Two Years Old!!!

Brelin's birthday pictures at Garden's Park

Here is the last photo shoot I did on Spring Break. It was for Lisa's granddaughter who is turning 2 at the end of this month. This was a great day at the park! Everyone was nervous that Brelin wasn't going to be cooperative, so there were lots of props brought to keep her interest. I was ready to just click away to make sure we found the perfect shot. In the end, Brelin was great. We didn't really have any problems. She even was totally okay with walking around the park with me while GaGa (Lisa) and mommy and daddy were behind us.

When I got home I was surprised to find that my camera captured over 600 images of Brelin!! Most of the images weren't usable but I still had to sift through them all. I managed to trim it down to a nice 113 images for the family. Of course, I won't be sharing them all with you. But I have selected a few of my favorites.

Whitney had gotten the most adorable hat for Breliln to wear.

And boy, did she wear it wonderfully! 

 I brought an Easter basket with eggs, seeing as it was right before Easter.

Oh man, was that a good choice. Brelin loved playing with the eggs. At one point she even dumped the entire basket out.

 

So I am looking through all the images that I have, trying to find the best ones, and suddenly something dawned on me....Brelin reminds me of when I was her age. I am not saying that we look exactly alike, but there are definitely similarities.

Check out these two pictures of me, and see for yourself. The one is of me and my grandma!

              

Yep, that's me when I was 2 (on the right) and almost 3 (on the left). Like I said, not exact matches, but similar, pretty similar.

 Brelin and Gaga!

Changing outfits with mommy. Brelin didn't like the way the grass felt under her feet. Whitney was having a difficult time getting her to stand so that the outfit change could happen.

 Smelling flowers.

I think one of my favorite moments of the shoot was trying to get Brelin to smell the flowers. She didn't quite understand what we meant. She would hold the flower (not to her nose) and then make the smelling noise. We would keep telling her to smell it, because she wasn't doing it right, and she would look at us like, I am! Finally, her dad showed her how to bring the flower to her nose and smell, and we were able to get the shot we were looking for. It was great!

 I love the smile. She was having a blast running with the ribbon.

 Playground time. Getting ready to go up to the slide.

 Swings....a girl after my heart. I love the swings.

No wonder Lisa posts pictures of Brelin on facebook constantly.

You can't help but fall for this face.

I hope you enjoyed these pictures. It was really hard to choose just a few. Lisa asked me, "How am I supposed to pick one?" I just smiled and said, "Oh I know what you mean." 

Keep checking back for more posts. I have a few activities that the family did over break to share and there are a couple more shoots coming up. Like Brelin's 2nd birthday party!!

~Amy J. Gardner