I have the honor of participating in the Motherhood Collective this month, a blog circle featuring some pretty amazing photographers! We are all mommas wishing to capture our babies before the grow too big and we forget the little details. Be sure to click on the link at the end of the post to visit the next blog in the circle, and to see the beautiful images in the collective!

This entry is particularly special for me. It was inspired one day as I quietly crept into my baby’s room in the morning. He was just waking up, his eyes struggling to open against the sunlight pouring in through the windows. He turned to me and as I opened my arms he snuggled against my chest and held me tight. His head fit perfectly under my chin, and his little arms did their best to embrace me but they barely reached my back. As I held on tight to this little creature my heart melted and the rest of the world vanished.  All I could see was his little wisps of hair, all I could smell of his soft baby skin, all I could feel was his tiny heartbeat against mine. And in that moment this tremendous sadness came over me. Very soon this baby would no longer be a baby. He would not be tiny enough to fit perfectly in my arms. He would become a busy little boy who wouldn’t have two minutes to sit in my lap in the morning.  He. would. grow. up.  And that bittersweet thought broke my heart.

I desperately tried to tuck away those magical moments in my memory so that I could access them forever. I tried telling my baby to stay a baby, to stay little and tiny and soft.  I wanted to always remember what it felt like to hold him, to hug him and to and to wrap my arms around his entire body.  But they do grow, they grow and change so fast that often we don’t even realize it until one day we open our arms to hug them and they no longer fit in our laps. We long to sit and snuggle but they are too busy or to cool for such things.

Later that day I took my baby into the studio and tried my best to capture our last baby hugs. These images are probably the most precious images that I own. I will never get those moments back. My baby is changing into a little man with each day that passes.  Being able to look back at these pictures and re-live these moments  is worth the world to me. And I’m sure every mom reading this knows this feeling entirely.

To view the next entry in the Motherhood Collective please click HERE. You’ll be directed to the amazing Rebecca Joy Studios!

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