Someone New.

   New experiences thrill my very soul!  I have a tendency to leap when given the opportunity to go somewhere or do something that I have never done before.  So when my cousin in northern Michigan proposed the idea of photographing the home birth of her fifth baby I unhesitatingly said, "Yes!"  I had never been present for a birth before, nor had I spent much time thinking about childbirth... at all... Actually I didn't even think it about it at the time.  My first thought was, "What a grand adventure!" and went my merry way!  A few months later I found myself in northern Michigan face to face with the fact that this baby was coming whether I was ready for him or not!  I understand that childbirth is a miracle of life and a beautiful thing, but to someone who has never been there for one excluding, of course, my own birth which I have no memory of, it is a bit daunting.  But in the grand name of adventure I put those thoughts to the side and settled in to wait for his arrival!  Ten days into my scheduled thirteen day trip the stubborn little man still had not come, and we began to worry that my journey would be wasted!  I don't know what changed his little mind, but he made a very hasty appearance at 4:30 a.m. of the eleventh day.  His dad called me 30 minutes after labor had started and I headed that direction, but in the 15 minutes it took me to grab my things and drive there Lucan Ambrose was born.  It was truly beautiful... I mean, I missed it... The labor, birth, and stuff... but the moments after the pain and struggle of childbirth were astounding.  There was a tiny human there with us... He was perfectly formed and new... and instantly so loved.  It was crazy... absolutely crazy... and magical. 

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“Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on the earth, for what they believe is what they will become.”
— Brooke Hampton
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I could not love these faces more!  

All for now... ;)