Week 24
I finally got around to updating my portfolio, the last step of course adding this maternity series which I plan on doing once we hit week 30. So here is Porch-Light Pictures. Please take a look. More shoots scheduled this weekend.
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You know, if American Apparel used these images instead of those child porny ones, I might actually venture inside a store once in a while.
Again, beautiful.
I agree - you give this company class Cole. I really look forward to these photos every week.
Oh Hey! I TOTALLY agree with "Steam Me Up, Kid's" comment!!
You listening American Apparel??
Ha! I actually think if you look there is tons of diversity throughout their site and within their campaigns. Don't think for a second if we would have started this before week 17 that Cole wouldn't want to be wearing boy cut briefs and thigh highs for some of these pictures.
This was a hard one to shoot. We were not in the mood, but once we got started it was a great distraction and fun as always. She cut her bangs to if anyone noticed which I did not like at all until I saw these pictures. Now I'm all like WOW how cute!
I applied for 6 jobs today. 2 have been scams so far writing me back asking me to verify my citizenship by filling out their credit report.
Ain't that America!
Cuuuuuuuuuuuute. So darn pretty! :) I love this weekly update!
Isn't the progression awesome?! We use ear phones to let the lil man listen to lullabys... and Harry Potter!
What name did you decide?
So effin cute, like always. The scam companies didn't happen to be Nigerian, did they?
What is the tattoo on her side? I keep waiting to see it! Nosey readers must know :)
i DID notice her bangs. they look rocker chic pretty.
she looks marvelous!
Cole has the pregnancy glow!! Absolutely stunning as usual! Love that top!!
I think she's so damn cute.
great shots!!!
Great pics. My wife would still kill me if I did this too her.
Cole looks fantastic as always.
These images are beautiful. I've been watching the series for a few weeks. Truly awesome and they'll be cool to look back on.
Wow - fantastic photos and I love your blog, will immediately add you to my blog roll (have friends who are into photography so you may have a few of those stumbling in here!).
And I wanted to say thank you for the great suggestion about Baby Thor's picture on JB's blog. Feel free to download the pic from my blog or from www.thorwang.com - if we all club together, we're so much more likely to find him.
Big hugs,
Anna
If I can be guaranteed that I'll be as beautiful as Cole is when I'm pregnant, I wouldn't mind having one of them child-things.
I love these pictures of Cole. They are brilliant.
I wish I had kept such a good record of my pregnancy with Jamie. These are so beautiful.
i am so jealous! She looks aweseom pregnant. I'm not sayin I look bad after i have given birth but alas, i will live vicariously through Cole. I hope she doesn't mind. Would you ask her for me?
Gorgeous. Per usual.
Awesome. love the outfit. And I love your site too. Your pictures are gorgeous man!
they won't be nearly as good as yours, but can you tell my husband to take more photos to document this neato time? (love your site, the photos, everything!)
just found this blog and LOVE it. blessings for a beautiful pregnancy, labor and birth. have you heard of the film 'the other side of the glass?' it explores the american birth experience from a father's perspective.
beautiful...but what else did I expect? and I agree...AA should think about using these for their site instead of the ones they use now...
Gorgeous.
These pictures make me sad that I have so few pictures of myself pregnant. If I'm blessed enough to do it again someday I definitely will have it better documented pictorially.
i love this so much!!!! xoxo joanna
the oxford shirt dress has never looked better on anyone!!
this is gorgeous, absolutely stunning. what a great idea!!
This is such a delight!
Your blog is a must read.
This is the most amazing idea. Your kid is going to appreciate this so much when they're older!
This has to be the most beautiful blog I have ever had the pleasure to fall upon. Thank you for sharing your world with me. It made me smile.
I love this! What a great idea.
I just came across your blog and I love what you are doing with you and your wife's pregnancy! What a great idea and way to document the weeks! Thanks for sharing your work!
What a freaking awesome surprise to have so much attention put on this series today from so many sources. So thank you so much for all the sweet words for my family and you have no idea how much we appreciate this right now. All the love in the universe indeed.
These pictures are amazing!
Like I said, ROCK STAR!!
this is amazing.
hi...this is my first time...i live in the Caribbean and women here hide their beautiful baby-growing-inside-bellies...it's refreshing to see your lovely wife and her gorgeous belly!
i read your comment that you and Cole got news about your son...it seems the news is not the best...i am sorry to hear that, and whatever it is, you are in my prayers, may you be comforted and blessed and healed, in peace, from the Caribbean xoxo
You must be joking..it's funny how she is the perfect alt mom, minus the usual thirty or FORTY pounds of weight gain that the average american woman puts on. This is hilarious!! Thanks dude..this gives me hope of one day carrying my shallow hipster lifestyle all the way into fatherhood! It's all about love!!
These are incredible and Cole is so beautiful. Best wishes to your family!
bikeridda-
By "alt mom" you must mean, different, as in the fact that I have spent the past four and a half years going from doctor, to therapist, to specialist to find out how to help my special needs son.
Is that what you meant? I hope so.
Also, so you can sleep at night, when I was pregnant with my son I gained 40 lbs on my 5'1" frame. This time I made the choice not to eat like the "average American" and actually be healthy instead of guzzling down greasy non- nutritious food that has no value to my unborn child.
Thanks for being so sensitive to a pregnant ladies feeling jack ass.
I just found your blog - first visit, just read almost everything.
My Dad called my brother little buddy. He had the same big eyes heavily and darkly lashed as your little buddy. He was born when I was seven, I wanted a sister. For the next eighteen years my parents went to doctor after doctor, therapy after therapy. They were told by well meaning but clueless people (some people just don't know how to interact with you when you are dealing with something like this) that they needed stronger faith and he would be healed. They were told so much crap that made them feel overwhelmed and guilty.
He never really had a diagnosis that fit. His was a hodge podge of wacked wiring. He never spoke. He never dressed or fed himself. He learned to walk and stack things and show us what he wanted, and each of his accomplishments was met with the level one would celebrate winning the world series. His smile and laugh were his best form of communication. He defined our world growing up. He centered life. He would laugh at our entertaining antics we did for him. He adored his family and would light up when his parents and what would come to be nine siblings were around. He died two years ago for unknown reasons. It was the saddest time ever, and it still is. His death was ever so much harder on my parents than the realization that he wasn't 'normal'. There were over a thousand people at his memorial service.
Why was he born the way he was? Why did he have such a hard life ? Why did he die so young? We don't know. I do know that at his memorial service my dad said that: "there were many many years of questions and prayers for a miracle. Now we see that the miracle has happened in us, our lives were changed in ways that they never would have been if it hadn't been for a little boy with a big big smile and sparkling eyes who never said a word"
Where you and your wife are at is hellish. I grew up seeing my parents cry all the time. Crying out to God, Why? He wasn't going to do any of the things that parents hope and dream for their child. He would need to be woken and bathed and dressed and fed every day. Some days he would have seizures. Some days he would break things. Some days he would be so frustrated and no one would no why. I don't know if it got easier for them maybe just more a fact of life. We would never ever have traded him for a 'normal' model.
So I guess all I am trying to say is enjoy the hellish lows and the spectacular ups of this journey it will change your life. It will make you feel things that you never imagined. My parents would give a limb to have all the work and care of my brother back. You will love like never before and so will everyone around him.
Much love and best wishes to your family and little buddy.
P.S. My mom had eight babies at home and my sisters and I are headed down the same path....best wishes.
"this gives me hope of one day carrying my shallow hipster lifestyle all the way into fatherhood! It's all about love!!"
this is anonymous from the Caribbean...bikeridda has got to be freakin kidding. shallow hipster lifestyle? have you met these people? been with them every time they made hundreds of visits to numerous doctors? stayed with her when her back hurt? held their sons' hand when things go wrong? in any part of the world you are what is called an "a**hole"...man up and apologize buddy. and love? look it up, until you get the meaning, do your unborn child a favour and don't procreate...one of you is enough. jeeze.
I just wanted to say it is sweet to want to get upset about a comment but I don't want any focus to go to bad energy. I shouldn't have approved the comment but I figured why not let the dude say his thing and move on.
I have to say out of all of the traffic to have one smartass comment is pretty amazing. In the future just write a hateful email. They are more fun and that way we can write back and forth for awhile.
Thanks to everyone that has stopped thru and left comments. This series has been such a great source of happiness for Cole and I we never ever would have guessed that people would like it so much. We are really scratching our heads trying to figure out what she will wear come the final weeks.
We have some ideas and yes it is AA :)
I can't even being to tell you how beautiful your blog is and how excited I am to have found it! I am currently 16 weeks pregnant and have a graphic designer husband - we are kicking ourselves for not doing something like this! it is all just so beautiful! congratulations and your beautiful, growing family.
you guys are so wonderful!!!!! and about negative comments, every blogger i know gets negative comments sometimes. i get them probably once a week. they're always upsetting, even though you know they're meaningless. ps. this always helps... :)
http://www.doubletakesblog.com/2009/01/haters-gonna-hate.html
absolutely beautiful. nice work.
these are just the sweetest thing ever.
Do you know your blog was shown at Notcot.org? Maybe that's why you have so many new visitors :) I for one, saw it at notcot first.
And have been locked in since then.
I find your words so relaxing for some strange reason. They are full of honesty... and feelings. I LOVE IT. Btw, the pictures of the belly.. most awesome-est idea ever! I love the ambience in each and everyone of them. I'm sure your kid will love them when he sees them in the future.
Oh!! you should maybe try taking one of her weekly pictures from her other side? so we can see her tattooed belly! awesome'ness! So rockin'
This is a neat concept, but the American Apparel advertising intrusion kind of irked me. I know everyone has to make money, so I understand...but there's something upsetting to me about this very personal message to your unborn child being used to market hipster clothing.
Just a thought. If the company wants to pay you to show pictures of the baby after it's born, maybe think twice about how the kid is going to feel about that one day...I know I'd feel used if my childhood memories were being turned into profit.
brilliant series! i'm looking forward to the evolution...
Wow, beautiful!
Have you sent these to American Apparel? Are you making money off of these shots? They're gorgeous!
it weaves like a story, reflects such a great magnitude of excitement and expectations! keep us posted :)
Your wife looks absolutely beautiful in this picture, I think it's such a wonderful thing you're doing...
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