I got an email from Riley’s parents about a month ago, telling me about their baby girl due in January.  They live 3 hours away so I told them to check back in when the baby was born and I’d make the trip down to visit!  Well, Riley had her own plan and made her appearance Christmas day, the same birthday as her mommy!  So I gladly packed up the car and headed down this week to catch her at her tiniest.  She has the sweetest little bowtie lips and great disposition.  Can’t wait to see how she grows!  Thanks for inviting me into you home during these precious first days.

I love her scrunched up little mouth in this one:

In a perfect world, Riley would have had an older sister named Charlie, but Charlie decided she was too good for this world and will have to watch over Riley from heaven.  We photographed Riley with one of Charlie’s stuffed animals so the two “teddy bears” could spend some time together.  Doesn’t get much sweeter than this: