Kimberly Schumm Photography: My own newborn session -- My sweet Drew

It has been awhile since my last post, but in my defense I've been pretty busy with a newborn in the house! My little Drew Martin was born on December 9th, and I have spent the past 5 weeks falling completely in love with the little guy! He is SUCH a mellow baby -- I think he still sleeps about 23 hours a day, but when he is actually awake he is so happy. I love that he has entered the smiling stage already. His brother was so serious for the first year, so it's nice to have a smiley kiddo this early in the game!

I had all these grand plans for the pictures that I wanted to take once my little Monkey was born, but I had failed to take into consideration that I might not be feeling up to taking them for the first couple weeks. I felt so fortunate to have a much smoother recovery this time around (even though this one was a c-section), but you still just don't feel up to moving around as much I typically do in a photo session for the first couple weeks. It certainly helped that Drew is such a sleepy baby because it allowed me a little extra time to get in some of those sweet curled up little newborn pictures.

I'm so grateful to be home with the boys instead of thinking about my return to work this time around. I just look at each day with them as a gift and I am loving the adjustment from one boy to two. Life is definitely GOOD in the Schumm household!

Here are some pictures of the new little man in my life from his first month!

Drew already LOVES his big brother -- Benjamin can calm him down in an instant by just singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" to him when he starts crying. I have a feeling Benjamin will have a little shadow as soon as Drew is mobile! It's funny, because Drew is the spitting image of Benjamin when Benjamin was his age, but as similar as they are in appearance they are almost opposites in temperament!