First Birthday Twin Cake Smash

I can be the Queen of Procrastination sometimes - and I was here.  I got to do this shoot a month ago and I'm finally sitting down to blog about it.  Shame shame.

I am so glad that my first cake smash photo shoot was with my friends' twin 1 year olds.  It has been a great year watching them grow.  It went by so fast for me, I can't imagine how fast it went for her and her husband!

But that's what babies do.  They grow faster than we can imagine and before we know it we have a kindergartener....a middle schooler....a high schooler (guess which one I have this year!). 

Since I was lucky enough to also photograph this darling duo's 1st birthday party, I had access to the leftover decorations from that party and used it in their backdrop design.  I wish I had lowered the streamers, but I had placed them high to keep babies from tearing them down - an unfounded fear. I'm sure the next cake smash shoot I do the baby will want to have nothing to do with the cake and everything to do with the decorations...

I made the cupcakes - a carrot cupcake with spiced cream cheese frosting - and they loved them, but probably the frosting more than the cupcake.  Frosting just squishes between the fingers so nicely.  Baby boy was very free with his grins at me, but baby girl made me work for it - but goodness were her grins worth that work.  Look at that cheeky baby grin!