One Month!

Colin is one month old today! Already!  I am going to take monthly birthday photos of Colin and I did the same thing for Scott as well. I propped Scott on the couch and made cute little signs with letters and numbers cut from magazines.  They were really adorable and for his 1st birthday I made a poster with all the photos printed in black and white.  I wanted to make the same memories for Colin but I decided to change it up a little bit.  I got this idea from a blog I like to read called Young House Love (http://www.younghouselove.com/photo-gallery-2/claras-weekly-photo-project/).  They used a different swatch of colorful fabric every week for their daughter's first year and photoshopped her age on a white onesie.  I loved the idea and decided to do something similar.  Although I will not take photos every week, I will do it every month and probably make a poster or a book for Colin's first birthday.  I use Picasa to edit my photos and although it it more limited than Photoshop with it's tools, I can basically do the same things for FREE! You can download Picasa here http://picasa.google.com/.  Here is the shot of the project the folks at Young House Love created for their daughter Clara...

and here are a few of the many shots I took of Colin before I chose my favorite to edit...

I think it will be fun choosing fabric every month and witnessing his growth over the year.  Anyone have ideas on what I could use the fabric for after I am finished with the photo shoots?  I bought a yard this time and I think it worked.  Hopefully a yard will be enough when he is a big, squirmy 11 month old!