February was a month of firsts and a month of challenges.
First cinema trip (Penguins of Madagascar - brilliant!) and first shoes.
Photographs in the cinema and the challenge of very little light and without annoying the half term cinema goers. Photographs in the shoe shop... Tricky when it transpires that your daughter doesn't like wearing shoes. At all.
But here we are. Dates with my Daughters.
Our sweet baby girl turned one yesterday... I can barely find the words to describe how much happiness and joy she has brought into our lives this past year, or explain where that year has gone. She lives up to the meaning of her name, and is just such fun to be around.
So to celebrate, I took her to my favourite window.
I'd taken my own maternity photographs in front of this window last year and spent a lot of time here while on maternity leave so it seemed the only place to go... I am hugely grateful to the lovely Beryl for allowing me to take a bunch of helium filled balloons into an English Heritage property and trusting me not to lose them to the incredibly high ceilings...
The weather outside kept changing its mind and the light kept changing dramatically through these huge old windows, and it really was freezing cold, so we had to work fast. Lowen wore the most gorgeous romper from the Little Green Radicals which inspired my balloon colours!
Here are some highlights...
