Celebrating with a Cake Smash! (Is he seriously ONE already??) ~ Vancouver, WA

Last year I had the honor of documenting Kaiden’s birth story. I’ve photographed his mama several times and was very excited when she asked me to be at the hospital with her to photograph her son’s birth. You can read all about how bad-ass this woman was (is!) and I was absolutely pumped to work with them again and get to see this little guy a full year later! (I seriously can’t believe that it’s already been over a year!)

We met at Hockinson Meadows Community Park (one of my favorite places for nature-based sessions!) for some Mickey Mouse inspired photos of the family, and a wonderfully mess cake smash in the park!

Kaiden had fallen asleep in the car on the way over to the park… so was a bit reluctant to wake up for the family shots…

But, after awhile we got him to perk up for some sweet shots of him getting loved on by his family. He’s got a pretty amazing big brother who follows directions really well, too… Bro was totally on top of it when I told him, “Let Kaiden control hold the balloon, but just make sure that your face isn’t behind it!” LOL

After a couple of individual photos of the birthday boy in his Mickey duds, it was time to move on to the cake smashing. When my son turned One he was super not into the cake and refused to touch it… until we put Cheerios on top.(and buried them in the frosting a bit). Once he got a taste of that suger, it was a COMPLETELY different story. Kaiden’s cake experience was similar. ;) Once he got a bit of that blue frosting on his tongue, he was golden… even stripped off his suspenders so that they wouldn’t impede on his mobility and then did a big of a Godzilla cake takeover. LOL

Cake smashes are so much fun! Let me know if you have a little one coming up on a milestone birthday and let’s do it! OH! I ALSO do “cake smash” sessions for milestone birthdays for MOM, too… ;)