{"id":2948,"date":"2012-03-08T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2013-01-10T21:04:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T03:04:55","slug":"sleep-my-littlest-baby-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/sleep-my-littlest-baby-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"sleep | my littlest baby boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS is the reason that I wanted to learn how to use my big ol&#8217; fancy camera.\u00a0 I had a baby almost 4 years ago, and life started speeding up.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0\u00a0Leo was growing up before my very eyes.\u00a0 He was just so incredibly beautiful, I wanted to record every little feature &#8211; his flawless skin, his big blue eyes, his every expression in every light.\u00a0 So my wonderful husband bought me a fancy camera for Christmas that year (a Nikon D90 with a kit lens).\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have any idea what DSLR meant, or what all those giant buttons did.\u00a0 But I <em>really<\/em> wanted to learn.\u00a0 And so I did. \u00a0And this is why. (I know it&#8217;s not a terribly original story, but it&#8217;s a true one.)<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a few years&#8230;..\u00a0Max was still asleep when I went in his room this morning.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been dying to get some images the way he sleeps: left thumb in his mouth, snuggling a lovie in his right hand, crazy long eyelashes resting on his cheeks.\u00a0 Little angel. (Photography note: It was actually pretty dark, and I\u00a0had to crank up my IS0 to about 6400 and slow down my shutter speed to about 1\/30 for these shots.\u00a0 At f\/1.4.\u00a0 So they&#8217;re not the crispiest, but I couldn&#8217;t care less.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sleeping a few extra minutes so Mommy could take your pictures, Max-o.\u00a0 Love you.<br \/>\n<a title=\"max dennis sleeping in 3-8-2012 copy by zoedennis, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zoedennis\/6818952024\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7051\/6818952024_085341b7b6_o.jpg\" alt=\"max dennis sleeping in 3-8-2012 copy\" width=\"900\" height=\"676\" \/><\/a><a title=\"max sleeping in 03-08-2012 copy by zoedennis, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zoedennis\/6818952064\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7207\/6818952064_a7d0284c4b_o.jpg\" alt=\"max sleeping in 03-08-2012 copy\" width=\"900\" height=\"597\" \/><\/a><a title=\"max sleeping in his crib 3-8-2012 copy by zoedennis, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zoedennis\/6965073967\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7210\/6965073967_4b4db6e39c_o.jpg\" alt=\"max sleeping in his crib 3-8-2012 copy\" width=\"900\" height=\"676\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS is the reason that I wanted to learn how to use my big ol&#8217; fancy camera.\u00a0 I had a baby almost 4 years ago, and life started speeding up.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0\u00a0Leo was growing up before my very eyes.\u00a0 He was just so incredibly beautiful, I wanted to record every little feature &#8211; his flawless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[353,389,19,390,185,69,611,18,391],"class_list":{"0":"post-2948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal","8":"tag-baby","9":"tag-crib","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dennis","12":"tag-max","13":"tag-mine","14":"tag-personal","15":"tag-plano","16":"tag-sleeping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zoedphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}