Cake Smash! Baby E.

Happy first birthday to beautiful Baby E! All dressed in pink and surrounded by her family, everyone was poised to absorb her first reaction to her lovely cake. Which, it turns out, she had no interest in! She seemed to enjoy the balloons more at first. 

Eventually though, with a little coaxing from her dad and her favourite tune playing loudly on an ipod neatly hidden in the middle of the cake (that would be her mom's brilliant idea!), Baby E finally dared to play in the icing - with her fingers AND toes! 

This was my first ever cake smash shoot so I learned a lot from Baby E on the fly. Namely, that if baby is covered in icing, everyone is covered in icing! Mom and dad both had beautiful works of icing art on their clothes by the end of our time together. There were lots of laughs, "ooh's" and "catch her quick!" 's (when she started to make for the couch) from those gathered. Thank you Schmaltz family for allowing me this hallmark moment in your lives.  It will remain one of my favourite photography moments for a long time to come.