Today, we journeyed to the windward side for Baby Champuru’s newborn photo session with the awesome Lisa Hoang of Windwardskies Photography. As newbie parents, Hubby and I are still a little uncertain about handling the baby, but Lisa is an old pro with infants and children. She dealt with Baby Champuru’s fits of fussiness with ease and posed her in the most adorable props. I can’t wait to see the result!

While Lisa was setting up the next shot, I took a quick picture of baby as she waited patiently for her next photo op. She was just too precious not to steal a shot. (Sorry, Lisa!)

We were out of the house for six hours today and baby handled the long outing quite well. Shortly after we got her in the car seat for the ride home, she started crying hard — with actual tears, not just dry-eyed wailing. I hadn’t seen her cry so violently before and was alarmed. Hubby pulled the car over to check to make sure nothing was pinching her on the car seat and that it was secured properly and wasn’t too tight. Satisfied that she wasn’t in pain, we started the drive back home again. Since we hadn’t eaten lunch yet (it was nearly dinner by this time), we decided to drive-thru at a nearby McDonald’s. In the parking lot, I checked her diaper and, lo and behold, a marvelously massive poop greeted me. I’m still not quite comfortable changing doo-doo diapers, but managed to do a quick and clean change in the backseat of my car. I suppose when it’s time to step up, the maternal instinct actually does kick in — just like everyone says it does.