Like many other  mums, I take tons of snapshots of my girls every month. I like documenting their day-to-day lives and always look back very fondly at those thousands of photos at the end of each year! But birthday are quite special and I like to have more than just snapshots of those big milestones – a ‘proper’ portrait shoot is in order on those occasions (not that they are particularly fussed at the moment – but they will be happy to have these portraits of themselves one day, hopefully!).

It was one of these occasions just a couple of weeks ago, when my little Maya turned two years old.  Like many children her age, she doesn’t really enjoy ‘posing’ (or being told what to do, for that matter!), so I chose to take her on a new activity that I knew she’d love – strawberry picking! So off we went to the local PYO farm, punnet in hand, exploring rows upon rows of plants carrying juicy strawberries. As you can tell from the photos below, this worked  beautifully! These shots are really ‘her’ to a tee, they show her bright and inquisitive look that I love so much, and what’s best – no tantrums were had at any point of our visit (well, maybe when it was time to go home!).

So here she is – cheeky Miss Maya at two years old.

And my eldest, who really was not in the mood 🙂