One Year Later

When talking with family and friends who are familiar with Linden's story and this blog, one of the most common things we hear is how moved people were by the photo of Linden holding my wedding ring in the NICU. It's difficult to imagine how small a 2 lb. 13 oz. baby is and even though she didn't look very small to us, when I look back at this picture it's fun to see how much she has grown this first year.

Now, one year later, we wanted to be sure to re-create this photo in an effort to once again provide some illustration for how much our little bean has grown.
Linden's eating solid foods and is very curious, so the trick this time was to figure out how to photograph her with my ring when she was least likely to pop it into her mouth. Not sure if that time would ever come, we tied dental floss to the ring so that if she did try to bite it we could end the experiment.

It's difficult to manually focus a camera on such a fast-moving object and equally challenging for an auto-focus camera to fulfill its duty.

We finally wised up and decided to snap a couple pictures right before we put Linden to bed, when she was too sleepy for any fast movements.