Daughter: "Sophie!"
Mom pauses...Daughter: "No, Mei Ai Zhen"
And thus begins the story of how a Mother and her child found each other from half a world away.
Miss Sophie literally explodes with happiness.
And her Mom, her single Mom, wanted to capture her at this age. She's just turned 5, she's on the cusp of Kindergarten and big girl-ness. So we wanted to seal in her sweet, exuberance before she grows into the next stage of her childhood. Luckily for me Mom likes twirling pictures, and Sophie loves to twirl.
We tried to make the shoot about Sophie. We really did.
But mostly she just wanted her Mama. Wanted to play with her, be with her, be photographed with her. And when her Mom is going it alone (something I so acutely admire), without a daily witness to the joys and trials, I was happy to get some pictures of them together. So Sophie can see her Mother's devotion.
But also, so Mom can see how much her daughter truly worships her and feels most at home wrapped in her arms.
