Zia Turns Three and a Little Mermaid!

Our Ate Zia turns three today! She's my brother-in-law's daughter who is just a week older than Matti.

When I think about it, I find it amazing, her mother didn't know she was pregnant but there were signs however, she was about to get married at that time so she thought the signs she was experiencing were just due to the butterflies in her stomach as she was getting married.

Now, my husband and I were not actually expecting to be pregnant at the same time but a few days after the wedding of my brother-in-law, we traveled to South Korea and it was there that I had signs of nausea and all streetfood smelled really bad!

While in Korea, we were told about the news that my sister-in-law is pregnant. And so after our trip, I took a pregnancy test as well, and there, it was confirmed that we were also pregnant!

And so, we consider Zia and Matti as siblings, we had the same OB too, and gave birth in the same hospital. But I was just a week behind. It still amazes me!

Three years had passed and Zia is now turning three. Matti will turn three as well the next week and I am always happy to take photos of this little girl who wished to be a little mermaid! She had her tail and top and was really happy to pose for the pictorial. It was in fact really quick as we know the tail is quite heavy when wet.

Unlike Matti, Zia is always cooperative during shoots like this. The first time I took photos of her was her pre-birthday. We also celebrated it with her in Oslob in 2021. On her second birthday, we were not able to go as well as today but the in-laws are coming for Matti's birthday next week so we are excited for that.

Going back to the shoot, actually, this was taken in May when we had our trip to Hale Manna. We all know that we won't be able to go home to Oslob comes July so we decided to just take photos of her in advance, it's just a two months difference and it won't really look obvious that the pictorial happened earlier.

The photos were taken with a Sony A73 with an 85mm lens. Watch the video for motion!