Katie Rose, Photographer

Mommy was very tired. Mommy gets up most days at 5:30 am to get the four kids to school, ferries them to karate, and works hard too. So Mommy went upstairs for a short nap.

Stuffy Study #1 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #1 © Katie Rose Davis

Katie Rose, now six years old, knew Mommy needed her nap. When she was a little younger, Katie might have kept her mom from napping so she could play with her. If Katie had been sleepy, too, she would have snuggled in for a nap herself with mommy and her favorite blanket.

Stuffy Study #2 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #2 © Katie Rose Davis

But neither of these were the case. Katie Rose had an idea of what to do. Once her mommy had fallen sound asleep, she went and gathered all her stuffed animals (a/k/a “stuffies”) and brought them en masse up to her mom’s bedroom.

Stuffy Study #3 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #3 © Katie Rose Davis

Next, she went hunting for her mom’s iPhone. She found it in a side pocket of her mom’s purse. Heading back upstairs with the iPhone, she proceeded to arrange her stuffies in situ for portraiture, and used the iPhone camera to make a series of about 24 photos, ten of which you see here.

Stuffy Study #4 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #4 © Katie Rose Davis

No adults intervened, or were even aware of what Katie Rose was doing until after her mom woke up, when Katie Rose showed her the photos on her Mommy’s iPhone.

Stuffy Study #5 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #5 © Katie Rose Davis

This is a true story, and Katie Rose’s very first copyright notices. There will be a limited edition of prints (just kidding!).

Stuffy Study #6 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #6 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #7 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #7 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #8 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #8 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #9 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #9 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #10 © Katie Rose Davis
Stuffy Study #10 © Katie Rose Davis

This Post Has 3 Comments

  1. How very precious – you must be so proud of her!

  2. Thanks Ed, I am very proud of Katie and my other kids as well!

  3. Her approach looks both creative and systematic. Well, It sounds like one of her parents I met once. :-))
    Give Katie and the other kids a great “spider hug” on behalf of your italian friends.

    Mauro & family

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