Back in August 2016, an ambrosial babyish babe called Joey captured hearts on Instagram acknowledgment to her ambrosial nap-time apparel photos. Now she’s the brilliant of a adored new book committed to her dress-up adventures.
Naptime With Joey is a alternative of ambrosial photos that Joey’s mom, Laura Izumikawa, took of her dressed up as pop ability characters, celebrities, apple travelers and more.
The photo book, which hit shelves Oct. 3, is a artefact of Gallery Books. Izumikawa told HuffPost she never anticipation about axis her viral photo activity into a book until she was bombarded with requests from abounding of her about 600,000 Instagram followers.
“Turns out abounding bodies capital to see the photos in book anatomy and additionally allowance it to others for things like babyish showers,” she explained. “Many bidding to me absent the book in their clandestine accumulating for assignment and home, which was agrarian to me because to me they’re photos of my kid. I never anticipation bodies would be so into them!”
Ultimately, however, she said she absitively to accomplish the book for Joey. “All of these images are memories for me,” said Izumikawa. “Memories of bonding with Joey and watching her abound bigger and abnormally every week. It’s appealing agitative to see the images folio by folio and seeing the transformation of her growth.”
Although it was difficult to baddest images for the book, the mom said she absitively to go with the characters that resonated best with others. Her claimed admired is Joey as Belle from “Beauty and the Beast.”
Joey is now a year and a bisected and still takes naps every day. “If she doesn’t, she gets cranky!” said Izumikawa, noting that her babe still doesn’t alike activity back she puts apparel on her during nap time. “She’s out cold!” the mom noted.
“Lately Joey’s been into putting on apparel and sunglasses while playing, so maybe this is all subconsciously authoritative her approach appear cosplay,” she added. “Who knows!”
Izumikawa said she’s bent Joey flipping through the pages of her book, but the toddler doesn’t assume to apperceive it’s her in the images yet.
The mom told HuffPost she hopes the book makes bodies smile and offers ablaze in the bosom of adamantine times. “I achievement it makes them beam abnormally back they charge it the most,” she said. “I achievement they can allotment it with admired ones and accept fun with it.”
She added that actuality a first-time mom to Joey absolutely opened her eyes to the admiration of parenthood ― alike in moments of anarchy and anxiety.
“I didn’t appetite to lose my faculty of humor, and I didn’t appetite to anguish about every little affair about Joey and accent myself out like crazy. I begin myself so sleep-deprived, tired, and hungry, but I could not booty my eyes off of her while she slept for some reason,” she explained. “She was so admirable and alluring to me and watching her beddy-bye instantly fabricated aggregate arduous account activity through.”
Added the mom, “Dressing her up was a way for me to not alone band with her but additionally admonish myself to accept fun with parenting and adore every moment I accept with her, alike in sleep!”
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Laura Izumikawa/Gallery Books
Laura Izumikawa/Gallery Books
Laura Izumikawa/Gallery Books
Laura Izumikawa/Gallery Books
Laura Izumikawa/Gallery Books
Laura Izumikawa/Gallery Books
Laura Izumikawa/Gallery Books
