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all about snowmans!

charo — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:54:01 +0000

It snowed around 5″ in Wilmington NC last week! After Ellie built her very first snowman, she asked me to take some video of her. I can’t help it, I think this is the cutest thing in the entire world.

one tooth down…

charo — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:21:52 +0000

So not only is she writing little love notes to me, she’s also losing her teeth. Already. And do you see that spray of freckles across her nose? And the beauty mark above her lip?

SIGH.

it doesn’t get much better than this

charo — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:01:14 +0000

Although I’ll admit that watching her grow up so quickly is a little gut-wrenching, and for purely selfish reasons. Ellie handed this note to me a few minutes ago.

happy thursday from ellie!

charo — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:58:48 +0000

snow day!

charo — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:39:20 +0000

It snowed a whole INCH in Wilmington on Tuesday! Absolutely treacherous conditions, causing schools to close and leaving us stranded in our homes to watch the snowfall and hope for the best.

Ellie was THRILLED – she’s never seen snow, and I had been planning on a trip to the mountains for skiing this winter (a surprise broken big toe might screw up those plans…). Sometime Tuesday afternoon, Ellie asked me to grab the camera and take pictures of her in the snow. We didn’t have enough snow to make snowballs, snowmen, or snow angels… but she caught a few flakes on her tongue and danced in it like Winona Ryder in Edward Scissorhands. Cool kid.

Here are a few shots from Ellie in the blizzard…

election day and the bean

charo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:05:26 +0000

In 14 years she’ll be old enough to vote.

Today, she’s just enjoying a day off of school.

ellie’s first pumpkin

charo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:26:31 +0000

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays, right behind Cinco de Mayo. So I was pretty pumped about carving a deliciously spooky jack o’ lantern with the bean this year. She had never carved a pumpkin before… so she had no idea that it was so MESSY. She opted out of the cleaning part, but we decided she was the best person to design the spooky face. I carefully carved it exactly as she drew it, pig nose and all.

Happy Halloween!

a break from the grind…

charo — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:57:59 +0000

after a VERY long day of updating all my image galleries on my website, it was time for a break.

ICE CREAM!!!!!

Ellie flirted her way into a pineapple-coconut-something-something sherbet, and she picked out a scoop of pistachio for me. After all these weeks of nonstop travel, shooting, and editing… it was pretty cool to hang out at Baskin Robbins with the bean, talking about how tall grandpa is and how he’s probably at least twenty-one years old. Good times.

Beachy Bean!

charo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:08:27 +0000

My BFF Kim brought her boys to Myrtle Beach this summer to play in the surf, eat lowcountry food, and see the (now bankrupt!) Hard Rock Amusement Park! I brought Ellie down to Myrtle on one of the days they were down, and Kim got these fabulous *disposable camera shots* of the Bean playing in the ocean (see? a good photographer can take a great shot no matter how crappy the equipment!!!):

I hope we can do this again sometime soon… the beaches in Wisconsin just aren’t the same!

Chookie and the Bean

charo — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:14:21 +0000

One of my closest, dearest friends, Kiki, loves to make funky little dolls and cool clothes out of socks, old shirts, towels, whathaveyou. She’s really talented and quirky and a little bizarre, which is why I love her dearly.

Last Christmas, she made an “Ugly Sock Monster” for Ellie. She called him Syd, and sent him home with me when I went up to visit her last December. Here he is in all his ugly glory, at a diner in donwtown Richmond, with terribly unflattering on-camera flash on a point & shoot.

Ellie opened the package that Syd was in, and she tossed him aside. She just didn’t really dig him. I saved him from being tossed out with all the wrapping paper and bows, and put him on the top of her shelf as decoration, thinking maybe someday she’d notice him and want to know where he came from.

Almost a year went by. Every so often I’d catch a glimpse of Syd on her shelf, but he never moved, never got played with. He was lonely. Ellie can be merciless.

Then one night, we were heading off to bed, and she says “WAIT! I gotta have Chookie!” She runs up to her room and comes back – with SYD. I was floored! That night, she fell asleep with Duckie in one hand, and Chookie (Syd) in the other.

The next day, she carried him around with her all day long. She told me that his full name was Deer Coppola Beer Chocolatito, “but you can call him Chookie.”

That night, I managed to get a picture of her sleeping with Chookie. Awwwwww.