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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.

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.

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.

d is for ducky

charo — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:50:00 +0000

Ducky has been Ellie’s closest companion since she was an infant! More photos coming of Miss Bean and Ducky, and the *book*!

four years old.

charo — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:39:55 +0000

gorgeous, isn’t she?

dolphins

charo — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:49:08 +0000

I honestly don’t know why or how, but as soon as Ellie discovered mini-bagels, she’s called them “dolphins”. Even after visiting Sea World in San Diego and seeing real dolphins, up close and personal, she still calls mini-bagels “dolphins.”

Which I find uncontrollably cute. We even write “dolphins” on our grocery lists.

But this morning, as I grabbed her “eat fast” breakfast on our way out the door to preschool, I started wondering what her teachers would think, since I’m not there to translate.

“What did you have for breakfast, Ellie?”
“Bananas and dolphins.”
“…”