Ellie Belle

Enjoying a little coffee with my Ellie Belle at Woods in Lynden after a hard day at school.

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Party favor blues. #CBCNorthsound

Ellie’s already sad that her New Year’s Eve party favors have broken down and are unusable. We had to explain the economics of annual celebrations: the manufacturers *want* us to buy more for *all* the parties! \O/

She was unimpressed.

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Preparing to Exhale. #CBCNorthsound

Another shot with Ellie under the lamp on New Year’s Eve.

I love what soft lighting does to her skin… the iPhone doesn’t really do her justice.

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A New Year’s Angel. #CBCNorthsound.

When our church hosted a New Year’s Eve party there were these nice little light stands used to illuminate a wall set up for Instagram photos.

Rather than take a bunch of photos against a wall, I had my kids stand right next to the lights—practically touching them—while I snapped a few pix with my iPhone.

I really like the results!

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And that’s a wrap! #CBCNorthsound

Our church, City Bible Church North Sound, hosted a New Year’s Eve party and we played a few rounds of “Minute to Win It!” We played the first round against two other families and our task was to wrap Ellie with a roll of toilet paper until the roll was empty.

A couple minutes and one very dizzy Ellie later, I’m pretty sure we all tied for first place.

Our prize was a plate full of victuals and a lot of fun.

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A short conversation with my daughter.

Ellie: Dad, can I have a normal life?

Me: You *have* a normal life!

Ellie: But I cry over raindrops that get lost in the rain.

Me: ♥♥♥

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The Many Faces of Ellie—One of Three.

Here’s a set of three images I captured of Ellie a few weeks back, when we visited AJ’s middle school for an IEP. The setup was perfect: indirect lighting, a playful mood, and no pestering brother immediately present! 🙂 This kiddo’s a keeper.

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The Many Faces of Ellie—Two of Three.

Here’s a set of three images I captured of Ellie a few weeks back, when we visited AJ’s middle school for an IEP. The setup was perfect: indirect lighting, a playful mood, and no pestering brother immediately present! 🙂 This kiddo’s a keeper.

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The Many Faces of Ellie—Three of Three.

Here’s a set of three images I captured of Ellie a few weeks back, when we visited AJ’s middle school for an IEP. The setup was perfect: indirect lighting, a playful mood, and no pestering brother immediately present! 🙂 This kiddo’s a keeper.

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The many faces of Ellie—triptych.

Little Juli is definitely a mamma’s girl. But this one, whoa, *this* kiddo has a serious case of daddygirlitis! Every day I return home from work I am guaranteed to receive an excited shout, “Daddy!!!”, a blur in my peripheral vision, and a ruining hug from this crazy, ferret-on-crack beauty. I love it—even when I sometimes have to sternly warn her to be careful because my hands are full.

Whenever our family sits for a meal, Ellie just *has* to sit next to Daddy. When we watch a movie, ditto (plus cuddles, tickles, and unending requests for me to rub her sore footsies, or rub out some random “growing pain” on her back. Naturally, I oblige. Even though I sometimes grumble, I nearly always oblige. How can I not?

Each of my relationships with my kids is unique, but I gotta say: there is nothing like a daughter who has a big, gruff Daddy tightly wrapped around her pinkie! If she could, Ellie would call dibs on my heart.

(I’ll post the individual, full panels from this collage later. I just wanted to get this one out there early, as a sort of teaser.)

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