Ellie’s daycare has been learning about music all week, and today they focused on hip hop, rap, and rhyming. This is the rap they came up with; each kid had to create a line about one of the other kids. Continue reading Ellie’s Daycare Rap
Ellie was very excited to don the children’s choir robe for her first performance. Ellie’s First Choir Performance from Jeff Carlson on Vimeo. (Updated with HD version.) Continue reading Ellie’s First Church Choir Performance
I also want to share this from Ellie’s daycare, which made me beam. (The people she drew are her teachers.) Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s now finally summer in Seattle, both terms of the calendar and the weather. We bought an inflatable pool for the occasion, which Ellie enjoyed skipping around in. Here’s a quick video. A Shark in Your Bathtub from Jeff Carlson on Vimeo. Continue reading Summer, Poolside
Ellie Dance Recital 2012 from Jeff Carlson on Vimeo. Continue reading Ellie’s Dance Recital
I’m the “photographer” in the family, but Kim routinely grabs photos that take my breath away. This is Ellie resting in the Black Sun sculpture in Volunteer Park. (Be sure to view it in the Lightbox mode at Flickr.) Continue reading Ellie in Black Sun
Sunday was a busy day for Ellie. She started with the birthday party of her friend Max, and then followed that up with a new adventure: an hour of rock climbing with her neighborhood buddy Logan! We went to Stone Gardens in Ballard, where Ellie and Logan were outfitted to climb with the assistance of … Continue reading Ellie Rocks at the Climbing Gym
“The red stripe is where the kitty shoots fire. That’s what makes smoke alarms go off.” Continue reading Fire Shooting Kitty
January is ending with a burst of travel for us all. Kim went to Montana for a long weekend to visit our friend Shannon, while Ellie and I flew to Sacramento to see Susan (“Deppa”) and Ron at the farm in Dixon. Ellie will stay here for the week while I’m at the Macworld|iWorld conference … Continue reading Ellie at the Farm
