6/52
eloise: I didn’t take many photos at all this week. You came down with the worst cough and cold you’ve ever had. It’s been a very rough fews days and nights. This photo was one I took for your 18 month shoot. You can see the cold already creeping up in your glassy eyes and rosy cheeks. Get better soon little one.
-joining Jodi for the 52 project.
5/52
eloise: An action shot for this week’s portrait (because it’s getting harder and harder to catch just your face these days). We were back at the beach this week. It was cooler this time around, finally feeling a bit like January. These days you have been very busy, very sensitive and needing to be very close to Mama at all times. Except when I take you to the beach. You run carefree. Your face lights up as you chase the birds and run down to the waters edge. You squish your toes in the sand and exclaim, “more, more, more!”
-joining the lovely Jodi for the 52 project!
4/52
eloise: An afternoon at the park. It’s a joy watching you explore and play day after day.
-joining JODI for the 52 project!
3/52
eloise: We are having a heat wave in the middle of winter. This week it got up to 90 degrees in our little beach town! We made the best of the dry heat and went to the beach- twice! You are really enjoying the beach these days. You grab handfuls of sand and run around wanting me to chase you. You are cautious by the water and I am thankful you haven’t wanted to get in yet. Just before sunset you sat down, breathed it all in and gave me a knowing smile. Now if only we can get Daddy to like the beach?
– joining Jodi for second yearly installment of the 52 project!
2/52
eloise: Run free wild child! The Santa Ana winds make you giggle and a day out with your grandparents is always a day full of joy for you!
1/52
eloise: It’s the first week of January. This is the first portrait of the New Year. You’ll be seventeen months this coming week. You love climbing up on the couch now (what you did before I snapped this photo). You love your “Pink Baby (PB)”. You are still working on getting those teeth in. You are ridiculous adorable, if I do say so myself.
“a portrait of Eloise, once a week, every week in 2014”
* I’m thrilled to be partaking in Jodi’s 52 project for a second year now. Oh what fun the first year was and what a memento we have with our 52 project book. I’m looking forward to documenting Ellie’s weeks this way and looking forward to how I will develop with my photography skills this year as well.
A special book made up of 52 weeks of photos arrived today! It’s such a lovely keepsake and I’m so glad I decided to go with a bigger book* than I usually go with. I spent one very, very late night working on putting this book together so we could have it for the New Year. I did not have anything organized prior to the other night and will do that very differently for the next 52 Project. My disorganization sure did make for a late night of cutting and pasting and retyping and trying to find the matching photos. But, the book got done, Ellie loves it and we spent the day enjoying the photos and the memories of last year.
* After much deliberation (or lack of time and organization, I went with Shutterfly (and their basic model in a 10 x 10 size … I wanted the photos to be the focus). Originally, I was planning on going with some one different and a little more artsy, but Shutterfly was easy and quick, I had worked with their products before and I had two coupons too (you can’t beat coupons). I’m very happy with the product.
52/52
eloise: fifty-two weeks… you are a week shy of seventeen months old. A different smile captured. A little more child-like and less baby-like. A year of joy, watching you grow and develop and flourish. I love you, child of mine.
– joining Jodi for the last time this year with the 52 project!
51/52
eloise: a warmish December evening, just before dark. You sat on this rock and turned toward me, almost as if posing for the shot. We ran down this beach twice this week. You loved every minute of it until we had to go. A California beach baby for sure.
-joining jodi for the 52 project!
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