Wise words from our daughter Ella in a video shot by my mother-in-law while Jess and I were away out our retreat this past weekend:
I love how Ezra is so tech-savvy that he thinks whatever device Grandma is recording with should automatically connect him to his parents!
I know it’s cliche to say it, but I have to: I can’t believe I have a 6 year old!
Ella turned 6 just yesterday, April 23rd. She asked weeks ago that we have a family meal at Olive Garden for her birthday, so we made plans to do just that. We picked her up from school and drove up to Mechanicsburg. My in-laws were able to join us before they hit the road back to Indiana.
We had a great time!
Here’s my poorly-captured and poorly-sync’d video from my phone:
Some photos from the night:
Tonight our little Kindergartner had her first-ever (non-church-stage) public solo. (check out the photo online photo album)
She knocked it out of the park.
And I nearly threw up.
It’s amazing the amount of emotion that surged through my body the instant she stepped down off the top row and readied herself for the big moment.
Here’s the song as recorded from the front row (yep, I’ve become ‘that dad’ and I’m proud of it!) –
Yesterday (Saturday) I was finishing up our bulletin for this weekend and wondering what music we would have for the offertory. From my office, I quickly sent a message to Jess asking her if she thought our daughter Ella would be willing to sing her first-ever solo at church. I suggested she ask Ella if she’d sing “Jesus Loves Me”. Almost instantly Jess messaged me back saying that literally moments before my message came across Ella said she was going to ask me if she could sing “Jesus Loves Me” at church the next day! I love how God works these sorts of things out in His timing! On top of the timing-wow, Ella also exclaimed that she wanted to sing the song TO Jesus – another wow-factor for us as her parents.
Fast forward to our offering time this morning at church:
It was a proud moment for Mommy and Daddy (and Jess’ parents, too, who were visiting)…
Ezra, being in the nursery, missed out on Ella’s solo during the service, so when he broke free from the nursery and ran into the sanctuary after service and asked “Ella sing yet?” He was bummed that he missed the song. We quickly asked him if he wanted to sing, too, and after Ella offered to sing with him, we filmed the following after our congregation had gone home and we had the sanctuary to ourselves:
Another proud moment for us all!
Ella and I finally took time this afternoon to film another “Science with the Sheets'” episode!
Check it out here:
The “Frixion” pens we used are available on Amazon here. (you KNOW you want some)
Our other Science with the Sheets’ videos:
DRY ICE – http://bit.ly/ku8ELy
GLACIER GAK – http://bit.ly/o8IIjb
FLYING TEA BAGS – http://bit.ly/dJ3SSR
RAINBOW MILK – http://bit.ly/hZdhMW
