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Letters to our Daughters | End of the Year

Boulder Lifestyle Photography Letters to Chloe

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Dearest Chloe- This month has literally flown by and I am loving our new normal.  I am getting so much work done on Tuesday & Thursday mornings while you are in school with teachers & friends.  When I arrived to pick you up today I made sure to snap a picture of you in circle […]

Letters to Our Daughters | Our first time apart

boulder lifestyle photographer colie james photography letters nov 2013

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Dear Chloe- I started to write this month’s letter weeks ago.  I wanted to finally write THE letter where I explain what I miracle it is to have you and how hard it was to get you.  It is a particularly difficult letter to write without crying.  However I just got home from my first […]

Letters to Our Daughters | A big girl now

boulder family photography letter to chloe october 2013

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Chloe- You are such a big girl now. If you had asked me two weeks ago when I thought I was going to be able to leave you at preschool alone my response would have been ‘hopefully by the end of the year’. However, last week you had your first entire day at Preschool without […]

Letters to Our Daughters | The New Normal

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  Dearest Chloe- Well I wrote about our first week experience at preschool but things are not getting any better.  You love to go to school and play with your “teachers and friends” but only if mommy stays in the room.  We have tried having mommy stay part of the day but you are still […]

Letters to Our Daughters | Happy 3rd Birthday

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Dear Chloe- You are a big girl now. A three-year that goes pee pee in the potty. A three-year old that thinks taking a bath is what you do after you go potty. A three-year old that demands frozen pancakes morning, noon, and night. A three-year old that thinks Target is just a really big […]

letters to our daughters | july 2013

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Dearest Chloe- In less than a month you will be 3 and I haven’t even planned a party.  So many things have changed in my life over the last 4 years to get us all here today.  Daddy and I took that trip to Hawaii to kick start our 30’s and the complicated process of […]

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