...Of Butterfly Kisses and Tutu

I can still remember the first time I saw her. She arrived with the funniest looking cone head. "Congratulations! She's a girl!" the doctor said to us as she handed this mucky tiny body to me. She blinked her big black eyes, staring intently at me. Studying me, just as I tried to grasp the very fact that I have just become a father. That was almost four years ago.

As I watched our daughter prep for her first ever recital, I am overwhelmed by emotions. It is a feeling that is hard to comprehend. It's another milestone. Where has all the time gone? I am breathless just trying to catch the fast moving tide of time. Please slow down! Our Charis, our little ballerina.

Ballet recital at the ACT Theatre in Maple Ridge, BC