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2011 – a year in photos

01.03.12

2011 Photo Recap – as always, head over to Vimeo to see the HD version.

Sometimes Rhiannon and I discuss all the things we don’t do. We don’t camp as much as we would like. We should really get around to building that container garden in the back yard. Why haven’t we finished flooring of the garage yet?

And then I actually go back and look at some pictures from the past year and I guess that we are busy enough.

You’ll notice that our pictures are kind of dominated by Brooklynn. With Artoo on the way, I imagine that she’ll have to share the spotlight a little more next year. Either that or this yearly effort will scale up to mini-documentary status. I already crammed about 620 photos into 390 seconds. At this rate, we’ll be 1000+ pics and double digit minutes. That, or I’ll actually have to edit a little bit.

This year was also the first year that our cell phone cameras have a major presence. We’ve found the saying that the best camera you have is the one you have with you to be very true. A decent chunk of the photos in this were taken by Rhiannon, so thanks to her and every one else that helped make 2011 a great year for our family.

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presenting brooklynn

12.09.11

Last night, Rhiannon and I got to be parents in the audience with a video camera for the very first time. And, thanks to the power of the internet, you get to see it too.

This is the program from her school. What you don’t see in the video is that the stage was lined with over 20 kids and three teachers. I thought everyone stood in line and “performed” very well considering it’s a bunch of two year olds under the lights with a whole bunch of cameras pointed at them¹. Out of all of them, only one kid cried and had to leave the stage with his parents. I’ve picked her up from school in the evening when there are only a handful of kids left and it’s a little overwhelming to me, so seeing 20+ small people in a group, standing at attention neatly in a line was beyond impressive.

We didn’t know exactly what to expect – Brooklynn was basically asleep when we got there, but we had a little time to sit in the audience and let her warm up. When she saw her teacher and some of her friends, she was ready to go. You’ll note that while she didn’t do all of the actions, she did sing some of the words, and of course she danced around. In our house we sing and we dance around. We do some actions, and then we dance some more.

She got to bed almost an hour past her normal time, which actually wasn’t bad considering the video was shot at a time that she is usually asleep. This morning, we were talking about what a good job she did at her singing concert last night and she thought it would be fun to go do it again.

Yes, Brooklynn. You just have to wait one short year.

Wow. Talk about cameras. Video cameras, cell phones, digital cameras. Everything under the sun. And everyone clamoring for a shot of their kid. And yes, I’m just as guilty as everyone else. ↩

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A, B, C… oh, what?

12.01.11

Brooklynn has gone through several stages in her life of us trying to capture her in pictures and video. The first was indifference, where she may or may not repeat a funny behavior and there wasn’t much you could do to alter her reactions.

Then came the manipulatable stage, where we could get her to laugh or repeat behavior based on our reactions. Following that was a tough stage where she just really wanted to touch any camera or electronic device she saw.

Right now, she knows when we want her to do things again. She is capable of repeating her behaviors on command. The question is will she cooperate.

She just finished two rounds of complete ABCs, so we figured we should get a video of her doing it. Right, we should know better than to expect a full performance on demand. Silly parents.

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go, sarah!

10.11.11

Last weekend, we drove up to South Dakota to watch Sarah run in a cross country race. For anyone who has not personally attended one of these, they are typically on a golf course with the finish near the start line. Spectators can cut across the middle of the loop (in this case, two loops) and watch the runners go by a couple times.

Start, cheer, watch the runners go. You run or walk quickly to the next place and wait for them to come by.

Wait, cheer, watch, walk. Rinse, repeat.

Brooklynn was very excited to see Sarah and a little confused as to why we weren’t going with her. Sarah was running away and we should go find her!

So, to pass the time until she came back around, we helped Brooklynn learn how to cheer. The best (or worst) part of this – right after stopped recording, she started yelling, “Go Sarah!” as loud as she could all by herself.

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scooting

08.12.11

We got Brooklynn a scooter as a late birthday present from us. It’s taken a little bit of learning, but she’s getting better at it. She’s almost to the point that she will glide a little in between pushes, which is an improvement from constantly dragging her foot on the ground when she first started.

She’s also learned that it’s much easier to go downhill and walk back up, especially when she gets someone else to push the scooter uphill for her.

And she always wears a helmet. And she usually wears shoes¹.