Published on November 19, 2007
in Kiddos.
Isabella was one of several kids at school that recently got chosen to raise and lower the flags before and after school each day. She attended a quick little training session one day, and finally got to do her job last week.
I just had to get her to school about ten minutes early each day, and make sure she didn’t let the flag touch the ground. The boy that was helping her didn’t seem to think it was so important though, so I had to tell him that if he let the flag touch the ground we’d have to set him on fire as well as the flag. That seemed to do the trick.
I’m pretty sure he knew I was kidding. Most likely, anyway.
Isabella played her Christmas recital today*. She played Deck the Halls pretty much flawlessly.
Since I’m not a very good dad and generally no good in other areas as well, I failed to catch the first few notes of her performance in the video. I was watching really closely for some sort of visual cue like a nod from her teacher or something that would signal that she was about to begin, but there was none. I think Isabella and her teacher must have worked out some sort of secret signal only perceivable by them in the hopes of foiling any would-be videographer’s hopes of recording her performance in its entirety.
So anyway. Below is what I got video-wise, and there are photos as well.
Afterwards we went to Olive Garden with Mom and Sam, as is our wont and tradition following a recital.
* Yeah, it’s the latter half of November, which these days makes it a little late for a Christmas recital, but what can you do?
Published on November 17, 2007
in Kiddos.
It’s about time.
Claire’s little umbilical stump evidently realized it was no longer needed or even wanted anymore, and so finally threw in the towel and took off for greener pastures. The benefits here are two-fold: For Claire, it means she no longer has a vestigial piece of dried body part hanging around anymore (which is surely always a good thing). For us, it means we can finally give her her first real bath in an appropriately sized tub.
Sometimes kids are funny. They can so intensely focus on what we big people might consider the most trivial of things, while at the same time forgetting to pay attention to what might be considered slightly more important. Things like, oh I don’t know, putting your hands out in front of you so as to avoid smashing your face into the ceramic tile floor, for example.
I only bring it up because tonight David did just that. I watched him do it. He ran into the kitchen to pick up some playing cards he had scattered around, began a crouching maneuver upon arriving at the site of the strewn cards, and was doing quite well. However, he failed to stop the crouching maneuver after the appropriate amount of crouchness had been achieved, and proceed to plant himself face first in the middle of the kitchen floor.
So right now he looks like Rocky after the first good hit from Apollo Creed.
I think my new f/1.8 lens really captures the true essence of a head injury.
Yesterday we got one of these bad boys for the taking of better photos of Kids One through Three and anything else that we may want to record for posterity.
Since then I’ve taken well over two hundred photos. I now present to you, for no good reason, The First 100 Keepers.
Published on November 10, 2007
in Kiddos.
It’s official. According to David anyway. He’s now a Big Boy.
We had a bunch of family and friends over for a short time of birthday festivities including balloons, cake and ice cream, and of course a veritable flood of presents ranging from this set gears and cranks for smartifyin’ himself with, to a big ole honkin’ Tonka firetruck with a wicked cool extension ladder.
The party didn’t start until 7:00 in order to allow people to get off work and have dinner and whatnot before coming over. And since it was a school night, most everyone had to leave by around 8:30, so it was indeed un soiree vitesse.
After everyone left and shortly before bedtime, David and I built this super-cool firetruck carwash complete with spinning brushes and water sprayers.
Published on November 3, 2007
in Kiddos.
I’ve put up some more recent photos of Claire…just because…
Just because.
There are more in her photo album.
