It may seem odd to some cyber-savvy uber-dorks, but real life does on occasion get in the way of blogging, even on a low-rent blog like this one. We’ve all been pretty busy as of late – in a good way. Mark has been keeping me busier than a one legged man in one of those contests you’ve heard about. We’ve been renting apartments and getting tenants moved in just as fast as we can, at what I believe is safe to call an all-time record pace.

So. Family blogging has fallen by the wayside, and I do apologize to those who long for updated photos and stories of the kids/grandkids. We’ll try to get some recent stuff posted up here in the coming days.

For instance:

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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?

Here he’s singing some Scandanavian version of the Alphabet Song, evidently:

And here it is in English, with a kiss at the end:

It’s pretty cool to have videos of your Nearly-Three-Year-Old singing to your Nearly-Three-Week-Old.

Sometimes he gets tired of us pointing cameras at him. He’s getting all libertarian on us.

And here’s a video we took of Isabella holding Claire for the first time in NICU, when Claire was about two days old: