Wow, this week really kind of slipped past us. Nothing really big happened, and when I looked on my camera’s memory cards earlier I thought “Woah, I kinda slacked off on taking pictures.” Well, bound to happen once in a while. Still, I did have the sense to grab my glass when Sam got ahold of a pair of safety glasses and my old hardhat from San Diego Gas & Electric:
Wish I still worked there, ’cause I could probably get that framed and hung in some hallway.
Actually, this weekend marked one minor milestone: Sam’s first real outing to a movie. She had been before as an infant, but this weekend I decided that a very pregnant Geralyn needed some time off to herself and that a movie would be just the ticket. So Sam and I packed it up and went to see Happy Feet, the new animated movie about a penguin with the voice of a hobbit and the feet of a dancer. It was substantially less horrifying than the last movie about penguins we saw, but it still had some stuff that scared Sam, as well as some fairly overt sexual innuendos. And Robin Williams. I should really research these things more in the future, but at any rate she did really well, sitting all the way through the movie and seeming to enjoy herself. Hurrah, I have found a new way to kill an afternoon with her.
And now here’s the federally mandated picture of Sam with something smeared all over her face. I think it’s chocolate. I hope it’s chocolate.
Besides smearing things, Sam’s new thing is being extremely bossy. We had a rather one sided conversation at dinner tonight that went something like this:
“Take your napkin, Daddy, now eat your noodle NO NOT THAT ONE NOT THAT ONE, this one! EAT IT! USE YOUR FORK! Now, keep your napkin on your lap like a princess and eat SLOOOOOOWW. And don’t talk with your mouth full it’s not polite.” This last particularly ironic given that she delivered these instructions through great mouthfuls of black beans, noodles, and carrots.
Finally, here’s another video that I made of Sam doing her nightly ritual of singing the ABC Song while brushing her teeth. Click to watch:
I may make the occasional video like this, but nobody really said anything about last week’s. You all dig them?
I dig. Lost myself in the adorable factor really. I’m also quite embarrassed with myself. I didn’t realize I’d been skipping ‘Q’ so many times during my own recitations.
The videos are great!
Hmmm …
Well, as a parent of a two-year-old that’s considered online video before, I like them. I especially like that you’ve used YouTube. On the other hand, there’s something more personal about video than photos. Makes me feel more like I’m peeping rather than just enjoying a story – creepy (smile). Count me as undecided.
Thanks for the comments, all. And yeah, Kevin, that’s kind of a thin line to walk a lot of times. I doubt I’ll do videos very often for that and a few other reasons: 1) they’re hard to do well from a technical and artistic standpoint, 2) if they’re not done well they quickly lose their charm after the initial novelty, 3) any that I produce will probably be either boring or sappy or both. Still, it’s fun to break things up occasionally with video or audio.