End of the year and some movies

Friends


Happy New Year, and all that. It's finally time to catch up in blog-land. There are a total of three postings today (because, if you leave this alone for 4 months, the volume of things to talk about overwhelms one post). I'd tell you that my resolution for 2010 is to be better about posting here, but you can tell that I'm already off to a bad start.

In any case -this is the "videos" posting.


Daniel's preschool class held an end-of-year christmas pageant, and Daniel was a shepard. It's nearly 13 minutes long, of which Daniel's speaking role consists of the line "Where is he?" at around the 6:19 mark. The editor recommends the sequence starting at about 5:20 for those who don't want to sit through the whole video.

Rachel's been learning some tricks of her own, and she really wanted to show off this one - so without further ado -> Rachel, demonstrating the correct playschool method of putting on a jacket.

Jingle bells - with keyboard by Daniel.

This little book with a built-in keyboard has the most amazingly ear-penetrating, fake-synthesizer sound. But that's not really the point of this video -Daniel figured out that by reading the color-coded notes and playing them in order, he could play the keyboard. So that was pretty cool.

This little video is called "Energy Ball". It could also be called "Kids+Sugar+Cabin Fever=", but in reality, they are having a great time. Daniel, Rachel and their cousin Leo decided to literally bounce off the furniture at the cabin we rented for Christmas. After hanging out with Leo and Jacob for a couple of days, Daniel developed an accent that is EXACTLY like what you can hear Leo say in this video, but sadly I don't have any video evidence of this.