He was sticking his face under the faucet. Of course he stopped when the camera came out.
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We got him one of his own to use (blue and yellow thing hidden by leaves). He uses that now.
Not that we really know much about sports. But we'll always cheer for Auburn. Unless they're playing Hope. Or the Red Wings. Go red men on skates! He occasionally finds it hilarious to be on my shoulders when I shake my head.
Nevermind that the phone is upside down.
This was an extra sudsy bath.
Other bathtub pasttimes include pointing to the toilet saying "Paaaahhhteee. Paaahhhtee." and "na no", as in he's not supposed to touch it.
Samuel loves my phone. He presses the buttons at random and puts it up to his ear and walks around.
I know its been increasingly longer between posts and I admit that its getting old to have to post. On top of this, I just haven't been on the internet as much at home (more so at work) and since we connect through our phones, when I am online at home its sort of a pain (the connect isn't that great so it sometimes cuts out during the upload, especially of videos). And I haven't really come up with something (which could be as simple as a flash drive) that I carry with me to take pics to work to upload.
Excuses excuses.
The other thing is that, while he remains the best looking guy in the house, Samuel's milestones have started to space out a bit more. He's still walking - just farther now. He's still babbling - just more so. Etc.
When the new baby comes, the pictures will roll again I'm sure. Or if I start being a bit more intentional about bring pictures to work to post. Or if I get an iPhone.
Until then, sorry about the delays.
-Marcos
Although Friday was the official day, we celebrated this past Sunday, letting Samuel indulge in chocolate cake for the first time. I must say he wasn't that interested, but did pose for a couple pictures before deciding that it just wasn't worth it if his hands had to be covered in all that sticky stuff.
He has been walking more so here's a video of that. He can actually go a lot farther than what's on the video, it just kinda depends on his mood. And what he's trying to get to.
I know its been a long time between posts. We're across the state right now and I don't have a great way to get pictures from my camera to my mom's computer. Next week might get better.
Sitting in his Christmas (Eve) Church clothes.
Opening a gift with Mama and Grandma.
After opening a gift from Grandma and Grandpa, he enjoyed playing on the box with Grandpa.Well it's almost Christmas and its been a while since I posted so here you go.
Yea, Christmas is almost here!
I was just about to send out some Christmas emails...
Why does daddy make me help with the vacuuming?
All these preparations really wear me out.I present for you a comparison of 3 different video uploading services: blogger's own service, Google Video, and YouTube. Ok its more for me than for you. But you can watch the videos. Samuel has started clapping and saying the word "wow," which is currently our favorite word that he says.
Next up, Google Video. It's what I used to use.
Finally, YouTube. Perhaps the standard. I didn't like it until Google bought them, so I would now consider using them.
Any comments on the winner? As I compare to the original file, all of the uploads are darker. If you would like the original to compare, it is here (3.7mb).
UPDATE: Vote for your favorite on the sidebar!I've added an album to my Picasa account with pictures taken by Matt Elasivich (who very kindly gave me access to the files). Matt does terrific work and if you need pictures for a wedding/senior picture/whatever, he's your man. Let me know and I can hook you up with him.
Samuel did well at the photo shoot. These are twelve of the best shots (of about 80 total).
The album can be found here.
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Dark apparently. Its interesting, as the videos are perfectly viewable before they are uploaded, and once I'm viewing them from the website, the brightness is noticeably less, even on our same computer. Kind of annoying really.
Don't know how I'll fix the problem. I'll start by offering up some more pictures of Samuel. In the next post.
And I'll stop making movies after 6pm.
So I've been posting videos for sometime, and using mainly our digital camera (not a video camera per say) because of how easy it is to go straight from camera to blog. The video is not perfect quality, but it mostly works. When I show other residents our blog and play a video for them, I generally do it from a computer at the hospital, and oftentimes the same computer, which I've known has a pretty poor quality monitor, resulting in most images looking very dark. Recently however I watched a movie I posted on someone's laptop and it also appeared dark?
I expect the videos not to be the best of brightness - they're usually indoors and in the evening when there is no more natural light to light the shot. But the videos look fine on my computer before they are uploaded.
So my question is: are the videos really dark? Please comment.
