Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Interdependent Web
UUCA recently had a sermon series on environmental issues, and Juniper was invited to read this statement as part of each service in the series. This really spoke to her passions and her interests, and I'm grateful that she is part of a community where people know her.
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Japan: Playground zip line
Not actually so Japanese-themed, but just good, happy fun. Hooray for good public parks, in any country!
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Japan: Land of the Little Prince
...a tinkling music box soundtrack, cherry blossoms, pillars of fairy lights, and Christmas trees covered in flowers.
As far as the kids were concerned, this place was a magical wonderland. (Bonus points for catching the song playing in this video.)
...but fantastic--especially with kids.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Saturday, June 21, 2014
It's not funny, Henry.
I recently came across this almost two-year-old video. I'd uploaded it to put on the blog, but somehow never did post it. You might need to turn up the volume to appreciate this one.
It's fun to see how much the kids have changed--and how little the grown-ups have. Just this morning, I told Juniper that it's not funny to mush your peanut butter and banana sandwich onto your face, not long after Aaron told Hazel that it's not funny to jump on our bed after we've already asked you to stop.
It's fun to see how much the kids have changed--and how little the grown-ups have. Just this morning, I told Juniper that it's not funny to mush your peanut butter and banana sandwich onto your face, not long after Aaron told Hazel that it's not funny to jump on our bed after we've already asked you to stop.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Just how high I can fly
Last week, Juniper figured out swinging. When we arrived at the park, she could sort of swing, but not really, and she wanted me to push her. Then something switched, and she just got it, and she could swing. You can hear her delight in her ability to go so high. (Her song, apparently, is adapted from something in the Roald Dahl book The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. Hazel's song is a great example of the wonderful magpie creations she is up to these days.)
I had promised Juniper I would push her some after she practiced her own swinging, so after taking this video I offered to push her. After just a few pushes, she sent me away so that she could swing on her own some more. There's an exciting achievement--reaching the point where independent swinging is better than being pushed!
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Ms. Bossy Pants on the Slide
Juniper, Violet, Luke, Thomas, Ocean, and a host of other kids have gotten an immense amount of joy out of our climbing structure. (Not to mention Aaron and his siblings, who played on the same structure when they were kids.) Hazel has shown a surprising lack of interest in it, and only recently began to go up the steps. She'll happily climb to the top of the steps and then mewl for assistance, unwilling to go back down or climb onto the platform. "Up, up" means pick me up and put me back down on the ground. "Weeee, weeee" means pick me up and put me on the top of the slide.
It's pretty obvious that she's physically capable of doing this. The barrier may have been that she hadn't figured out how to do it, or that she was a little hesitant to try, but it clearly wasn't a lack of physical skills. So today, I left her mewling at the top of the stairs while I went about my business in the kitchen. She became more and more insistent in her requests for up, up, UP, but she never started crying or got upset. After several minutes, she obviously figured out that no one was coming to her rescue and carefully climbed from the stairs onto the platform. Once she was on the platform, she had another round of asking for me to put her on the slide. When she gave up on that, she tentatively put one foot and then the other onto the slide, pushed off, and slid down approximately as fast as a sandpaper block on a rough and gentle slope (she was naked, except for a diaper, and the friction from her skin meant that she basically had to scoot herself down). When she got back to the bottom, she gave a giant grin, yelled "WEEEEE!" and toddled quickly back to the steps. Repeat. Again. For the rest of the day.
I have no idea what Juniper was doing at the end of the video that earned such harsh disapproval from Hazel. Hazel loves to discipline Juniper, Luke, our dog Kayla, her blankets and other inanimate objects, but almost never her parents or other adults. She's clearly learned that this particular manner of speech is reserved for people at or below one's own level on the totem pole. We weren't quite sure where she picked this up, until one day when I heard Juniper give her sister a harsh NO! in exactly the same tone of voice that Hazel uses to discipline the people and objects around her. If I were in a cartoon, there would have been a light bulb over my head at that moment.
It's pretty obvious that she's physically capable of doing this. The barrier may have been that she hadn't figured out how to do it, or that she was a little hesitant to try, but it clearly wasn't a lack of physical skills. So today, I left her mewling at the top of the stairs while I went about my business in the kitchen. She became more and more insistent in her requests for up, up, UP, but she never started crying or got upset. After several minutes, she obviously figured out that no one was coming to her rescue and carefully climbed from the stairs onto the platform. Once she was on the platform, she had another round of asking for me to put her on the slide. When she gave up on that, she tentatively put one foot and then the other onto the slide, pushed off, and slid down approximately as fast as a sandpaper block on a rough and gentle slope (she was naked, except for a diaper, and the friction from her skin meant that she basically had to scoot herself down). When she got back to the bottom, she gave a giant grin, yelled "WEEEEE!" and toddled quickly back to the steps. Repeat. Again. For the rest of the day.
I have no idea what Juniper was doing at the end of the video that earned such harsh disapproval from Hazel. Hazel loves to discipline Juniper, Luke, our dog Kayla, her blankets and other inanimate objects, but almost never her parents or other adults. She's clearly learned that this particular manner of speech is reserved for people at or below one's own level on the totem pole. We weren't quite sure where she picked this up, until one day when I heard Juniper give her sister a harsh NO! in exactly the same tone of voice that Hazel uses to discipline the people and objects around her. If I were in a cartoon, there would have been a light bulb over my head at that moment.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Point A (book) to Point B (grown up who will read to me)
Amazing how quickly she went from this...
...to this.
You may notice that the skin on Hazel's face looks odd in the crawling video. She's had a rough winter: multiple ear infections, a rash that was maybe a reaction to amoxicillin or maybe roseola, a strep infection of the skin (rash #2), and a third rash that settled debate on the first one by confirming that Hazel really is allergic to amoxicillin. You can see a bit of the strep rash in the crawling video. Thankfully she is a cheerful child and has stayed generally happy despite her maladies.
...to this.
You may notice that the skin on Hazel's face looks odd in the crawling video. She's had a rough winter: multiple ear infections, a rash that was maybe a reaction to amoxicillin or maybe roseola, a strep infection of the skin (rash #2), and a third rash that settled debate on the first one by confirming that Hazel really is allergic to amoxicillin. You can see a bit of the strep rash in the crawling video. Thankfully she is a cheerful child and has stayed generally happy despite her maladies.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Walking - for real!
Hazel took her first steps on MLK day and then spent the next few weeks showing basically no interest in walking. She would occasionally take a step or two when coaxed, tricked, or distracted, but she definitely was not using walking as a productive means of getting anywhere. Two weeks later when Aaron left for a trip to Virginia, he still hadn't seen her take any steps. While Aaron was gone (Saturday Feb. 4, to be exact), Hazel flipped some internal on switch and decided that walking is the way to go. And now she walks.
Apologies for the noise on the video; it was a very windy day. I believe there's actually a spot in the video where Hazel tries to tell the wind "all done."
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Green Lantern Reporting for Duty
Juniper is ready to join the Green Lantern Corps (and to go trick-or-treating):
- In brightest day, in blackest night,
- No evil shall escape my sight
- Let those who worship evil's might,
- Beware my power... Green Lantern's light!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Moving in 3 dimensions
Today at the park, Juniper taught Hazel how to climb up steps. Hazel was a little hesitant at first, but once she got the hang of it, she had a blast. This is her second trip up the jungle gym steps. (I opted for careful spotting over video quality.)
Juniper was pretty excited about teaching her sister a new skill. And Juniper really does get the credit here. Hazel was hanging out on the bottom step with no interest in climbing till Juniper crawled up the steps to show her how it's done. This is up there on my list of great moments in parenthood.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Hazel's latest trick
She trains us as much as we train her. We love to get Hazel to perform tricks on command, but she's even more delighted at the discovery that her actions can prompt a response from us. These days, one of her favorite ways to initiate play is by shaking her head at someone, knowing that we will respond in kind.
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