Ren and Kai

Here's a couple cute pics of Ren with her friend Kai.

Ren and the Great Outdoors

Here's a video of Ren making bubbles, and one of her sliding and attacking the camera.

Foreign Coins

Hi all,

First of all, I never realized/intended for this to be the ONLY avenue for examining videos/pictures of Ren.

Any time you want you can click through a video to see all the other videos I've made.

Also any time you can click at a still picture and see everything I've ever uploaded to pictures.

Yet there are a lot of people who apparently only ever see this stuff when I specifically feature it here. All right. Accordingly, I'll be posting a backlog of old stuff.

So here's a 6 month old video of Ren playing with a box of coins from all over the world. These were given to her by her aunt Gina, who gets a lot of opportunities for world travel. Ren likes to get them down and play with them quite frequently.

Ren 2 1/2 Birthday

We're celebrating Ren's half birthdays instead of birthdays, because would you rather celebrate on July 4 with all your relatives, perfect weather, and fireworks, or on January 4, right after everyone's gone home for Christmas and it's like -10 outside?

Anyway, this was the first big birthday celebration. Here's a video.

Costa Rica 2009

A Flickr set with all our Costa Rica pics.

Costa Rica 2009

Ren vs. Alphabet

Hi,

A couple videos of Ren singing the alphabet. These are good for just getting an idea of where she is developmentally.

Except that, these are only a couple months old, and she's advanced so much it just seems silly. She's learning new phrases and speaking in complete sentences all the time now. But anyway they're fairly cute.

Ren vs. Baby Chick, and Strawberries.

I forgot/was too busy to post yesterday, so here's two (unrelated) today.

First, Ren loves to play with her food. We try to discourage it, of course, to some degree. But playing with food is better than getting bored and having a fit or bothering us while we're trying to eat. So sometimes we indulge. Here's an example.

As with virtually all stuff like this, we didn't invent this, this is all Ren.


Here's a video of Ren at the zoo. For a long time, Ren was very terrified of animals, particularly cats and dogs. She's finally getting over it. Here's a picture of Ren touching a baby chick...and surviving...