Hmm, for all the pressure I get to put up new pictures and videos, nobody every looks at them. The stuff I've been posting over the last few weeks has, like, 2 views. No exaggeration. But anyway.
A couple random videos from last fall. The first is a song about color that Ren picked up from day care and sang for weeks.
The second is Ren spontaneously reading to her stuffed animals in bed.
Crazy mentally occupied last week. This week I'll hopefully be able to keep posting this old contact.
Two more videos wrap up my coverage of farm day.
Between Halloween, Christmas, and the birthday party, I've got so much stuff queued up. So for my huge readership of, like, 2 people, here's some video of Ren and Juliana together right before we went to the farm.
To say that these two get along would be...an understatement...
Here's a video of Ren making bubbles, and one of her sliding and attacking the camera.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Here's two more videos if Ren playing with various bubble-related things. In both cases, she takes it to the next level by making a game of it. Yep, my daughter all right.
Some time ago Grandma gave Ren a bubble gun. Here's a couple videos of Ren using it.
Hi all.
I'm going to be posting videos every day (or almost) for a long while. I've got a long backlog of vids I uploaded but never posted to get through, then I'll start on all the videos from our late July trip to Costa Rica (more on that later).
So, this one is really old. We've got a DVD that's got a segment where insects run/fly around to the tune of "Flight of the Bumblebee". This is how Ren reacts. Note that we didn't train her to do this or anything. Quite the contrary; I'm running around with Ren because every time the song comes on she pulls me off the couch and makes me run with her.
Our friend Ron taught Ren to say "cheese" when she sees a camera. This video is just Ren being cute on the couch.
These next two videos will give you an idea of how far behind I am in posting videos. These two are from Ren playing outdoors in winter time. Thank goodness this snow is gone now.
This first one is just Ren at play. She's awfully excited about snow. More than me.
This one demonstrates that Ren knows what to say when one sees Santa:
I've got about ten new videos and numerous new pictures to post over the next couple weeks. These are going back to the start of the year.
First off, you may recall that Ren loves the popcap game "Chuzzle". We also found she liked "Hammer Heads". These videos show the great value of having a tablet PC...because it's great for babies to manipulate. She obviously really loves playing the game and enjoys the music.
Lots of popcap games play ideally on a tablet. I don't think a two year old could do this with a mouse, but I know she'll do it for hours with a pen. Tragically the tablet has died. But these games are great for kids.
It's not in the video, but this game always says "Ready? Go!" at the start of a new level. Even months later Ren is still saying this every time she's about to try something.
I'm going to send this blog entry to the manufacturer, actually. I'm sure they'll like seeing their consumer enjoy their product...even if it's not the typical target demographic. :)
More of Tiger Ren. We went up and down my block, visiting about ten houses. I kept striking up conversations with everyone, so I think it took us about 3 hours just to go this short distance. I video'ed Ren's very first trick or treat here, with my neighbor Kathy. I don't know if she was waiting specifically for us, but she sure was glad to see us.
It was a fun night. Ren at first of course had no idea what was going on, then figured out she was supposed to get stuff, then eventually figured out that it was candy. She kept trying to eat it through the wrapper.
Amusingly, in the second video she's caught on to the idea in reverse, and kept trying to give the lady her candy.
Hi. I haven't exactly been diligent in keeping up the videos and pics, have I? We have a huge backlog because I always forget to post. Lazy am I.
These two are from a huge Berwyn Halloween party. The Parks District converts Berwyn's largest park to a haunted forest, plus there's food, live music, pumpkins, hayrides, etc. Ren's costume is a tiger we got at a secondhand store. She loves it. Once when we were gone and a babysitter had Ren, she got it from her stored clothes and cried and cried until the babysitter put her in it.
Ren also loves dancing, as these two videos show...
