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.
Back in I believe September, Ren and I flew down to Kentucky for the weekend so Grandma and Grandpa could get in some Ren time. I took a total of 4 usable pictures while we were down there. Here they are.
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...
Juliana is Ren's good friend. She's 3 months older than Ren and the daughter of our friends Jennifer and Mike Woods. Ren constantly talks about Juliana, and when she gets to see her next and stuff. It's because of days like this.
So in early October, the three of us drove to the Woods' house in Wisconsin. We met up with Juliana, Jennifer, Mike, and Mike's mom. Then all of us drove out to one of those October farm attractions. This was a truly fantastic day and we all had a great deal of fun. I'm posting the photos today, then video over the next day or so.
Here are the photos.
A couple of my favorites:
Here's a whole bunch of pictures of Ren at Brookfield Zoo. This is a trip with Ren, Hiroko, and a friend of the family.
Also, from around this period, here are a couple cute single shots of Ren:
Here's also a shot of Ren in what was, at the time, her brand new twin-sized bed. No more crib for Big Girl Ren:
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:
