A trip to the (Lego) Zoo
George got a mega pack of Lego’s for his 6th birthday. Today he and Lydia built this amazing zoo complete with animals, spectators and jets. And of course there was a super slick spy car to go along with it all.
Friendless film
The family and I have made our latest film. It’s the story of a little girl who doesn’t feel like she has many friends and goes looking for them in an adventurous way. Along the way she has to make difficult choices to give up the very things that promise to help her find friendship.
We really hope you enjoy it. Don’t forget to click in the bottom right of the video to watch full screen. The girls had me include a pretty funny outtake at the end (after the credits).
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The Gift 2
The girls decided to make a movie today. They asked me to help them film and edit it, but other than that they did everything else. They even sat by me while I edited and composed the music in sonicfire pro. They told me which background to choose, what it should say, where to cut the video…everything. Clara was ecstatic and made sure we all knew she was the director.
During the entire editing process she was picking out problems and making plans for the next video.
This is what came of it:
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Fall pictures of the kids
Here are some pictures Rachel took of the children the other day on our front porch. One of our neighbors gave George (and the girls) a Halloween shirt for his birthday. Remember that Clara is now in school all day. They are getting so big.
George the gymnast
Saturday afternoon the whole family was sitting around in the family room and I remembered that I hadn’t filmed George doing his latest trick. Rachel called me in the other day and told me to watch what he had come up with. I’m not sure how he imagined that up, or how he decided to put his hands in the air, but it was pretty funny.
I’m sure Grandma Watrous will cringe every time she sees him do it. In the video window below there’s a button in the bottom right that will make the video full-screen. It might take a minute to start after you press play. Give it a second.
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