Isabella Gets Her Ears Pierced

They wouldn't let me record the actual piercing, so I had to settle for pictures only.

The Girls Swimming

The girls have been really impressing me with their improvement in swimming ability this summer. Isabella is 3 and swimming pretty good, and Olivia is 2 and swimming about as good as I could imagine a 2 year old swimming.

Videos of the Girls

Olivia counting and making other funny noises.

Isabella singing Allstar from the movie Shrek and made popular in the late 90s by Smashmouth.

Halloween 2009

Here is a video of Olivia talking, and the girls dancing around on Halloween. If you look closely, you can see me Time Warping in the background.



Here are our jack-o-lanterns. I carved the cyclops for myself, and the skull for Olivia. Julie carved herself the witch, and the bird for Isabella. The pictures of them lit up didn't turn out all that great.

My Girls May 2009

My girls are super cute, and I was able to catch some of their super-cutosity on video this month so I thought I would share it with the world.

Newest Video of the Girls

Here is a video of Olivia from last month when she was just getting walking figured out. Isabella is also acting silly by running in circles, and making faces for the camera.

Our Gingerbread House

We don't make a gingerbread house every year, but we made one this year. With a two year old helping in the construction there is definitely a lot less pressure for it to look perfect. However, it turned out perfect anyway. Perfect for two adults and a toddler.

Isabella did the gumball pathway and most of the tree decorating.

Isabella Dancing

Here is a fun video of Isabella dancing in the kitchen to the music from her little magnetic farm.

Spinning Isabella

This was funny to watch. That air conditioner is sure loud.

Isabella Rocks Out

I thought that this video was pretty cool, and made it with a free program that came on my computer. You just add video clips, a song, title, credits, and hit "make muvee" and it spits it out looking like this. I was a little worried about posting it on You Tube because of the music and copyrights, but thought that there are tons of videos that are up with copyrighted music. Within a couple hours I got this e-mail from You Tube:

Dear YouTube Member:

UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video Isabella Rocks Out. This claim was made as part of the YouTube Content Identification program.

Your video is still live because UMG has authorized the use of this content on YouTube. As long as UMG has a claim on your video, they will receive public statistics about your video, such as number of views. Viewers may also see advertising on your video's page.

Claim Details:

Copyright owner:	UMG
Content claimed:	Some or all of the audio content
Policy:	Allow this content to remain on YouTube. Place advertisements on this video's watch page. Applies to these locations: Everywhere

UMG claimed this content as a part of the YouTube Content Identification program. YouTube allows partners to review YouTube videos for content to which they own the rights. Partners may use our automated video / audio matching system to identify their content, or they may manually review videos.

If you believe that this claim was made in error, or that you are otherwise authorized to use the content at issue, you can dispute this claim with UMG and view other options in the Video ID Matches section of your YouTube account. Please note that YouTube does not mediate copyright disputes between YouTube owners. Learn more about video identification disputes.

Sincerely,
The YouTube Content Identification Team

It seemed scary when I first started reading, but then I realized it basically said, "You WOULD BE violating copyright laws if we didn't already have this relationship with Universal Music Group. Shame on you! You got lucky this time.

So, enjoy the video.

Bella and Liv

I just dropped a couple videos in The Tube so I thought I would share them.


Olivia just being cute and kind of bobbing around for the camera.



Isabella looking at the webcam on my laptop and telling us some animal sounds.

In other strange (to me) news, I have over 2,700 views on my other You Tube video of Isabella walking. That seems crazy to me.

Another Contest

On the blog of author Tim Ferriss there was another contest that I entered. The contest was that the first 30 people to put a 20 second video clip on YouTube in which they gave their answer to the question "What is technology?", and the first 20 people to put a 20 second video clip of their kid or kids answering the same question would win a Mogo Bluetooth Laptop Mouse. While I don't have a laptop, I do like entering contests that involve making something as opposed to a contest where you just give them your personal information to sell to spammers. Plus, I MAY get a laptop...someday. The mouse does look pretty cool. Well, by the time I got around to entering the contest, there were already more than thirty adults who had uploaded their videos, so I opted to exploit my 1 year old to try to win a mouse I can't use and don't need. Click to see the contest.
And now for the winning video:



Update:In the Zenhabits design contest I ended up getting 6th place with a little over 200 votes. That is pretty sweet since probably only 20 or so of those votes were the votes I solicited from my friends. While I didn't win an Amazon gift card, I did at least win an ebook by the author of the blog.

Isabella's 1st Birthday

The New Isabella Video

This video was over produced for what it is.

Isabella Walking

Isabella is such a good walker already