Tag: Video

  • excessive laundry

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b_D9DUG7SY

    about a month ago, our washing machine went kaput — and decided to flood the unit below ours.

    oops.

    the guy who lives there came up and told us, and was pretty chill about the whole thing.

    “oh, the last time this happened …”

    huh?

    turns out the previous owners of our unit flooded his apartment … as did the owners before them. actually, one of them did it twice, apparently.

    and, when we i pulled the washing machine out from the closet to see what the heck was going on, there was a half inch gap between the wall and the floor — so any time water splashed out of our machine, it went right through to the ceiling of his unit.

    so, i spent last weekend patching the open space — wood, plaster, caulk — and spent this weekend painting everything up nice and spiffy.

    and, while the lady sparkler was buying us new laundry equipment to complete the mini-renovation, baby sparklet was discovering the joy of automatic doors (see video, above).

    priceless.

  • video: fireworks

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iTi6jkoJ5s

  • video: fighting for control

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VjZG94fzn8

  • video: oh no, we’ve lost one back there

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU-md8GSpDY

    and not two minutes earlier i was thinking to myself — “wow, i think she’s finally getting the hang of this hiking thing.”
  • fill the bucket, empty the bucket

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    i just spent 10 minutes watching sparklet fill the dump truck with mulch, empty the mulch from the dump truck, fill the dump truck, empty the dump truck …

    when she finally got bored with that she found a bucket — and i spent 15 minutes watching sparklet fill the bucket with mulch, empty the bucket of mulch, fill the bucket of mulch, empty the bucket of mulch …

    i actually have video proof — but it is not for the those with a low threshold of boredom.

    … and i only took the video because i needed something to do to prevent me from lapsing into a coma.

    i can’t believe i have a worse case of A.D.D. than my child. where did she get this attention span from?

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    fill the bucket, guy mason park, glover park, dc
  • video: zoom, zoom

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2XMBsUQKU

  • video: first steps towards walking

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uYapFWrrX0

    sparklet’s been taking three or four steps for a couple weeks now — far, but not far enough to get out the video camera.

    today we finally got our act together and took her out to a nearby ballfield (guy mason park in glover park). that gave us enough space to put the camera on a tripod, which giving us the four hands required for this sort of walk-training instead of just two.

  • video: catch

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxM1aibiZE

  • video: showing off on the rocking horse

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozYDadpF4Ok

  • firsts: walking with a walker

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_lhPSOQ0E

    while this is technically her second time walking with some kind of mechanical assistance, it’s the first time we’ve gotten video.

    (video from Rose Park, in Georgetown.)