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Archive for May, 2009
Washington DC trip to see the grands
Sorry for my updates being few and far between. Life with a two year old is pretty hectic, but I’m just making excuses. We spent the end of last week in Washington, DC, visiting Jen’s parents. Peyton had a great time and Grandma and Papa Coffin’s house. On Friday, we visited the National Zoo and Saturday we visited Gravelly Point Park and National Harbor in Maryland. We had a great time seeing the grands and spending some time with friends in the area.
I’ve edited together a couple videos from our trip – one from the National Zoo and one from Gravelly Point Park. I’ve posted them both on YouTube and on our MobileMe gallery (links at the top of the page). Photos from the zoo are here…
Peyton is doing really well. She’s expanding her vocabulary every day – sometimes to her mother’s and my dislike. She’s learning a lot and she continues to be very social at daycare. We have had a couple incidents where she has bitten another child at daycare, but hopefully that won’t be happening again. She was disciplined both a school and at home and we believe she learned her lesson. Even when playing now, if Jen or I even seem like we’re biting, she’ll stop us and say “no bite.”
Our baby girl has also developed a big love for animals. Elephants are her favorite. She saw her first elephants several months ago at the circus. We visited the circus again the following month after she begged to see the elephants, again. So, the visit to the zoo was nice for her to see the elephants. She also liked the tigers and panda bears.
She’s also mothering her dolls now. She likes to put them to sleep (under every kitchen towel, sheet, or blankey she owns). She’s also been heard disciplining them. I came into the living room one day to find Tigger, her doll, the elephant and a bunny all in “time-out”. I asked what they had done and they’d bitten (ding, ding – I think she got it!).
There should be more things posted soon. Jen and I celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary on June 1. We don’t have any special plans, as of yet. No special trip or anything planned, though we’ve got our fingers crossed for maybe making a trip to California in the fall…
Photo gallery & video gallery changes
A while back, I announced that we removed our personal photo gallery for security and privacy reasons. I’ve since been using Picasa’s Web Gallery provided by Google. I’m happy with a lot of their features, including facial recognition and grouping. As a matter of fact, the facial recognition works better than the one built into iPhoto… (that’s a topic for my other blog). After playing around with other solutions, I really like using Picasa’s web gallery. I have found a way to upload directly from iPhoto and so that’s where all our family photos will be. There are lots of galleries, but most are private. If you want to receive updates from me, send me an email – philip.sellers at gmail.com – and I’ll add you so you receive photos when I send them out.
And because I’ve chosen to put all the photos out there, I’ve decided to use the MobileMe gallery for videos. I got a lot of feedback that the MobileMe photo galleries didn’t work so well, so I abandoned it for that, but I think the way it does videos and the fact that it integrates so well with my iMovie software, I’m going to continue to post my videos there. I’ll also be uploading them to YouTube – but the MobileMe gallery will have better quality copies. I hope to buy a new hard-disk based HD video camera soon – maybe for Christmas if all works out.
