14 posts tagged “sean”

We played with Photo Booth for a little while after dinner last night.  Elias and Eva made a couple videos.  Eli directed (as usual), narrated and picked out the effect he was going for (so excuse the weird pop art)... The MBP webcam really doesn't do well in anything but full sun, so i was manning the flashlight.  Elias dances all the time to the music in his head, spinning, twirling, whatever... He has learned to channel his Inner-Napoleon-Dynamite..

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just a couple quick observances... I bought Laura flowers while I was out yesterday at the grocery store, I peeled the price tag off the plastic wrapper but only the TOP price tag came off.  The price tag underneath that tag was $4 less.  I know I'm paying more for flowers on V-Day but shouldn't they hide it a little better than that?

Later that evening we went out without the kids.  I called PF Changs, a sit down Chinese restaurant that is super Gluten-free friendly.  three hour wait.  I should have thought about that much earlier in the day but I didn't think they would have that long of a wait.  But it was okay, we went to Borders and invested a bunch of money in books we couldn't live without.  We were seated at 10:30p and dinner was great.

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Me love you long time.
(apparently through the years this pose was a common theme)

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Spurred by Geekdad and a $300 lego prize, Elias and I have been building a mousetrap car together during Eva's nap time for about two weeks now.  This afternoon (nap time) we finally shot the last piece of video we needed for our (soon to be) WINNING video!  You can read the rules of the contest here.  A mousetrap car is a vehicle that is solely powered by one mousetrap.  It's a GREAT lesson in physics, energy, thinking outside of the box... wood working, video editing and on and on.  We had a good time making the car and video.  It doesn't seem that there are ANY other entries yet, we may win by default, although I think we have a solid entry.  The entries are judged on creativity of the car and video.  I'll let you know what happens when the winner is announced probably next week.

The car was HEAVY... I didn't realize it until after we had already built ours that everyone else's is much smaller and lighter... That's okay though, we needed it big to shape the styrofoam on top and make it car shaped, something I hadn't seen anyone else do before.

Eli wanted to vlog but couldn't think of anything to say... he kept starting and stopping the recording and trying to do things over... laura wasn't dressed to be broadcast to the world, somehow a fog rolled in while she was on camera and she won't have to worry about being seen in her pajama pants, who would have guessed?!  It's kind of long but i didn't feel like editing it down...

I mentioned a couple days back that i would dig out our old cartoon family portrait, south park style.  This is from 2002 and one child ago, next is the recent simpsons style portrait...  Elias had a mohawk off and on from like 20mos-5years old.  We always joked that he would rebel against our punk ways and only wear abercrombie... if he looks back on his younger pictures he shakes his head in disgust that we did that to him :o)  now that i've mentioned that, i should dig out some little elias pictures while i have that external hard drive connected.

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I saw they had headcoverings for the women's hair (even if it is a bandana) so i knew it was destined for another cartoon family portrait... I'll post our 'south park' family portrait from 2001 some time...