A redux from 2005, because this photo gets a lot of hits every year around this time.

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October 2002
Music: “Soul Bossa Nova” by Quincy Jones

Since I missed Melissa’s birthday, I started rooting around in my archives of the kids’ birthday videos.

This was taken with the first digital camera I owned, the Canon A30, which had no sound and only 30 seconds of video at one time. (Amazingly, as far as I know it’s still working and the kids use it now and again.) It’s the first videoclip I ever spliced together, but still one of my favourites.

Miss Madeleine, the middle of the five Ms, was celebrating her first birthday and at the time had a host of baby allergies that she eventually outgrew. I bought her a carob vegan cake (!) because she couldn’t eat eggs or milk, and I think she didn’t like chocolate. In fact, I think she still doesn’t like chocolate.

Whenever I watch this, there’s a narrative in my head that calls out my favourite parts:

1. (sparkler) What do I do now?
2. The Sway
3. Michael shows her how it’s done
4. The Recoil (after touching the cake)
5. The Shiver (which never ceases to make me laugh, even almost four years later)
6. The Mess

Too funny! Here’s my video of when she turned three.

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June 27, 2004

Move over, Oprah!

This pic is nearly two years old. The kids are much bigger now!

This is a ‘redux’ because the photo is one of my favourites and it was originally posted using Blogger’s fuzzy compression engine nearly two years ago. The photo already had a smear on it, so the final result was blurry enough to drive me bananas. I had to fix it.

It won’t be long before I can sit amongst the five kidlets and they can read to me while I soak my bunions, haha! Seriously, the oldest two are already reading and I’m sure Maddy will be following in their footsteps soon.

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A year ago, David and I went to see a Celtic rock band from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, perform at the Scranton Cultural Center for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

Enter the Haggis! (March 12, 2005)

Since then I’ve discovered Youtube.com, so I’m reposting for the benefit of showing some of the video from the concert. The band gets a decent amount of airplay on public radio in Pennsylvania, but this clip highlights their energy and showmanship, too.

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Kermit comes along in the Piper Tri-Pacer and gives a safety demonstration. Wear your seatbelt!

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I shot this last November — barrel rolling in the Piper Tri-Pacer!

Original post – November 15, 2004

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Arrived back from Washington, DC late last night, so I just decided to upload these four pics to Flickr that I rescued in Photoshop on the car ride home and hit the sack. I took these photos one year ago, visiting friends around France. The blog entries are here (or, just scroll up from the first post):

Paris!
Paris, avec Claire
Paris, avec Manu, then…?
Tour de France

We took TONS of photos in DC, and I have yet to upload them to Flickr. The process, at least for me, is usually as follows:

1. Upload photos to Flickr
2. Write descriptions, tag photos with keywords, add to groups
3. Blog photos to Flickr
4. Write text, arrange photos around text.

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