Mirror V

If there are any child development specialists viewing this, please stop me before I turn my boy into Norma Desmond.

Length: 0:46

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2 Baseballs: Special Edition

Re-edited, or rather de-edited. When I first posted this last summer I was so timid that I overtrimmed the shot, removing twenty seconds at the front end that I feared might try my viewer's (sic) patience. But since the boy and I occasionally sit and view raw movie clips in iPhoto, I had the chance to revisit the source material. I realized I had made a mistake.

Hence: as it was meant to be seen.

Length: 0:55

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Security

Seconds after turning on the camera, the boy experienced a seemingly unprovoked anxiety attack, and quickly sprang into action to soothe himself, with the help of a few of his standard accoutrements.

We are growing ambivalent about the chomper (binky), but at this point we're grateful he knows how to ask for what he wants. (Of course, when what he wants is: more TV, we're more likely to say no.)

Length: 1:03

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Hike II

A trek through the bamboo in our overgrown back yard.

And he's quoting, from Jane Yolen & Mark Teague's How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?

The line: "Does he* up and demand a piggyback ride?"

Length: 1:40

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*A dinosaur, in this case an ankylosaurus, who is leaping at his human mother in a pose less evocative of a piggyback ride than of a painful mauling. Other than that, it's a delightful book, and our current bedtime favorite.

UPDATE: He memorized the entire story by June.