Posts filed under 'Movies'
I just uploaded about 3 months worth of photos. I don’t really have much of an excuse for not posting them sooner. Time just got away from me, I guess. I have lots more to write about, and now that the pictures are out of the way, hopefully I’ll find the time to share. I’m also working on some video clips.
Updated 7/4/2008, by Neal: Now with even more photos! I just uploaded a bunch from last night. My brother Colin and his wife are in town, and I was a little crazy with my new camera. There’s a great series of Anna portraits there though!
Updated 7/5/2008, by Neal: Now with video! Turns out Flickr (the folks who host our photos) have started a new video service. I uploaded a movie of Anna dancing to “Happy Feet” there. Let us know how this works for you?
July 2nd, 2008
Today is Neal’s birthday. Anna has been practicing her “Happy Birthday” song in preparation for the day. By request, we are posting a video of Anna singing “Happy Birthday.” It isn’t the best she’s ever sung this song, but we think you’ll find it cute nonetheless.
Happy Birthday Dad!
Anna Sings Happy Birthday (~1MB). You’ll need the latest version of QuickTime Player to view this movie. Here’s the link: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
Enjoy!
April 6th, 2008
Here are some short movies that we’ve wanted to share, but haven’t had the time to convert to a more reasonable format.
The first two are from Anna’s first birthday party (3/11/2007). She wasn’t quite sure of the singing and she certainly wasn’t sure of the cake. Birthday song (4.5MB) and Let her eat cake (2.3MB).
The third movie is an illustration of the crazy things we parents do to make our children “do” something for the camera. Anna started “babbling” in a way that made her sound like she was literally speaking a foreign language. Neal carried on a “conversation” with her which lasted much longer than this clip. Enjoy… Anna speaks Dirka (5.9MB on 3/17/2007).
March 27th, 2007
It seems like it has been awhile since I posted new pictures. We also have a few movies to show.
Anna has been doing some great things with her left hand! The first movie is of Anna crawling (almost 3MB). It was taken about 5 days ago and she has already improved immensely in her speed and synchronicity. The video is pretty grainy because of the poor lighting conditions.
The other two movies were captured this evening. Anna and I have been working on using her left hand to grasp things. She has difficulties rotating her arm and hand inward, which makes feeding herself with her left hand quite diffcult. Using a long cookie or a spoon, we’ve been working on maintaining her grasp and rotating her arm and hand to get the cookie or spoon to her mouth. She’s caught on and now wants to feed herself yogurt with her left hand (2.5MB). Notice I’m not constraining her right hand at all.
The last clip shows Anna banging on the table with her left hand (almost 2MB). This is the first time Anna has banged repeatedly (and rapidly) on anything using her left hand. Actually, it is the first time she’s done anything that rapidly with her left hand. Of course we’re not neurologists, but we feel this shows that her brain is working to send multiple, rapid signals to her left hand. The video is pretty grainy because of the poor lighting conditions.
Anna is such an amazing little girl. Neal and I often find ourselves on the verge of happy tears when we witness her doing new things with her left hand. She’s truly come so far! Now if only she’d grow some more hair… 
February 28th, 2007
As Neal mentioned in his post yesterday, Anna has just started crawling. She’s doesn’t move far, nor is it very graceful, but she’s trying and that is key. The simple fact that she is getting herself on her hands and knees is amazing considering the fact that her left arm is not that strong. Here’s a movie (7.5MB about 1 minute or so) of Anna that I took just this afternoon.
Anna’s cousin Henry is quite the dancer. Recently he’s started groovin’ to music of any kind. Here’s a short clip of him dancing to one of Anna’s toys.
January 26th, 2007
So we were outside playing last Sunday and Anna was in a particularly good mood. We captured her laughing in this tiny movie (QuickTime, 1.24MB).
September 28th, 2006
Tara fed Anna her first “solid” foods last night. The doctor told us at our last visit that Anna could probably start on solid foods after her fifth month or whenever she really started being interested in what we grown-ups were eating. Well, she’s been grabbing at our plates for the last couple of weeks now, so we thought we’d try her out on some yummy rice cereal!
Here’s a little movie of Anna eating her first food (QuickTime, 2.6MB).
August 18th, 2006
Anna’s starting to get a little mobile. Tara got a good little movie of Anna enjoying some tummy time (QuickTime, 1.7MB), and another of her rolling over (QuickTime, 1.6MB) from her back to her tummy all by herself (yes, the binkie is a true motivator for the pre-crawling set).
Lots of milestones here of late!
August 18th, 2006
We had a fun-filled trip back to Kansas this last weekend to help celebrate grandma Anna Hess’s 90th birthday. Baby Anna was named after this fantastic lady, and we think that both Annas were happy to be able to spend the time together.
This was baby Anna’s first plane flight, and despite a couple of over-zealous security agents (Anna, it seems, has already managed to get herself on some sort of terrorist watch-list) and some turbulence that gave her mom some trouble, Anna slept through the whole ordeal like a little angel. As soon as we landed in Wichita, Tara’s dad picked us up and took us back to Towanda to meet with the preacher (for Anna’s baptism the next day) and then we all met for dinner to celebrate grandma’s birthday.
In addition to the birthday celebration, Baby Anna was baptized at the United Methodist Church in Towanda, Kansas on her great grandmother’s 90th birthday on Sunday, June 4th, 2006. Honestly, this was the highlight of the whole trip. Grandma Anna was recognized during the service, and was able to stand next to her great grand-daughter during the baptism ceremony, surrounded by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Later in the day she gave both Anna and Henry bibles to commemorate the event.
We stayed with Tara’s mom, who stayed up until well into the early morning hours finishing Anna’s dress baking a delicious cake for grandma Anna’s birthday celebration on Sunday.
Although the trip was short, we had a wonderful time visiting with Tara’s family. And it’s great to know that Anna tolerates the hour-long plane flight to Kansas fairly well.
We took lots and lots of pictures, which are now up on the site. Go directly to our Flickr site if you’re interested in getting the most bang for your buck. Note that we’re still working to categorize many of them, but feel free to browse! We’ll also be uploading a couple of movies here soon.
To everyone in Kansas: We miss you already, and look forward to visiting again or seeing you in Colorado soon!
June 7th, 2006
Our digital camera has a “movie mode” on it, and we’re finally getting around to putting it to good use.
Here’s Anna in her first movie, cooing, giggling, and really trying to smile. The major Hollywood studios are still in a bidding war over this one, but “Anna vs. Pooh” will probably be released in widespread distribution later in the summer.
Enjoy.
Note: Grandpa Sam brought it to our attention that this movie will not play with QuickTime version 6. You must download version 7 in order to view this. QuickTime is a free download - you do not need QuickTime Pro (which is the version that costs you money).
April 30th, 2006