Home Movies (Vanya): November 2009 - November 2010

Some of the last bits of the Pre-K4 Thanksgiving presentation that the kids did for us before the "Feast at their school. A lot of what I shot got file-corrupted and lost, and I think this is toward the end of their work. You can see Vanya toward the back, acting silly, and at one point, you can definitely hear him over the other kids.

Vanya drums/dances to Roxanne, by the Police.

Vanya and Caleb sprint from door to door to door, excitedly trick-or-treating in 2010.

There was a short but heavy rain storm during a tailgate Saturday. After it ends, the kids play in the river of water running down the street toward the gutter. Nervous nelly mothers can relax. No one gets sucked down the drain.

Vanya plays in a messy room with a chocolate covered face.

Vanya and his friend Margaret sing and play on the porch of a beach house rental.

I was looking for a cute video of Vanya playing on the beach, and for some reason, he decided to sprint away at full-speed. You'll see me try to keep up for a minute, and then just give up altogether.

I was probably trying to get everyone to sing or something, but this video got hijacked by Vanya before it got started.

Jake and Vanya irritate each other on a car ride. Or perhaps they're just irritating the adults. Watch and come up with your own judgment.

Sorry about the quality of this one. It was way too dark in the car to get a good pic with my camera. I used software to brighten it enough to see, but the remaining picture is noisy, and there are those black bars for some reason or other.

Vanya tries to influence the course of the remote control boat through body English, while Jake drives it all around the lake.

Vanya had a pretty good run of picking up splinters from the deck during vacation at a rental house in Tennessee. We're on Watts Bar Lake. Background musics is "Sweet Melissa" by the Allman Brothers, which seems like fitting music for shirtless barefoot people in rural Tennessee.

During the first T-ball game, Vanya wasn't really comfortable chasing and fielding the ball yet. At least he had the grabbing of his junk down.

I made fun of Crystal for having a shitload of those plastic spatula-spoon things, and commented that our kid would love to have them. Later, a couple of them showed up in the mail for him.

This video is right after he unpacked his gift on 4/7/10.

By the way, he doesn't usually wear the redneck sleeveless t's, and I think this is the only video I have where he is so dressed.

SBU also won their conference tournament and drew a seed in the NCAAs this year.

This is from dinner and cocktail time on 2/17/2010.

This is how we spend many of our evenings.

Playtime in the airport on our way to return home on Thanksgiving weekend. "Close your eyes and count to four" is a close cousin of hide and seek, except that you only get to count to four, and if you're it, your're it forever. Also, the person hiding is usually the one to shout, "ready or not, here I come!"