Baby Joseph finally came home around 2 p.m. Thursday. Continuing the Renaud baby tradition, he had little gifts for his sisters: sunglasses for Ludi and Josie, and a set of play keys for Jadzia.
Click the "continue reading" link below to watch a video of the homecoming.
After a long day Tuesday, I decided to try and edit the 30 minutes or so of video I had shot from Joseph's birth.
But I got an unpleasant surprise. Something is amiss with our Sony HandyCam TRV-280, and it is not playing back the video correctly.
Anyway, I borrowed my dad's camcorder and shot some video at the hospital this afternoon. Click the "continue reading" link below to watch the video.
If you are related to me and you are part of our family tree on Geni.com, you should login and check out some of the videos I have posted there from my Dad's 50th birthday.
We got a stack of books from the library this week, two of which we have read before: "Three by the sea" and "Three up a tree," both of which are excellent. While we were at the library, I also noticed "Miss Nelson is Back," another book I remember from my youth, so we added that to the stack.
Ludi doesn't quite have the patience to sit through "Miss Nelson is Back" when I read it for the girls. But she likes to take all three books and "read" them aloud by herself.
Jadzia has been waiting all winter for us to get enough snow that she could make a snowman. Finally the moment arrived. She and Ludi came out with me and we began working on a snowman. But the fun didn't last very long.
Here's the second of two videos I shot on Wednesday. This one shows my parents, my brother, sister-in-law and nephews when they came over to the hospital to meet Josie. With four toddlers/preschoolers running around the room, there was potential for much havoc. Thankfully, serious damage was avoided. I'm so glad that Justin and Becca could come up with the boys.
Here's the first of two videos I shot on Wednesday. This one shows Josie right after she was born.
This is something I put together for a Young Life / Student Venture reunion a bunch of us had right before Christmas. It's about 140 photos set to songs we used to sing at club around 1996-98.
If you'd like to copy this slideshow to your own computer, just right-click this link and save it.
But a warning: it's a BIG file -- about 160 megabytes!
To just watch the video without saving it, click the "continue reading" link below.
One of my new year's resolutions: get caught up on video editing. Yesterday I imported all the video thru Thanksgiving, and hopefully I can get most of it edited before the baby arrives and life gets more complicated!
Anyway, here is a video I shot of Justin and Dad throwing the football around at Thanksgiving. I am sure they will be happy to see it.
Hear Jadzia, the world's future music superstar. She belts out the classics, like "Twinkle, Twinkle," and mixes in some of her own new material, like "Mary had a Donkey Kong."
All four of us are now back at Renaud Manor in Ferguson. The hospital stay was nice, but now we're in for the real grind... The baby is eating, sleeping, pooping, and crying all day long. So far Jadzia has been nice with her, and we haven't seen any huge problems. Hopefully it will stay that way. It's good I can be home to tackle Jadzia while Yoli tackles the baby.
Click the link below to see one final video we took at the hospital.
Yeah, so we took our time and left folks on the edge of their seats for a bit. But it's now (almost) official: our newest daughter is Ludivine Mercedes Renaud.
Our newest baby has arrived, and she's a girl!
Right off the top, let me say that she remains nameless for the moment, but we hope to have settled on a name by the end of today.
Here's her vitals:
* Born July 30, at 2:23 a.m.
* Weighed 7 pounds
* 20.5 inches long
If you click below to continue reading this entry, you'll be able to watch a short video of the new baby and read the story of our adventure.
Jadzia really likes to play with her dolls. It took her a while to get into them, but now she acts like a mom (or a big sister, which she is soon to become!).
Part of Jadzia's nightly bedtime routine is to call me at work and talk to me. This video from June is a good example of what she does.
Almost a week after Jonathan's visit in March, Yoli shot a little video of the woodpecker across the street from us. This woodpecker drove us insane for a while, waking us up too early each morning with its noisy pecking. She's shooting the video from far away, but the sound in the video is loud and clear. That might give you an idea of what we were dealing with.
The happy ending of the story (for us) was that the folks who live in that house had the tree cut down, and the woodpecker went elsewhere. We've slept better ever since.
We've accumulated a lot of video since late last year that we haven't gotten around to editing until the last week.
So, I'll be posting a few short clips that you might find interesting.
The first video is from my brother Jonathan's visit to our house back in March.
We've had several snows this winter, but today was the first time we were able to take Jadzia out for some sledding action. We put some hot tea in a thermos, dressed Jadzia in triple layers, and headed out.
We took her to the place my dad always took us when we were kids: Killer Hill in Florissant.
Since we didn't own a sled, we took our trash can lid. Unfortunately, it didn't work — at all.
So we decided to drive around and buy one. Of course the roads were still treacherous, but we eventually made it to a K-mart and found a nice blue sled. We drove back to Killer Hill and I tested it several times while Yoli fed a hungry Jadzia in the car. It worked very well and much fun ensued.
If you click the image below, you can watch video of us sledding:
I put together a couple short videos from stuff that happened recently. For those of you in San Antonio, we intend to make longer versions of these and other videos and ship them to you on DVDs very soon. (Viewing these movies requires the most recent version of Apple's QuickTime software)
After moving into our house, the first thing we did was have a birthday party for Jadzia. Her grandparents and her cousin and aunt and uncle were able to attend.
When we traveled to San Antonio a few weeks ago, we were very much looking forward to taking Jadzia into the pool with us. Here are a few quick clips of her in action. Please try to ignore the blindingly white dad next to her on the screen.
Okay, so Yoli has been playing around with the video camera she got for Christmas. Today was the first time we hooked it up to the Mac and tried to edit some video. I had an idea for one of the clips of Jadzia crying at night. Click the image below to see/hear the movie:
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