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Mon, 04 Jul 2005

Magnatune: We Are Not Evil
A while back, Bryan sent me a link to an Internet music web site called Magnatune. I've only explored the classical section; where I found a "Classical Radio Mix" that I've queued up a couple of times when we have entertained guests. It's quite nice. I haven't yet explored the rest of the site.

:: Posted by rus on Mon, 04 Jul 2005 8:20 am
:: Filed under /media/music


March 2005 Photos
My pace of updating our on-line photo albums was slowed somewhat while browsing through the pictures taken back in March of 2005. We snapped quite a few pictures... most of them were either taken during Eliana's 1st Birthday Party or taken during our family vacation to Tahiti.

Outside of those two events, there wasn't too much photo or video content to speak of; just one or two photos here and there. But what we did have for March 2005 I've now posted to two new photo galleries (one for Berkeley and one for Eliana). In each of March photo galleries, I've created links to the the Birthday Party and Tahiti photo galleries.

Here are some sample images:

You can review the full galleries either by accessing the "March 2005" links on Berkeley's web site or Eliana's web site or you can access the galleries directly:

enjoy!

(Update Fri Mar 10 09:54:12 PST 2006 // changed gallery URLs for Tahiti and Eliana Birthday Party)

:: Posted by rus on Mon, 04 Jul 2005 7:36 am
:: Filed under /media/galleries/2005


"I Want That"
Even though Eliana doesn't know too many words, she still can communicate some basic messages. One of them is "I want that". She does this by pointing to an object and then twisting her wrist (around the axis of her forearm) back and forth, which has the effect of moving her extended thumb from the 9 o'clock to the 12 o'clock position. She repeats this action until she gets what she wants (or she is told "no"). She does this quite often when she's hungry and she sees something she would like to eat.

It reminds me of what Berkeley used to do when he was the same age and wanted something. He would point at an object and then twist his wrist so that his finger pointed back to himself in one smooth motion (i.e. around a vertical axis). He would repeat it until he got the desired object (just like Eliana does). Sometimes he would use both hands for dramatic effect.

:: Posted by rus on Mon, 04 Jul 2005 7:21 am
:: Filed under /daily_journal/2005


March 2005 Eliana Birthday Party Photos
We hosted a "flower-themed" birthday party to celebrate Eliana's 1st birthday. All of the usual suspects attended (the Thurmonds, the Corays, the Sorensons) as well as our good friends and neighbors, Jerrod and Tracy Schei (and daughter Isabella). Kristy did a fine job with the decorations and the preparations (we held it in the garage). And Eliana did a fine job making a mess of her first birthday cake. She was spoiled with plenty of presents including a doll and a stroller which have turned out to be her favorites.

Here are some sample images from the party:

You can review the full Eliana Birthday Party gallery (which includes one video of Eliana destroying her cake) here:

enjoy!

:: Posted by rus on Mon, 04 Jul 2005 1:35 am
:: Filed under /media/galleries/2005



        

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