Here is the video of Liam in the dance recital. Someone else shot the video so it wasn’t on Liam and I the whole time. But you can still see how cute it is.
Liam’s Baby & Me class -Dance Recital 2009 from Owen Collins on Vimeo.
Summer: the beginning
It’s raining again. The difference is that we are in New Jersey instead of Virginia. Our epic summer travel has begun. The house is being watched, as are the dogs. So it is odd to be without some of the usual interruptions.
We already had our quick trip to New York City. Ann’s friend Joanna had her 40th birthday party. We got to go to that. It was fun to talk to other grown ups. I have discovered that I can actually carry on conversations with complete strangers and not be nervous. This is a new thing for me. And, true, in some situations it doesn’t hold up. But more often than not I can do just fine. In high school I was the kid that didn’t want to talk in class, and didn’t talk at parties. In most social situations with large groups of people I would just clam up. So I see this as a great step.
More details on the rest of the NYC trip soon.
Video of Arden’s Preschool “Graduation”
Here is a video of Arden ‘graduating’ from preschool. It was super cute. ENjoy.
The latest thing- dancing on the ceiling I mean Wall
Well right on the heels of finishing the Secret Garden (which went very well thanks) we are doing an Aerial Dance performance. And now it is getting some press. From a local TV station and a newspaper in Richmond.
Dreams made real
This is a clip from Eurovision, it is Fuerzabruta. I saw this group perform in NYC in October. Amazing. Imagine seeign these things happen right in front of you. That is the power of theatre.
Latest white house photos online
Now the latest pictures from the white house are online. Check out Their Flickr photos. If you are using an RSS reader this is their RSS feed
What I would do If I had more free time…
A Student’s Perspective of Teachers
More Doonesbury here.
Great list of “tools explained by a D.I.Y. er”
At the blog Dinosaurs & Robots is a funny list of describing the true nature of specific tools:
DRILL PRESS:
A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings objects across the room, denting the freshly-painted vertical stabilizer which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.WIRE WHEEL:
Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench at the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, ‘Oh sh*t’
The rest are here
Cool stop motion movie on YouTube
Cool stop motion movie:
I wish I had that much time on my hands.