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In addition to my incredibly long summaries that aren’t even half finished, I now have an incredibly long highlights video of our mediocre video footage. But, you know what? All of this stuff makes me happy, and I can look back and relive it through the posts and video over and over. The quality of the video suffered with the scaled down version uploaded to YouTube. Oh, well. You get the idea.

Video moments:
0:08 – My dad ziplining
0:23 – Jason ziplining
0:33 – Melissa ziplining
0:43 – Jason on the FlowRider
0:54 – Maddie dancing in Central Park
1:05 – Cullen dancing at breakfast
1:20 – Maddie dancing crazy in the Promenade
1:28 – Flash mob clips
1:55 – 70s dance party clips
2:04 – Belly flop finale
2:07 – Bartending Demo
2:10 – Qwest clips
2:24 – Italian night
2:31 – Cullen attempts the head waiter’s “mouse” napkin trick
2:48 – Carousel clips
3:33 – Parade clips
3:45 – Character breakfast clips
4:23 – Maddie dancing with Fiona
4:45 – Fountain shows

I usually like to keep my video clips under a minute, or as close as possible, but I wanted to put together several of their Christmas performances into one video. Maddie’s classroom performed a concert at school, but we were on the cruise when it happened. They had been practicing for weeks. Maddie gave us a private performance the night before the cruise.

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It’s mostly Maddie singing songs, but Cullen has a few cute moments and some singing of his own towards the end.

I’ve been meaning to post this video, taken at about 2am during this year’s That Board Gaming Thing in September. I think a karaoke machine is in order next year.

I posted this video to YouTube a while back, but I forgot to link it onto the blog. It’s just a little video from Maddie’s birthday party at the museum. Click on the original post to see the embedded video.

Cullen’s walking and talking has taken off lately. We have a few more (bad quality) video clips of Cullen-Man walking. Click on the post to see the embedded video.

Cullen’s favorite activity right now is pushing Maddie’s baby doll strollers around the house. This is an activity that frustrated him at first, but he’s learned how to maneuver the stroller around corners, back it away from the wall, and remove obstacles. Maddie and Cullen have so much fun strolling around the house and going “shopping.” They pick up random items and put them in the strollers as if they were shopping carts. Cullen mimics his sister and does the same thing. He also will say, “Pooh!” and go across the room to get him to put him in the stroller. It’s very sweet!

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Last week, Maddie drew our family for the first time. The first drawing was done in crayon on a scrap sheet of paper with stuff on the back. It was pretty difficult to see as the marks were light and the print on the back showed through as well. I asked her to draw another one using marker and a fresh sheet of paper.

I loved the result!

She had running commentary the entire time that she was drawing. I took video of her creating the masterpiece. It’s a little long, but I found so much of it so amusing that I couldn’t cut too much! I love her little thought process. Click on the post to see the embedded video.

I’ve obviously been sorting through semi-recent videos and putting them together. This one combines videos from two music sessions in November and December 2010. Cullen loves his music teacher, Nelle! He gets so excited to see her, and he gets upset if he sees her and can’t sit and listen to her music. I love it! He’s only seen shaking his rattle in the first few seconds of the video (in the title frames), but he was shaking it like crazy before I ran to get my camera. Oh well, I included it for our memories of the “shake your rattle” song. We sing that song around the house all the time. Cullen loves it! Click on the post to see the embedded video.

My in-laws fulfilled a dream and opened their own shop in Lexington, Kentucky. They have had their book and wood art businesses for years, and they are excited to combine them into one physical shop. They have a partnership with a few other Kentucky artists as well. At ShambroLa, you can find a variety of unique gifts in the form of books, artwork, jewelry, ornaments, and more. Their shop is located at 208 West Maxwell Street in a charming shotgun style house in the historic district. We saw ShambroLa for the first time when visiting last Thanksgiving, and we were very impressed with how nice it was! They did a wonderful job with it, and I took some videos during our visit. Please enjoy this tour of ShambroLa! Click on the post to see the embedded video.

During our Thanksgiving trip, Cullen got a hold of Maddie’s Winnie the Pooh (a few times). He had so much fun with Pooh! This was the first time that he had shown interest in a stuffed animal. Cute boy! Click on the post to see the embedded video.