Those Chapmans – Page 117 – Out Of Their Minds Design

From the Mommy Phone Archives, Part I

I finally figured out how to easily get all of the pictures off of Mommy’s phone onto my computer. Actually I guess that’s not true… I finally had the guts to sync up Mommy’s phone with my computer, and it turns out it there is a treasure trove of older images to eventually place into their proper place in the annals of history.

So forgive us, but here we go, waaaay back in time. I’m going to skip out on captions unless I have something amazing to say…

June 18th, 2009 — with the daycare kids at a local park. See this image larger.

Same. See this image larger.

June 23rd, 2009. See this image larger.

October 13th, 2009… Ian’s first trip to a Chinese restaurant. If only we knew what it looked like. See this image larger.

Yay! See this image larger.

November 7th, 2009. Ian at Meijer Gardens. See this image larger.

April 18th, 2010. Ian falls asleep in my arms at Cinqo De Mayo. See this image larger.

April 19th, 2010. Believe this is the only trip to Playworld that I missed! Go kiddo go! See this image larger.

April 24th, 2010. Going for a ride on Sandy! See this image larger.

May 1st, 2010. The Very Angry Caterpillar. See this image larger.

May 23rd, 2010. It is when he knows enough to be scared and he isn’t that it becomes apparent how brave little man can be. See this image larger.

May 23rd, 2010. It helps when there’s a super fun happy slide at the top, though. See this image larger.

Happy 40th Birthday to Daddy

Hey. I turned 40. I get to celebrate it with a blog entry dedicated to that, right? We’re all cool with that? If you aren’t please feel free to write and ask for administrative access so that you can delete this. 😉

So November 2nd showed up on my calendar and I kissed my thirties goodbye. I then kissed my wife and kids, and had a good day.

Mommy, Ian and Nina got me some really nice presents and cards, as did many other people, thank you all for your kindness! Just so you know, if you sent me a gift I used it towards the gift mentioned below. So thank you!

Here’s a video of a quick dance!

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BONUS VIDEO!!! Click here to see Ian and I dancing all the way until one of my birthday presents arrived! This video was taken with my iPhone.
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What new present did I get that I dropped everything when the doorbell rang? A new LENS and a new CAMERA.

I had to wait a few hours for the new camera battery to charge up, so in the meanwhile I tried out my new “glass.” (That’s photographer slang for lens.) I knew immediately I had not wasted my money. She’s worth looking at in a larger image if you don’t mind clicking. -> See this image larger.

This shot wasn’t as good, but I had to get used to it. See this image larger.

Finally I got the battery in place and it was time to test out the camera. Some of these are the new lens, some are not — it isn’t a good lens for all situations. I took a picture of the cat as my first real picture to keep with tradition. After all, there was a point where he was probably our most photographed child. See this image larger.

Self portraits, ahoy! See this image larger.

Maybe a bit too much detail on this one. Guess I should grabbed a wipe. See this image larger.

This one’s a beaut, look at it large by clicking here -> See this image larger.

Yup, not bad…. See this image larger.

Pretty good smile, maybe a little too much cheese, kiddo! See this image larger.

Nina gets bashful! See this image larger.

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BONUS VIDEO!!! — One of the nicer aspects of this new camera is that it takes video. So no more lugging two cameras around. They are also high-definition videos and most important of all, whatever lens is on the camera is what ends up recording the video. So a fish-eye lens video is possible, wide-angle, whatever you can come up with. Click here to see a video from the new camera and compare with the video I shot earlier with my phone! A beautiful video of our little girl!
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Enter November

From my notes on November 1st:

Me – Come on.
Ian – No.
Me – Okay, stay in the bathroom all day.
Ian – I’m coming on.

November 1st, and little Nina doesn’t look quite so little anymore! See this image larger.

Around this time her head start tilting toward one shoulder again, and we didn’t quite know what to do. Given that her physical therapy had ended long ago, we started talking about her perhaps needing to go back. Eventually she seemed to right it herself, and it has been awhile since we noticed any further tilting. See this image larger.

I forget what Ian was doing here… probably messing with the iPad. See this image larger.

Look at our big girl standing up! See this image larger.

When I look at this picture I think I start to see Nina at an older age… probably a little more hair and a change or two, but you can almost see future Nina! See this image larger.