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Our camera suddenly stopped working two days before Christmas, so in order to have a camera to take pictures of our kids opening gifts on Christmas morning, we made a quick craisglist purchase on Christmas eve. I really wanted a camera that could take videos, and the camera we purchased has that capability. I was surprised to find out that the new camera does not record sound with the videos. So, I have three videos to post today, but none of them have the sound of what was going on at the time. We added music to two of them, which should make them a little more enjoyable to watch.

Erik Learns to Crawl!

Erik turned 10 months old on Friday, and he celebrated by crawling. He had made a few good attempts in the days leading up to Friday, but he had his first repeated successes on that day. He is crawling more and more each day and learning to explore. In the last few days he has also perfected the art of pulling himself up to standing, and has made a few attempts to “cruise” (take steps while holding on to furniture). At the rate he is moving through these motion milestones, maybe we can expect him to be walking before his birthday rolls around!

Ice Skating at the Park

Madeline is learning to ice skate, and we took a family ice skating trip to nearby Powderhorn Park on Sunday afternoon. I ice skated too, but I had the camera the whole time, so my skating does not appear in the video, unfortunately. Erik got to ride along in the stroller!

Just for fun: Madeline dancing

This is a common sight at our house — Madeline dressing up in her “princess clothes” or “fancy gowns” and putting on dance shows. She was singing too — this video really would have been a lot better with sound!

(For anyone who cares, Tony put together the Ice Skating video using a trial version of some video editing software. I made the crawling video using the video editing tools on eyespot.com. I tried to do it on the youtube remixer so that all our videos could be there, but I couldn’t get it to work for me. If you have just a little bit of video editing you want to do, eyespot is a good bet — it is pretty easy to use!)