Movies for Monday!

I've been meaning to post videos for a while now, so these span the past couple of months. So, before viewing...

I apologize if these seem boring to you in parts. I did my best to just pick clips that are the ultimate in cuteness and keep them short, but I also needed to document a few things for myself and my kids since I've been slack on the videos lately. Plus, I happen to think that each breath my kids take is the most adorable, incredible, ridiculous thing around, so, there is some bias.

So, there you have it...enjoy!

Love her giggles...


A taste of Keelyn starting to talk...favorite words still include "yeah" and "uh-oh" as heard here...


Hailey likes to help out with Keelyn as much as she can, which often includes doing things that Keelyn doesn't really need help with any longer. Anyway, this is how we ate dinner the other night...

After Hailey's orientation for preschool, she talked all day long about her fun time...but would NOT allow me to video tape it...so here she is telling Andrew, unaware that I have turned the camera on. Note how she refers to the little note her teacher gave her with a lollipop attached as her "orientation"...precious...


Keelyn's favorite game in the kitchen...can last a long time...


This day, Hailey finally decided to continue telling me her story once I turned the camera on. I was so excited to get a good video that illustrates her current use of language and her inflection. This is how she talks all day long, and it still tickles me. FYI, she is talking about taking her kids in the car (on the couch beside her) to a hotel where she is having a hard time getting them to sleep. Sound familiar?...


I like this one for Keelyn's talking a bit, even though I kind of have to coax her along. She is amazing to me at 19 months today. When I'm not behind the camera, she offers up a lot more words...she's extremely conversational, and can name just about everything we see on a daily basis...


And last of our current videos is Keelyn's little dance. She does this a number of times a day...like when she is excited to eat lunch, happy to have a clean diaper, or just plain old happy in general. She will now do it on command if you ask her to show you her jig. She's been doing this since she learned to walk...


You might notice there are a few more of Keelyn than Hailey. A reflection of Hailey's utter refusal to continue on with daily life when a camera emerges lately. She turns into a crazy little goon. Hails, I'm sorry. I wish I'd had my little point and shoot video when you were a baby...and I wish I had this blog...and I wish I had a quick way to pull the nice videos we have from the big old camera off so that they could be posted here...but I don't. Instead, I am re-posting a few at the end here of when Hailey was just a little older than Keelyn is now, because I am in a MOVIE MOOD, and they are so damn cute. Did I mention that already? I spent a lot of time looking through old movies of Hailey a few weeks ago when she started preschool, and I just can't believe it.

So out of the vault, I bring you some singing from Hailey somewhere around 24 months old. So adorable...I can't believe how long ago it was and how it feels like last week. And I can't believe that her baby sister will be singing like this soon. Incredible.

Twinkle Twinkle...


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