Monday, May 14, 2007
Mother's Day weekend
An interesting and eventful weekend. The highlights:
Friday after dinner, Pierce and Anna went with me to the Dollar store to buy Mother's Day gifts. There was a lot of foot dragging before we left with lots of protests from Pierce about how he wanted to play. But once we got there they both got very excited and picked out very nice gifts and cards. They were anxious to give them to Nora when we got home but I was able to convince them to leave the presents in the car until Mother's day (they tried to offer a compromise of giving their presents to Nora on Saturday). Since Anna couldn't give her gift to Nora she went on to describe it to her in complete detail.
Friday night we had movie night and watched Son of Flubber, the black and white sequel to the original Absent Minded Professor (think Flubber) movie. Pierce and Anna haven't seen the first movie, but mostly enjoyed it. But I don't think they'll ask to see it again. I was pretty disappointed, it was a pretty poor movie, but I'm hoping to introduce them to the first movie which I remember liking a lot.
Saturday Nora and I had our first engagement as wedding videographers. The experience was very positive. Nora had a reasonable amount of nervousness before getting started but ultimately enjoyed the experience. I think we've got some great footage and will start working on the couple's wedding video when we get back from our annual beach vacation in a couple of weeks. Speaking of the beach vacation, I'm still working on this year's highlight DVD. I'm trying something new for the opening montage -animation. So far the results are pretty good and I'm excited with how its turning out. I'm thinking I'll be taking this project to the wire -its very time-intensive.
Saturday evening we took Nora out to dinner at Outback Steakhouse. Its been awhile since we've been there (we've been going to Texas Roadhouse instead). We got seated very quickly and had a great time. Interestingly, Pierce and Anna tore through their dinners but showed little interest in their bowls of ice cream. Truly an unusual occurrence.
Sunday morning was a lazy one. We let Nora sleep in a little while I got up earlier to get the presents for the kids to give to Nora. Pierce wrote a sincere message in his Mother's Day card and illustrated it and, for the first time, Anna was able to sign her own card (legibly) and write a message with a little help from me. It turns out that she writes most of her letters backwards... We had a morning showing of another movie, Escape to Witch Mountain, which was every bit as good as I remembered it and was a big hit with Pierce and Anna. I'll have to pick up the sequel at the library for a future viewing.
Sunday was hot and sunny. After the movie, Nora met her Mom and sister-in-law for brunch while the kids, neighbors and I played in the sprinklers. Nora bought a couple of water toys that we also hooked up (the wiggly worm sprayer and the wading pool got heavy usage). Everyone was outside for hours.
Anna was in a funky mood on Sunday and it got worse as the day progressed. I think she set a personal record for the number of timeouts she received. Violations included playing with the water hose after she was told not to, throwing grass, sitting on the curb (on our high traffic street) and insisting that Nora give her the earring she had received from me as a Mothers Day gift. You could tell from the look in her eyes she was bound and determined to test the limits. It ultimately culminated in me putting her to bed at 4:00 in the afternoon (bath and pajamas included). I had the expectation that she'd wake around dinner and then we put her back to bed after she ate, but she never woke up. This morning (Monday) she awoke in a much, much better mood.
-Eric (Dad)
Friday after dinner, Pierce and Anna went with me to the Dollar store to buy Mother's Day gifts. There was a lot of foot dragging before we left with lots of protests from Pierce about how he wanted to play. But once we got there they both got very excited and picked out very nice gifts and cards. They were anxious to give them to Nora when we got home but I was able to convince them to leave the presents in the car until Mother's day (they tried to offer a compromise of giving their presents to Nora on Saturday). Since Anna couldn't give her gift to Nora she went on to describe it to her in complete detail.
Friday night we had movie night and watched Son of Flubber, the black and white sequel to the original Absent Minded Professor (think Flubber) movie. Pierce and Anna haven't seen the first movie, but mostly enjoyed it. But I don't think they'll ask to see it again. I was pretty disappointed, it was a pretty poor movie, but I'm hoping to introduce them to the first movie which I remember liking a lot.
Saturday Nora and I had our first engagement as wedding videographers. The experience was very positive. Nora had a reasonable amount of nervousness before getting started but ultimately enjoyed the experience. I think we've got some great footage and will start working on the couple's wedding video when we get back from our annual beach vacation in a couple of weeks. Speaking of the beach vacation, I'm still working on this year's highlight DVD. I'm trying something new for the opening montage -animation. So far the results are pretty good and I'm excited with how its turning out. I'm thinking I'll be taking this project to the wire -its very time-intensive.
Saturday evening we took Nora out to dinner at Outback Steakhouse. Its been awhile since we've been there (we've been going to Texas Roadhouse instead). We got seated very quickly and had a great time. Interestingly, Pierce and Anna tore through their dinners but showed little interest in their bowls of ice cream. Truly an unusual occurrence.
Sunday morning was a lazy one. We let Nora sleep in a little while I got up earlier to get the presents for the kids to give to Nora. Pierce wrote a sincere message in his Mother's Day card and illustrated it and, for the first time, Anna was able to sign her own card (legibly) and write a message with a little help from me. It turns out that she writes most of her letters backwards... We had a morning showing of another movie, Escape to Witch Mountain, which was every bit as good as I remembered it and was a big hit with Pierce and Anna. I'll have to pick up the sequel at the library for a future viewing.
Sunday was hot and sunny. After the movie, Nora met her Mom and sister-in-law for brunch while the kids, neighbors and I played in the sprinklers. Nora bought a couple of water toys that we also hooked up (the wiggly worm sprayer and the wading pool got heavy usage). Everyone was outside for hours.
Anna was in a funky mood on Sunday and it got worse as the day progressed. I think she set a personal record for the number of timeouts she received. Violations included playing with the water hose after she was told not to, throwing grass, sitting on the curb (on our high traffic street) and insisting that Nora give her the earring she had received from me as a Mothers Day gift. You could tell from the look in her eyes she was bound and determined to test the limits. It ultimately culminated in me putting her to bed at 4:00 in the afternoon (bath and pajamas included). I had the expectation that she'd wake around dinner and then we put her back to bed after she ate, but she never woke up. This morning (Monday) she awoke in a much, much better mood.
-Eric (Dad)
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