SeaWorld

Cassie jumped on a trampoline, supported by bungee cords, and loved it



We also saw a terrific show.

In the tub

A girl's first bulletproof vest!

Purim Parade at the JCC

Purim: Cassie focuses on what's most important (the cookies)

Cassie focuses on what's important from jdauerbach on Vimeo.

Playdate!

Happy Birthday Grandma Elly!

This file will also be on Vimeo here, though it may not be available there until the morning.

Also: you may enjoy the comparison to last year's video. Cassie is a big girl now!

Fishing in the tub!

Higher-resolution version is available here

Sweet potatoes (higher quality version)

Yum! Sweet potatoes! from jdauerbach on Vimeo.

YouTube version is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z7dIXkHuUI

Cassie feeds The Viv

Skiing videos!

(I moved the videos over to YouTube, so they should work now!)

Eating Oreos by the pool

Reggaetón

Hanukkah!

Cassie is Jewish. And she assumes every else is as well. This morning, on the walk to school, she pointed to a Best Buy truck and said "Look! Issa dreidel truck!" You can't fault her logic:



Unrelated: this morning, right after Cassie woke up, she said to me: "I was angry yesterday when James took the penguin from the snowy coast." Nicole confirms the account. James and Cassie apparently had a real difference of opinion about the Fisher Price Little People Zoo. Cassie knows where penguins belong, and she's not shy about expressing it.

An hour without the harness

Missing children!

Paging Doctor Pavlik!

Here, at last, is a video of Vivian in her Pavlik Harness. She's also wearing a diaper and two socks (not, I'll note, on her feet).

One month old

Vivian learns how to dance!

On the couch

Playground videos from last weekend

Vivian ready to go home from hospital

Nicole and Vivian came home on Friday; below is a video shot mere moments before Vivian breathed fresh air (or, at least, what passes for fresh air around here) for the first time.



As I did with Cassie, I walked home from the hospital with Vivian, this time with Charlie along for company. It was fun.

Somewhat like a tree sloth...

Cassie at ballet

I think Cassie's performance at ballet class is really just an attempt to push Vivian below the fold:

Warming up

First Vivian video!

Happy Birthday, Cassie!

Blueberry picking and more

This one is a bit longer (and more boring) than most of my videos, but I figure Cassie's dedicated fans will suffer through it:

Cassie eats a tasty apple

Ice cream is not the only tasty food, and not the only food best eaten nude:

Ice cream cone! Yum!

In a basket

In the pool in Roxbury

At the zoo (last weekend)

Cassie is a ballerina!

Now that Cassie is enrolled in a ballet class, she has the outfit to match (including shoes!) and, of course, the right attitude:

Trying new video format

This is really just a test, so I can adjust the website to accommodate larger videos

Happy Father's Day, Tata!

Cassie splashing

On June 2, we spent some time splashing in a fountain at the playground. Here's a brief glimse.

Cassie and Lyra at botanical garden

Hopscotch!

Championship long jump team!

Zoe, Berkeley, and Cassie are amazing at the long jump:

Headphones!

Nicole bought Cassie headphones to use on the plane ride to California. We tested them out before we left. They worked:

Happy Birthday Grandma Elly!

Sliding!

Today's theme: going down slides, in the basement laundry room and at the Children's Museum.

Cassie in a fancy dress!

A couple weeks back, Cassie decided she wanted to wear a dress. So she did.

Cassie has learned to read (well, not really)

Cassie "reads" Clifford's Bathtime, a book that she loves and so has memorized. She's sitting on the potty, and says "pee pee" at one point, so she will curse me for this video when she is a teenager.

Why is Clifford running away? Because it's bath time.
Clifford doesn't want to get in the tub.
But he likes when Mommy soaps and scrubs him.
Now it's time for fun. Clifford floats on a bar of soap.
Oh, no! Puppy overboard!
Ducky comes to the rescue.* Clifford is safe.
Now it's time to come out, but Clifford wants to stay and play.
At last, Clifford is clean and dry. He really likes bath time.

* OK, so she missed this line!

Thank you, Rita and Dan!

In this video, Cassie takes a break from her nutritious snack of fries and a pink cupcake to open a present from Rita and Dan...

Cassie identifies animals

Here's Cassie identifying animals in the book Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? She mentions a bald eagle, a water buffalo, a black panther, a red wolf, a whooping crane, a Macaroni penguin, and a sea lion.

Cassie tries to jump rope, in Bethesda.

I'm a bit tardy in posting this one, but it's a good one:

Cassie still likes ice cream

While summer is long over, Cassie's love for ice-cream cones continues.

Boo-boo feel better!

A co-worker of mine gave Cassie a packet of Post-It flags, which Cassie quickly determined were best used as pretend Band-Aids. At home, now, all of our boo-boos feel much, much better.

Jumping! Counting!

Cassie is trying very, very hard to learn to jump. She just hasn't quite figured it out yet. Maybe she should stop trying to jump and count at the same time...

Cassie needs the camera!

Cassie has an unbelievably long attention span, and spent close to an hour playing with Play-Doh on the kitchen floor. I put an end to her fun by bringing out the camera, which is even more interesting than Play-Doh.

Cassie gets a tricycle!

Cassie got a tricycle for her second birthday, and was pretty excited about it.

Two videos from our weekend in Bethesda

Some Zoe and Berkeley Videos

More New Videos!

OK, so it's been two months since the last post. Things have been busy. But I'll try to make up for it with four new videos:

On Friday (12/22), Lois gave Cassie a new present. Cassie intently watched as Nicole unwrapped it, and then played with it herself (in between moments of dancing while seated). Then, on Sunday, I shot this video of Cassie at the playground. Today Cassie helped Nicole mail some New Year's cards.

Cassie nursing

Cassie is extremely earnest when she nurses.


Edit: Alternative format

What it's like when Cassie won't sleep

There are times, of course, when she screams. But we shouldn't overlook the times when Cassie is quite friendly but entirely uninterested in sleeping. Those moments may lack the overt drama of a good screamfest, but they have their own particular dramatic pleasures and pains:

Cassie compared to a monkey

A few weeks back, Phil came over to hang out with Cassie and us. While he was here, and for the sake of future measurement, we compared Cassie to a pink stuffed monkey. We hope you find it helpful.