well here i am. alive and well with (remaining) wits intact after my, ahem, i mean, JUDAH's birthday party. amazing since i was only giving it a 50/50 chance heading into saturday. we had a ton of fun, the weather was perfect, judah was a trooper to the max, the food was awesome, and i don't think i ruined anyone's day with stress (portions of jesse's, elliot's and bob's, perhaps, but not ALL).
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my favorite part was showing off judah's birthday video that i worked on for about 2 months. i'm not sure if everyone else enjoyed it as much since it was lengthy (um, it could have been a whole YEAR long, though, if you think about it). but even after creating, editing and screening it myself, when i saw it on the big screen i got a little teary watching the 21 month journey play out over a few minutes. i have always been a sucker for slide shows anyway, music plus pictures just wreck me in the best possible way. so that helps explain why i just couldn't leave it at one song's worth of footage.
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i know the birthday boy didn't enjoy the viewing... poor judah: the kiddos were be-bopping around in the corner while it was playing and in the jumble of toddlers, judah got knocked over and slammed his head on the entertainment center. he bounced back quickly: figuratively and literally, but it definitely kept me from enjoying the whole video.
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i promised the grandmas that i would make it blog-accessible so they can emotionally binge on it over and over again. certainly i won't be doing that since i am not remotely nostalgic or in denial about my lil' bug being a one year old (not yet though, he's still a tiny baby until tomorrow, don't rush me!).
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you probably wanna go ahead and hit play and then pause on the second part if you plan to watch the whole thing so you won't have to wait for it to buffer and your judah experience will be seamless.
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*update: apparently pt. 1 has been blacked in germany due to copyright infringment on one of the songs (hall & oates, you stingy bastards!) so i am trying to put it up on facebook for my deutsch friends.
*update pt 2. got it through on vimeo. enjoy!