Here are some photos for you. Last Saturday we went into the city for the Cherry Blossom Parade. The weather was great and we had a good time. Coral really likes parades.
Then on Sunday we went to the circus. I thought this version of the circus wasn’t as good as the last one we saw. It had a fairly weak story line (I suggest no story line) and a very weak finale. I think a good circus is like a good fireworks show - you have no doubt when it is over. But Coral seemed to enjoy the circus so that’s what really matters.
I’ve thrown in some other random photos. Coral got hold of the camera for a while and snapped a few shots - not half bad!
Click on the thing to jump into the album with the full-sized pictures.
About a week ago Pearl started to babble. It’s pretty standard baby babble but we love it. First of all, Pearl has been such an “easy” baby - her temperament is just so chill that she doesn’t make tons of noise. Sure, she cries now and then but for the most part she’s pretty quite. Second of all, it seems like Coral learned out to talk when she was two weeks old - so it’s been a long time since we’ve had a babbling baby in the house.
It is very cute. If you respond to her babbling she usually babbles more - with even more expression. I think she really thinks she’s having a conversation with you. If you get a good babble conversation going with her she can go non-stop - except for the occasional break to flash you a super-cute smile.
Someone at work linked over to this video and it is amazing. It starts off kind of creepy - with a high pitched whining sound - but you can see that this is no ordinary robot.
About 35 seconds into the video is the first particularly interesting part. A guy gives the robot a shove with his foot. The robot weighs 235 pounds and is carry another 340 pounds - you would think the thing would fall over but it doesn’t. The strangest thing is that I felt bad when the guy shoved it - even though it’s just a robot (and it didn’t even fall over).
Then at about 1:25 in the video the thing walks out on an icy patch of the parking lot. It slips and slides like a dog or other animal would but manages to recover.
I’m not sure why I’m so amazed, and a little creeped out, by this thing.
March 12, 2008 at 5:38 pm
· Filed under General, Photo
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. Coral has a friend, Champe, whose mom does some work for a company called Handwriting Without Tears. Coral’s nanny, Kirstin, is also a photographer. Somehow, all that stuff came together with some kind of photo shoot and the result is Coral’s picture up on their web site.
Unfortunately, Coral did not get paid for this engagement but we’ll add it to her portfolio. I’m sure she’ll hit it big at some point. I can’t wait!
