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Callooo! Callay! He Chortles in His Joy
One of Z's favorite songs is Jabberwocky. (I sing it ttto The William Tell Overture. Really, it works.)
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Vocal Chords
Z wanted to know what his body does when he's coughing. We ended up looking at a lot of videos of lungs and vocal folds, and came across this. Such a beautiful sound from such a less-than-beautiful body part. Amazing. (Don't click if squishy internal body stuff icks you out. Sorry about the embed image.)
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Matryoshka!
Z has recently become interested in taking pictures. Combined with the recent resurgence of interest in Russian nesting dolls, it's resulted in watching a lot of stop motion videos of dancing matryoshka on Youtube. In trying to explain to Z what stop motion is, and how it's achieved, I thought...hey, we have a camera. And Russian nesting dolls ( Read more... ) -
Dia de los Muertos
The Atlanta History Center turns out to be right down the road from us, and they were hosting a Day of the Dead festival this weekend. Hey, skeletons and multi-culturalism, right up my alley, so I dressed both Z and me in our skeleton shirts and set out to eat a little pan de muerte. (Gosh, that sounds better in Spanish. "Death bread" really has ( Read more... ) -
Nannyware?
For a while now, Z has been coordinated enough to work the trackpad on Aaron's old Mac laptop. What this means is that he can now click his own videos on Youtube. I can start him on a dancing Matryoshka video, and he can either click replay when it's done, or choose a different video from the sidebar suggestions. Yay, fine motor skills and hand- ( Read more... ) -
Another language? Sure, why not?
This morning I was drinking my tea out of a cup with the Chinese character for "love" on it. Z wanted to know what it was, so I explained it was Chinese for "love." Since I didn't know how to pronounce it, I suggested we look it up.
Z's reproduction of the tones is pretty good as far as I can tell--but that's not very far, since my Mandarin is ( Read more... ) -
R2 Hat: Final Cut
And here's the full costume:
The odd color on the shoes and the little trapezoid part on the front of the hat are due to the reflective tape. It's a much darker blue when it's not reflecting camera flash.
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