Jan 10 2010

And Cupboard Doors That Open

Category: Anna's VideosChrisM @ 1:52 am

Since Anna started walking around (sometimes with holding onto furniture, sometimes free-standing), she has discovered the plethora of new and exciting items that open and shut. This has obviously meant that the drawers and cupboards needed to be emptied of sharp things, batteries, small things, breakable things. Well, emptied basically. Anyway, here is a quick clip of her playing with the cupboard in the PC desk. Since it was shot, she figured out that the postcard-sized photos were easily removable from the inside of the door if she just pulled hard enough. Luckily none were eaten before we noticed 🙂

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Jan 09 2010

Playing And Dancing At The In-Laws’

Category: Anna's VideosChrisM @ 9:01 am

Still on the 13th December, first we have Anna discovering again that the cats Irina’s parents’ house aren’t as afraid as Karra and Muska back at our flat. In fact Anna often offers up her greeting of a friendly head butt to the tummy, without the cats running away! Then we have a couple of short videos of Anna dancing in the house, and then a little clapping.

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Jan 08 2010

The Last Lucky Video

Category: VideosChrisM @ 4:26 pm

OK, not his last video, just the last in my bookmarks of Lucky21842‘s videos that I’ve been meaning to embed. It is of some proper celebrations in Almaty for Nauryz, shot last year I believe. Don’t forget to check out his new channel The District of Lucky. Rate and comment on any videos that grab your attention, and consider subscribing if you want alerts when he ups more clips.

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Jan 07 2010

Playing In Our Flat

Category: Anna's VideosChrisM @ 1:09 am

Back on the 4th of December, we have a tall Anna who goes onto clamber over the cushions, complain about not being allowed to hammer away on the keyboard (just to balance out the constant pictures and videos of Anna smiling and being good natured), Anna discovering that we hadn’t yet managed to find all the items that should be moved to higher shelves (the camcorder still seems to work), and unexpectedly not pulling the router down. Or if you prefer a slightly less long winded version, here is Anna playing in our flat.

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Jan 04 2010

Talking, Tidying, Tittering And Polar Bears

Category: Anna's VideosChrisM @ 11:06 pm

OK, you try completing the alliteration by finding a word beginning with T that means a polar bear. Hmm, OK, toys would have been a good fit, but perhaps a little too generic? Anyway, as I write this post Anna has again been practising her walking with nothing to hold onto, however back on the 26th of November, when these two videos were shot, she still needed a little more support…

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Jan 04 2010

Aunty Sveta et al Visit Astana Again

Category: Anna's VideosChrisM @ 7:07 am

Around the 21st of November, Aunty Sveta and her family came over to celebrate Babushka’s birthday from a few days earlier, and we took some photos of them together with Anna.

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Jan 03 2010

Video Of Anna Sorting Some Paperwork

Category: Anna's VideosChrisM @ 1:52 am

I’ll have to double check, but I don’t think any of these clips involve music playing in the background 🙂
It was recorded on the 13th of December, when Anna decided that some of the papers lying around were due to be processed prior to being recycled thrown in the bin as Kazakhstan hasn’t yet got around to implementing any sort of recycling system.

Anna is being told “ah-ah” to eating the paper, the tearing up part is allowed.

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Jan 02 2010

YouTube Issues

Category: PersonalChrisM @ 5:44 pm

I uploaded a video that has Anna dancing in it. In the background, you can hear the music she was dancing to at the time.
I’m hoping it was just an automated system that decided to send me a warning from YouTube.
The following is my reply to YouTube through their Dispute Claim. If someone really wants to ban my video, or try and make me pay, to show Anna dancing to Jingle Bells, BITFO.

User Name: AstanaClydach

2. This video uses copyrighted material in a manner that does not require approval of the copyright holder. It is a fair use under copyright law.
Our baby daughter is dancing to a Christmas tune. On Christmas Eve. I have not tagged nor titled this video with anything that would lead people to find it who were searching for the song. I believe the use of the song in the background comes under fair use. The video is still apparently available, dispite what I’m forced to type in the statement of good faith box below.

Signature
Christopher Merriman

Statement of Good Faith
I have a good faith belief that the material was disabled as a result of a mistake or mis-identification and that I am not intentionally abusing this dispute process.

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Dec 20 2009

Exploring New Lands

Category: Anna's VideosChrisM @ 11:01 pm

Following on from the post with pictures from the 4th of November, here we have three videos shot around the same time. You can see how she still liked to travel in reverse when the need arised, and that the cushions at the time were still in place around some areas of the living room. By the looks of it, Muska had not yet noticed the kitchen was no longer Anna-safe, and decided to hide under the table to see what would happen.

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Dec 20 2009

Remote Control Motivation

Category: Anna's VideosChrisM @ 7:16 am

As you`ll know from the previous posts, Anna was already happy not only pulling herself up to a standing position, but also walking around a little. However, she had not really decided that crawling forwards was worth a lot of effort. Backwards crawling mixed with rolling from front to back and so on seemed to get her where she wanted. Around the the time these videos were shot (1st November), we discovered the best way to encourage a more normal direction of travel whilst crawling were the plethora of remote controls that hang around our TV stand, begging for interaction. Irina cleaned them all properly first, and we made sure all battery covers were properly secure, and then let Anna play. We did initially try telling her NO when it came to play with the controllers, but this only seemed to add to the thrill of grabbing them when we were not looking and then crawling off with them. We are hoping that allowing supervised play (with a battery removed if we are actually watching something at the time) will lead to eventual boredom with them.
So we tried the same whilst in Chubary, and shot these videos for posterity. You can also see Anna has improved her reaction times and co-ordination already, as she slips whilst leaning on the toy horse seat, and manages to catch herself before hitting the floor or kitten 🙂
Oh, and in case you have noticed the last few posts have no abbreviations, I am typing these from the laptop, remote controlling into a PC at the in-laws. I am remoting in because Anna is starting to wake up through the night again, when we are not at home, and if I am clicking away on the PC, it lets her know someone is awake, and it is worth her crying until someone plays with her. The lack of apostrophes? This is down to who knows what, but if I type one on the laptop keyboard, it comes out as a ` on the upstairs PC. Why not just type on the laptop onto the dashboard for this blog directly? Because I need to move files on the hard drive around after each post, and the hard drive is currently misbehaving, I don`t want to risk disconnecting it right now.
Enough of the long winded unnecessary explanations, onto the videos.

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