And We're Walking, We're Walking

Grant's "Walk Switch" turned on yesterday. Literally. He went from one or two steps and falling on his bottom to walking across the room. From one or two steps to as far as he can go in a straight line overnight. It is amazing to watch them grow up. Having TJ so far apart from Samantha I thought I forgot all of these little moments over the course of a decade of life. Not so. Watching Grant I realized that I can hardly remember TJ at this age; pulling himself up on furniture and bobbling across the room. These moments are so fleeting in the course of days as they turn into years overlaid with other events both big and small.

We started to capture those moments for the kids by saving all of our cell phone, iPhone, and camera videos on the Mac to make a DVD called Tid Bits - which is nothing more than five to sixty second videos in as close to chronological order as possible. Most are silly or nonsensical but they jog the memory and make Lisa and me smile.

The other big project I have taken on is to transfer all of our camcorder video onto the Mac and burning them onto DVDs. As I am getting better at editing I am cutting out the "oops" moments where the camera was left on, or for scenes that just go on and on and on. In twenty years DVDs might be as old and passe as VHS and laser discs but at least they will be there for the kids to upgrade onto the next generation of technology.

Now that he is walking we enter into the toddler years. Grant is a fast learner. He watches his big brother and copies his behavior as much as possible. The other night he tried to step up the stairs - crawl he can do in about 23 seconds (and therefore needs to be watched like a hawk) - but this was lifting his foot up onto the step and trying to get up. Same goes for the couch - try as he might he cannot get up there yet. However, when he is lifted up he sits at the end of the couch and puts his arm on the arm rest.

I love watching these boys grow up. I wish I had more of these memories of Samantha from when she was small although we did find a video of when she was two or three years oldand need to transfer that too. Anyone still own a VHS player?!