Friday, July 3, 2009

Little Grace

For Mothers' Day and my birthday this year, I asked Rob to go through all of our unedited video and, you know, edit it and stuff. It has been such a delight to find it all and get these glimpses into our life from many months ago. It was NOT such a delight to discover that our video of Grace's first year of life has disappeared into the ether; we are pretty sure that it got transferred from tape to a hard drive at some point and then after being ignored for years that hard drive got formatted or something. I feel pretty sad about it, but we are drawing the lesson from our mishap that we really have to stay up-to-date on editing the video if we don't want it to get lost.

This video covers from the spring just past Grace's 1st birthday until when she was about 18 months old, so about two years ago. I have talked a big talk in the past about not really missing Grace as a baby and not feeling sad about the past being past, but I will admit that these videos make me ache with nostalgia for the way she talked, the way she wanted to be held all the time, and for heavens sake the way she walked. Her newbie toddle just KILLS me.

3 comments:

Christy@pipandsqueak said...

I will have to ask for that too. ALl of our videos are still on tape or the camera. Some are on the computer but we have done nothing with them. What program did you use to edit them?

Julia said...

We use iMovie, which is pretty awesome and not too hard. Of course, I say that but then I make Rob do all our video editing. :)

Kimberly said...

Oh my goodness. That was so precious. Now I am so worried about the videos of our almost three year old as our hard drive crashed last week. My husband thinks he made CDs of everything, but still. We have NO photo/video organization. I upload all the good pictures to snapfish, which saved our butts, but still....

So cute! Grace looks so much like Violet when she was little.