Ian and I had a cookie-decorating fest yesterday in order to make Valentines cookies for Ian's class at Mother's Day Out. He helped with every stage... the making of the dough, the rolling and cutting, the decorating, AND the eating. I took about an hour's worth of video footage overall. No photos, but I figured hey, we had the videos to relive the memory.
So this afternoon, Ian and I sat down to "relive the memory." With our little handheld video camera in hand, we watched some of the videos on the tiny screen. I got the camera for Christmas, and this was my first time to use it. I hadn't attempted to download the videos, yet. I wasn't even sure what all the buttons did... but Ian figured out a few of them for me.
Gasp! What did you do, Ian? I see the "trash" button being pressed by curious little hands and somehow he even bypassed the follow-up screen, you know, the "are you sure?" By the time I grabbed the camera from him, I was staring at the trash can icon and a void where that precious video (of several that were taken) used to be. "Oh no! You broke it!" I reacted. Ian was very upset about it, too, but mostly because I then took the camera away from him and put it up.
Enter genius husband.
Who not only consoled me in my moment of despair, but also assured me that he would take a look and see if the file could be recovered. Somehow, I knew everything would be alright. I don't think it was an easy task, and I've encouraged John to blog about how he did it. But John found my lost video, hooray!
The ultimate plan is to splice and dice and make some sense out of all the footage I took. However, I feel compelled to share this one video with you... it's very RAW, I might add, and a little lengthy for typical blogroll viewing. But this one is special... because it was almost lost!
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I love it! It's crazy; I'm starting to see some of that grown-up-ness to Caleb these days. I can picture him dumping the sprinkles.
And hooray for John saving the video! Caleb loves to steal the video camera from me, but he hasn't pushed any button but the "go" button yet. :)
That's a neat video. I wish that technology had been around when my kids were little. Saves a precious memory! Ian is so serious about the whole process, and of course would rather eat the icing and sprinkles than the cookie itself! So glad John saved the day with the trashed contents!
Hmm, has anyone seen the surprise ending?
I did, but I couldn't make out what you were saying in the blackness because SOMEONE whose name begins with "Shel" and ends with "don" had the Olympic games too loud!
Did he get the icing everywhere? :) So cute! I'm looking forward to making cookies with Sophie this Christmas. And hooray that John saved the day! That rocks.
I couldn't really tell what happened. Did he pull the lid off in his mouth?
Yeah, he had the lid. Just didn't want him to swallow it or choke, ya know?
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