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16
Two quick things for today:
Thing the first: JB recently got a Macbook, after years (YEARS) of kvetching about how superior PCs were, and now of course he’s in love with having a laptop that actually, you know, works. One of the nicest things about us both having computers that don’t suck is that we can easily do videochats without the million and one technical problems that always came up before. So I got to chat with Riley last night and receive video kisses, which was awesome.
Thing the second: I made a little movie to commemorate Riley turning three years old. Which, uh, happened in August, but I figure as long as I got it done before the end of 2008 I still get the medal.
What? There’s no medal? Well, fuck. Here it is anyway:
Riley: 3 years from Linda Lee on Vimeo.
Made in iMovie, and featuring the saptastic tunes of Ben Folds (”The Luckiest”).
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Weeping. Copious weeping. That was so pretty.
ditto on the weeping
That was so awesome! It has inspired me to do something similar. :)
Amazingly beautiful! What a wonderful memory to share and for him to look back on. And yes, you DO win the medal!!!
Wow Linda, that was beautiful.
Perfection. Absolute perfection.
Hard to see through the tears….so I had to watch it again and, yup. it was as wonderful as I thought the first time. Your boys are so lucky to have you for a mama.
So beautiful! It made me cry!
How, how, HOW is it possible to get that sapped up about a kid I’ve got no attachment to and have never ever met? Gah!
Aww, Linda, that made me teary. *sniffle* I can’t believe he’s three years old! (WELL OKAY, three years and almost 3 months, but still.)
I want MY medal for resisting the weeping until the bitter (OH MY GOD SO SWEET WHERE ARE MY TISSUES AH EFF-IT HERE’S MY SLEEVE) end.
And I’m pregnant. TOTALLY medal worthy. (Both of us.)
Man I love the pictures you take! I wish I had my Nikon when mine were little. Beautiful vid!
beautiful…..I had a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes watching this….again….beautiful!!!
Did you use the new iMovie for this? I can’t seem to get it. The old version was so much friendlier for luddites like me!
So beautiful! So well done! So much cuteness…
That was beautiful. If I send you our pictures and videos, can you make me one? :)
The only thing I miss was the emo-pirate. But I guess that was after he turned 3, so I forgive you.
Great job…
Wow, that was incredible. I can’t believe Riley is 3, just like I can’t believe my own baby is 14. Now I need to go find the kleenex.
Hoo Boy! I started crying *before* I pressed play. I just started reading you when Riley was born. My baby was born in June of the same year and he was SO BAD and it seemed like Riley was SO GOOD. I remember one time you went to a hotel? I thought how can she take that little baby to a hotel? We would get kicked out! I have really enjoyed these last three years, living vicariously through you having a good baby who now talks normally and is on point developmentally. It makes me wistful and jealous, a little, but mostly so happy to see the adorable BOY that Riley has become. I hope this doesn’t sound too crazy!
oh jesus— heart and uterus exploding. my boyfriend thanks you in advance for my next ‘kids, soon? please?’ conversation.
Really enjoyed this. I never had thought about “The Luckiest” in this context (always was a first dance at a wedding type of song for me), but it TOTALLY works.
Your family is lovely.
oh god. big lump in throat. beautiful, linda.
That was really beautiful Linda. Thanks for sharing so much with all of us.
So sweet, what a great video. Thanks for sharing your beautiful family with us!
What a wonderful gift to prepare for him. I think he’ll treasure it someday.
Oh gosh, speechless here. He looks like such a GROWN boy in that last photo too. Fantastic time progression.
You really are talented at this stuff!
p.s. snickering about JB getting a Macbook.
The funny thing is how many of those pictures I remember seeing just like it was yesterday… I can’t even imagine much more intense that must be for you.
(and ps- I TOTALLY almost bought that foam sword this summer!)
Just lovely. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful. Don’t know if it’s my hormones or the fact that I now have one of my own, but I have happy tears streaming down my face. I love it. Your family is absolutely beautiful.
That was so beautiful!! Thank you for sharing. I’m amazed at how his face changed so much, but yet stayed the same also. His features are so wonderfully distinctive.
awwwwww
Saptastic and SO BEAUTIFUL. I love the photos of airborne Riley and cake-licker Riley.
I brought the cake to my nephew’s 3rd birthday this weekend and when he saw me come in the door with it he shrieked in delight, ran to his chair and cleared a spot with a violent sweep of his arms. Cups went flying and he was READY. It was SO adorable.
airborne’s my favorite, too. And my husband and I just got Mac laptops, and crud, are we ever in love. And I (or he) must do something like that for our kids. I’m currently struggling with packing a year’s worth of photos into my free Oprah photobook online, and it is a pain– but seeing this made me realize why it’s worth all this time.
So sweet. I’m gonna have to do one of those montages for my kids. And make myself cry.
THANK GOD for the picture at the end of Riley blowing bubbles in Dylan’s face because I needed a laugh to fight back the tears.
LOVE Ben Folds.
A+, wonderful momma!
More weeping in this corner!!! That was lovely.
I love your videos – whenever I watch one I always think, damn I should do that!
I’ve been trying to convert my husband to the Apple side for a couple of years now – and he’s just about to cave. I keep trying to tell him it’s for his own good, really. He just doesn’t realize it yet!
Very nice.
That was a wonderful video. You all seem so happy, content, and loved. I really enjoy reading your posts. I have 2 boys, 1 and 3 and am in love with every moment. You’re inspiring. Thank you!
Three. Already. I can’t believe it. Seems like just yesterday you disappeared and JB finally posted that you had to go in and have an emergency C section. Three years. Damn.
And also, my laptop is taking a dump even as we speak and going into the geek squad tommorrow. When the virus protection expires, BELIEVE it and renew. Duh.
Signed: Getting new credit cards passwords and my life is jacked now.
just beautiful. you are in the wrong business. your work should include you making these amazing videos for others.
The amazing thing about this world of blogs is that while I don’t know you, I feel as though I’ve known you forever. The proof…totally weeping at this video, encapsulated in your sweet world (don’t worry…not a psycho crazy…just, well, you know!). You have some very lucky little men in your life and one day Riley will be showing this to his children thinking dang I was a lucky kid!
Totally crying over here … great song choice!
Medal? You should get a mother of the year award for making something so wonderful to honor your little boy. He is a beautiful little boy and has been amazing to watch grow! Thank you for sharing him with all of us over the last 3 years. You are for sure doing something right as a mother. Hold your head high and be proud of the mother you have become.
OK now I am going to have to wait to watch this video until after I am home and have tucked the kiddies into bed. No need for co-workers to see me weeping away, or the kiddies for that matter.
Did have to comment though on the Mac vs PC thing! My hubbie is a graphic artist and believe it or not has been a hard core PC supporter forever…until last year his best friend and fellow geek got a Mac. Well it took him about 18 months and he finally caved and got one. Now it is litterally attached to his hip. He is such a geek that he video conferences me from the basement instead of walking up the stairs! Yeh Yeh and I still married him!
Riley is so lucky to be in your family. God dammit, I’m sitting at my desk sobbing. That was beautiful.
Great video Linda, I too have been reading your blogs since Riley was born and I can’t believe how big he is.
**Giggly aside** – LOL you just made a bunch of strangers cry, you are ALL POWERFUL!
Awesome! That song is amazing. :)
I just put my dang mascara on! Sheesh…
That was so, so nice. Don’t you just love being a mama?
I almost couldn’t watch the whole thing as the tears started to shed.
Thanks, thanks for making me cry at work as you have tons of times before.
And here’s your medal!
awesome….but no photos of “suspicious face”???
I really need to stop crying at work. Thanks!
It was a beautiful video – thanks for sharing with us! Now, I need to get my rear in gear & do something like this for my almost 3-year-old…
simply.lovely.
Damn you, Ben Folds. And damn you, Linda. My eyes are leaking all over my desk. I just love your family too much.
I was just thinking I needed a good cry. Way too sweet…
I absolutely LOVED this video…I actually got a little weepy. Yeah, seriously. I see Riley and Dylan with their father and, being a single Mom, it warms my heart to know that there are wonderful fathers out there like JB, who clearly adore their children, and it makes me sad and pisses me off a little that my daughter doesn’t get to experience that with her father. You and JB are amazing parents and I look forward to reading your blog every chance I get. Thank you for making my day!
Oh my. Just. . . . oh my. . . . I can’t believe I’ve adored (from afar!) that little guy for 3 years already.
It’s so weird getting weepy over strangers! That was terrific, especially the use of one of my favourite songs of all time. Wah!! 3 years, such a big boy.
Duuuude. Goosebumps. Can we be friends? I need to be able to suck the coolness off of your brain. Seriously. It’s possible, I’ve seen it in stories.
Really, really beautiful. You rock. (And HE is BEAUTIFUL. What an amazing splicing of genes you’ve got there. Holy crap.)
Holy God! Amazing…the best picture (if forced at gunpoint to choose cause they are all really fantastic)is the one of JB smiling directly into the camera while bookended by the boys. So telling of his fabulousness as a Daddy and totally fitting with the song as being “The Luckiest”
Nicely done, Linda!
PS Can’t believe how much he looks JUST like he did as an infant–wow!
*sob* This has been a really emotional day for me and then you had to go and post THAT. *slobber, schniff, whimper* It is a lovely video Linda.
That was so touching. What a lovely little family you have.
For some reason, watching this made having kids seem less scary. Thank you for that. You win a medal for making the cutest kids in the world! Seriously! Thanks for letting us peek into your lives…it’s amazing.
+1 with the tears… “I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you” slayed me….
How DO you do these wonderful videos?
Oh Linda, you picked probably one of my all time fave Ben Folds songs (I am a HUGE fan of Ben). And yes, it is saptastic, but I think that’s why I like it so much. Your pictures are beautiful. In the 7 or so years that I’ve read your blog you have grown so much. It’s amazing how affected a person can be by someone they’ve never met and never “really” known. I wish Riley a happy 3rd (belated, obviously). And totally bestow you the medal!!
Oh man!! I wasn’t going to cry and now I’m blubbing like a baby. You are the luckiest!!
So in love with your little family and wishing our boys could hang out and play (the smaller ones, not the bigger ones-JB would make G look like a total wuss).
Also? Totally wanting a copy of that song!!!
Linda,
I’ve been lurking here since shortly after my first baby — a boy — was born in March. Belated thanks, thanks, thanks for getting me through with a much-needed dose of humor and sarcasm on so many occasions. Most days, I have no idea what I’m doing with a very active, boyish boy. You’re so perfectly relevant in my world it’s astounding. As for the movie, I watched it (twice) with my baby Ezra, and it had us both grinning ear to ear. (Which is saying a lot, since he reserves that smile for his own reflection.)
Weeping…weeping…and I’m a cynical old broad. UNFAIR! ;-)
That – that was awesome.
I’m eating my dinner while waiting for my spouse to come home. The babies are asleep and I’m bawling. That was beautiful.
Crying over here. Kah-ryy-ing.