I only have about ten minutes of video from the past ten days, and a lot of it’s great. I’d love to just cram it all into one movie and post it for you here, but it would have been 1.3 GB. That’s 56 times the entire storage capacity of my first computer!
So what I’ve chosen to do, in order to avoid further procrastination, is take advantage of something called the MS Moviemaker “Automovie” feature. You select the raw video, it makes the movie. Bada bing.
Blood relations can of course look forward to DVDs in February or March of ALL the raw video from this incredibly exciting and irritatingly tumultuous period. So it’s not so important (I tell myself) to put every frame out there now. Close friends, the only other people accessing this blog, can always ask for full raw videos if they want them, or can just relax at not having to sit through 10-minute videos of an obsessive father doting on his daughters.
And no one will have to download a video bigger than your average memory stick.
In any case, here’s the result of this first and hopefully not last experiment: a software-edited presentation if the past 9 days.
The texts and pix of the preceding blog posts should give you all the context you need, except for today’s addition: Molli Malou’s truly amazing breakthrough at the ice rink.
And of course a quick Maddie update: she was gaining weight so fast they actually had to cut her back, so she only gained 10 grams today. Her oxygen saturation is good but not good enough, so she’s still getting the assist. Her stomach seems to be getting better. She’s very congested in her nose, poor thing — and the automovie actually catches one of her sneezes. Her eye schmutz is finally fading now that she’s getting the right antibiotics.
Big picture: she’s doing great. Day-to-day, though, there are just all these little annoying things delaying her arrival at Hybenvej 1. Frustrating.
Trine is spending more or less every day with Maddie and I am spending most of every day with Molli Malou. I miss Maddie, Trine misses Molli Malou, but there’s no way around it we can think of. (Suggestions welcome!)
We will say goodbye to 2008 with great relief tomorrow, and very little, if any, fanfare. But with what joy will we greet 2009! Maddie could well be WALKING by the time her second Christmas rolls around, and based on what I saw today, Molli Malou will probably be doing breakdancing-on-ice by then.
Bring it!
