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Thursday, September 11, 2008

A hard lesson

I knew I should have been doing it the whole time. I avoided it because it took too much time, I had other (less important) things to be doing, blah blah blah. And now, here I am with a computer that is gong to crash, me with wells of tears at the thought of loosing all of my most precious pictures and videos of my kids. When I close my eyes, that eerie "blue screen of death" haunts me. No, I don't have all of them backed. I am going out today to by an external hard drive to dry and dump all of my information. Don't do what I did.

Hence, I cannot post pictures for a while. Until our laptop is fixed (I am writing from our other crummier laptop which was resurrected from death, and no longer used to hold large files), or we get a third computer in 4 years.

Just for my own memory's sake:

  • Tuesday Joe Joe pulled himself up onto the toy box, then with jelly legs came crashing down and bit his tongue.
  • We went to the zoo yesterday, and we had so much fun! Sadie loved the elephants and monkeys the best and fed birds popcorn. Joe Joe hung out in the bjorn.
  • Sadie is exploding with language and understanding complex sentences. She loves to sing, and even as I write this, she is upstairs singing, " DO, RE, ME!" She has quite the repertoire which includes: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (dubbed Fwinkle Fwinkle), Happy Birthday, The Abc's, Old Mac Donald, This Old Man, I am a Child of God, and a whole list of made up tunes.
  • Sadie calls her brother "Doe-Doe" or "Yiddle Brudder"
  • With an arm in waving motion Sadie says, "Tome on, momma"
  • She uses the terms "daddy-bit" to talk about a lot of something, or "baby-bit" for a little of something. "I want to swing a daddy-bit" means she wants a big push on the swings. To her frustration, that one took me a while to figure out. When she uses the terms, she squints, raises her eyebrows and holds out her fingers to show the amount. It is very entertaining.
I will have to post just commentary for a while, so I understand if the number of visits I usually have goes down!

3 comments:

Monica said...

Yes, that is the downside to digital!! I am months over due with a back up....at least you can pull pictures off the blog!! Good luck!! Take Care!!

valumama said...

so sad about your computer and pictures!!! we have been talking about backing up for a while, guess we'd better get on that!
What a clever girl, daddy-bit and baby-bit, that is priceless!

Stacey said...

that's a nightmare... having the computer crash. we too have been talking about the need to backup but... :) maybe one of these days i'll actually get it done. sadie sounds so cute! keep the commentary coming!!