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vinnycactus

Monkey
May 27, 2004
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Matthews, NC
Emerson just turned 5, is in the 90th percentile for height and weight. Marleaux will be 3 in February. She's in the 50th percentile for both. Opposites in every way.

Emmi
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Marli
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Shyrmp

Nekkid Girl Gone Wild
Dec 31, 2002
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The suburbs of Mexico.....
We typically send a photo card for Christmas so I got the camera out to see if i could get a good shot for the cards. These are the first 2 I took....damn I have cute kids!
They are so cute!!!!!!!!!!

I blinked and now I have a four year old



She still thinks her little brother is pretty cool....waiting to see when that changes ;)

 

kazlx

Patches O'Houlihan
Aug 7, 2006
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Tustin, CA
My nephew Mason at the skate park with his Stryder I got him for his birthday last March. He'll be two this March. The push bikes are definitely the way to go.



 

kazlx

Patches O'Houlihan
Aug 7, 2006
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Tustin, CA
My dad and sister-in-law were skeptical when they found out what I was up to. I put him up there and he was riding around and came to the edge and starting eyeballing it. After a little convincing he did it the first time. After that, I couldn't keep him off of it.

Edit: not bad for a kid that's not even 2 yet...
 
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manimal

Ociffer Tackleberry
Feb 27, 2002
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Blindly running into cactus
My youngest entered her first Dual Slalom race this past weekend and did really well. She had to get over her fear to clean the first hit on the course:

Noah whooped it up against our neighbor but, having learned a good lesson from the older racers he faced growing up, he took it slow to make it not look like a blowout. I was super proud of his sportsmanship :D

and now that the man-child is just over 2 weeks away from being 13, I felt a photo-op at this restaurant was appropriate ;)
 

kazlx

Patches O'Houlihan
Aug 7, 2006
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Picked up the next bike for the nephew last night. Not bad for $35. Needs a little love and the training wheels taken off.

 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,516
7,063
Colorado


Tired little girl. She just had her 9 month check up and came in in the 100th percentile for height, and 87% for weight and head size.
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
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Mariko pic dump (born Jan 27 @ 36 wks gestational age, doing fine) in chronological order:

First few days in NICU:





One month:







Two months:





Contemplating eating and then acting all surprised while being burped:



 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,516
7,063
Colorado
Giganto baby returns in her new PJ's. Her new 18 month PJ's... and she's not yet 10 months old.
 

Jeremy R

<b>x</b>
Nov 15, 2001
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behind you with a snap pop
I complained not long ago that Rowan would not pedal her bike because she could not get off the Stryder bike. Those days are now over. She is riding the pump track, driveway and a little trail now. Such a fun time watching her learn.

 

jackalope

Mental acuity - 1%
Jan 9, 2004
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in a single wide, cooking meth...
^^

Superb, well done Jeremy.

Btw, how did you get such great resolution/quality with Vimeo? Do you have an upgraded account? I have the standard free account, and it won't provide anything over 30 FPS (which looks like chit), regardless of what the source file is.

 

Jeremy R

<b>x</b>
Nov 15, 2001
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behind you with a snap pop
^^

Superb, well done Jeremy.

Btw, how did you get such great resolution/quality with Vimeo? Do you have an upgraded account? I have the standard free account, and it won't provide anything over 30 FPS (which looks like chit), regardless of what the source file is.
The only reason that I have an updated account is because they only let you upload one HD video per week if you don't. With the updated account, the only "quality" difference that I know of is it gives you 2 pass encoding which is supposed to make it smoother. The 30 FPS is still the same. I shot that in 1080p/30 fps which seems to work well for low speed stuff. I still don't know what in the hell I am doing though. Some of my high speeds vids turn out crap. The most important thing to do with Vimeo is follow their compression guidelines. That really does make a big difference in quality. Cool shot of your little girl too!
 

jackalope

Mental acuity - 1%
Jan 9, 2004
7,596
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in a single wide, cooking meth...
[hijack]

Thanks, and good info. I recorded a Trace Ridge run the other weekend at 960/60 fps, and the Vimeo version looks atrocious. I figured 60 fps would be be better for high speeds (assuming you can ever call what I do on a bicycle "high speed"), but when I downloaded it to Vimeo it switched it over to 30 fps for me - thanks Obama. I then watched it on my HDTV directly from the camera, and it looked awesome (assuming you can ever call what I on a bicycle "awesome"). But I swear I've seen non-professional Vimeo high speed riding vids that looked quite good, just don't know how they did it. Oh well, I will just keep my sweet switch back blow throughs all to my self.

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vinnycactus

Monkey
May 27, 2004
636
67
Matthews, NC
Congrats man. And mark my words. The miracle of child birth is a miracle for the dad for about 3 minutes when you get to hold your child and have that holy ****, we made this moment. Other than that, the birth process is pretty gross :)
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
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My little monkey, shot Saturday when she was roughly 14 weeks old (+/- the 4 for which she was premature):