Little Mr. Chens

I taught a movie making class this year at St. Lukes school, a private school in the West Village. One of the assignments that I gave my students was to come up with a commercial. This commercial had to take a product, present the problem, offer a solution, and show how the product has made everyone's life easier. In the original assignment, I told them that they HAD to use an already existing product. But when they came up with the idea of a Little Mr. Chen, I could not say no. It sounded too good to pass up.

The project allowed me to introduce use of a green screen and other special effects. Enjoy!

Week 25

We're now at our 25th week. Below is a picture of how big the tummy's getting. It's actually getting hard to get up from the couch without help and to walk up stairs or walk too fast without feeling winded and tired.

The baby's doing well. I started to feel her move and kick a couple of weeks ago. Now she moves around regularly early in the morning, midday, and then again around midnight. The kicking's kind of cool but when she turns or moves it feels really weird and alien. Leo still can't feel her kicks or moves though.

I'm also doing really well - this pregnancy has really been a blessing. No sickness or anything weird or alarming. Just tired a lot now since I'm not really sleeping through the night. Between the baby moving and me needing to pee all the time, I wake up every two to three hours most nights. Guess this is God's way of preparing me.

Leo's doing well too - see his video on his "training". It's really fun seeing him get excited and really trying to prepare for this baby. This baby girl is going to have her daddy wrapped around her fingers. I got to watch him change a diaper the other day and he's really getting the hang of it. He's also getting better at holding and putting a baby to sleep. yay!!!

Leo's Baby Training Part 1

Baby handling may come easy to some people, but the rest of us have to learn. I once learned how to change a diaper way back in middle school or something, but I have never done it to a real baby. Also, I've never picked up an infant before this year. Too scary man!

I had better start to learn some of this because in four months, it's baby time.

So my friends Mike and Oli had their baby Madelyn a couple of months ago. Mike is taking this month off to take care of the baby at home. I figured this is a perfect time to get my training in. Also, thinking as a videographer, I thought it might be interesting to document my learning experience. There might be some drama to capture. Well, the month's not over, but you can see what I've been up to.

Memorial Day Weekend

We're trying to live it up before the baby girl arrives. Who knows if we'll be able to rent a house with our friends for a weekend again.

This video shows the first two days of our weekend in Jersey and the adventures that went with it. Kudos to Ken for keeping a sense of humor while Val spreads false rumors.