I want to wish a happy birthday to my adorable little genius of a nephew, Nikolai,
who is now 2 years old. My how time flies. I remember
seeing and holding him when he was less than a month old, what a
cutie.
I’ve only had the chance to see him one other time, when he was about nine months old and visited for Christmas. What a treat. He and his little brother
are two very big reasons I lament not living closer to family, as I
feel like I’m missing out on a lot in not getting to be a part of their
lives. All I can be thankful for is that he has a wonderful mommy
who is really good about taking pictures and writing about them and
their adventures and milestones. Thank you so much for that Peggy.
Anyway, I know Nikolai won’t really appreciate it now, but Barney and I are
frantically trying to finish up a slideshow we’ve been making of his last
two years, for his birthday. Barney’s computer refuses to
cooperate though, so we’re not going to have it up and running tonight,
in time for his actual birthday. Sorry about that. :(
But rest assured, it’s coming, and I’ll post it as soon as it’s
finished.
Happy birthday cutie! We love and miss you!
It’s finally here internet! The redone slideshow
(18.1 MB), so that everyone can see it, not just those who worship the
Windows XP Gods. For those of you who were lucky enough to be
able to see the original
(3.44 MB), I’d just skip the new one if I were you, because it may not
be quite as smooth, but a lot of that depends on the speed of your
computer I suppose. Anyway, it’s been made to be viewed in
Quicktime, which both Mac and PC can run, but if you don’t have that installed, go get the quick download here.
Once again, enjoy!
Ok, so at least three of you have had a chance/been able to watch the slideshow.
For the rest of you, rest assured I’m feverishly working on duplicating
it in a different program so that everyone can see it, yes, even you,
my Mac friends. You know who you are. ;)
If Barney’s computer (which is evil and insists on keeping me from my
slideshow) stops crapping out tomorrow, I’ll get it posted up here, so
stay tuned.
Ok, this is my first shot at trying to get videos or other fancy
slideshow type things to work, so let me know if you’re able to see
this or not everyone. You are going to have to download the Windows Media Viewer VERSION 10
if it’s not already on your computer, but it’s worth it to be able to
see the nice slideshow I made, right? ;) Just click on the
download button, and if it doesn’t start right away, hit the "start
download" button.
I wanted to make one like this with pics and music for Lindsay’s first
birthday, but there was just so much going on at that time that I
couldn’t get around to it. So here one finally is, a couple
of months late. Turn your sound on, close the other stuff
you’re doing so your computer will run it smoothly, and Enjoy.