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All about the video these days...

How simply glorious that Flickr is now offering video upload capabilities!  As you know, I've been a loooong time Flickr user, so the chance to combine both short video clips (90 seconds max - just right for a 'long photo') with regular snapshots is just too convenient.

This is also on the heels of losing Video Egg video uploads (although I'm over that now) and testing out Vimeo (which I like very much and will continue using for longer videos), so online video has definitely been on the mind lately on a personal level.

So much so, in fact, that I just bought my own Flip video camera - so we never have to be without an easy way to film the Bunn and her ramblings/adventures.  If you haven't tried one out yet, the Flip has pretty much the absolute most simple video camera interface ever  - giving you less control than other cameras, but with a built-in USB and reasonable filming quality that doesn't always really matter.

Ella and the bathtime hairdo

Ella and the bathtub hairdo from happykatie on Vimeo.

A little Bunn Zen straight from the happyfamily's kiddo bathtub.

Meet Bimbo the Bumbo Safety Dog

Bumbo Seat has released a Bumbo Safety video gallery which I find to be marvelously hilarious.  Informative, most definitely yes.   But hilarious because (and yes, I am always this easily amused):

1. There is a small smiling dog (whom I have affectionately nicknamed Bimbo the Bumbo Safety Dog) in the video above that at first glance appears to be in a doggie Bumbo (to you 'normal' people = dog bed) which tickles me beyond belief.
2. Every time I see a baby in a Bumbo I chuckle as I think of the hard time we had getting the Bunn in and out of her Bumbo seat due to her extremely chunky legs. 
   
   1. Long story short - although safety is always first at our place, baby falling out of Bumbo was not an extreme risk for us.  There were a couple of times I was concerned she would be stuck in there forever as I had to use considerable force in extracting her to join the outside world.

There are more Bumbo Safety videos here.  Babies are hilarious.  So is Bimbo.

Dance party with the girls

 

Ella and I like to have dance parties.  No music required.

What you can't see is me doing the HyperMommyDance behind the camera.  You can thank me later for this and also the fact that I stopped singing the 'Cute Baby In The Bed' song prior to filming.