Thursday, October 30, 2008

Happy Halloween!!!

Well, the monkey it is....



Norah has been braving some steps lately and we got some on tape. Norah is also very much into socks. We often find her with a sock hanging out of her mouth. I don't think she has them in her mouth in the video, but I used the socks to get her to walk!! :)

(well i tried uploading the video overnight and it did not work....i will try later tonight!)


Thursday, October 23, 2008

The video is here!

The videos are in for the Improv Everywhere thing that we did!

There is a video combining all four cities that they did the experiment in and then you can see all of the individual city videos. We are in both!

Look for me pushing the stroller in the Chicago specific one and we are marching in the battle scene and then we are in the combination one too marching in the battle scene!

It's fun to finally see the video. The voice that we could hear through the Mp3 is the one you hear talking in the Chicago specific video. They cut out some parts that I think did not turn out as well. Enjoy!

Chicago Specific video

Combination video

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Improv Everywhere!

This weekend was a great weekend of rest and relaxation, which was much needed due to lots of stress from life.

A friend of ours here Annette told us about this group called Improv Everywhere that was coming to Chicago last Sunday. If you click on their name it will take you to their website. Basically, they are an improv group of comedians that want to help people in the world have a little fun. They post what city they are going to be in, when, where you need to show up and any specifics that you need to bring with you. If you look at their website you can see the Chicago post. They will make a video of the day in a few weeks, so I will post that when it comes up, but we just saw today that they put some pictures up.

We met two other friends in Lincoln Park, strapped Norah in the Bjorn and joined the craziness! We had to wear either green, red, blue or a yellow t-shirt, download a track to our Mp3 player, bring a balloon and and umbrella. That's all we knew. You were not supposed to listen to the Mp3 track until everyone starts listening to it at the exact same time and they instruct you on what to do. It was so fun!!! Regardless of the rain, we had a great time. There were probably three hundred people that showed up! We are pretty sure we will make the video because of Norah! People were so excited about seeing her participating and she loved it!!! She was kicking and flailing all over the place. The main guy from Improv Everywhere was in the crowd and we saw him several times. I think he even high-fived Norah at some point. I know this probably does not make a lot of sense, but look at their website. I highly recommend watching the "Frozen Grand Central" video!!!!

Anyways, I hope you enjoy it. I downloaded some pictures that we were in. Oh, I forgot to mention that they have a camera filming it all from above in an helicopter and then a few crews on the ground.


You can see us in the front line there. We were getting ready for a balloon battle in a huge field. I am holding the orange balloon and have Norah strapped to the front of me! To my right is our friend Annette, Josh and holding the red umbrella is our other friend Lisa.



Here we are marching! I stayed behind and quickly cut to the right to get out of the crowd with Norah! I have never had lots of luck with big crowds and getting trampled so I decided to save Norah from the fate as well!



If you look down to the bottom right corner you can see our fearless leader getting ready for the charge!! ;)
 
I wonder how long it will take Rachel to find out that her husband wrote a note at the bottom of her blog. (July 9, 2008) ;)