Old Home Videos

I've got a huge backlog of things to post, so be prepared for a whole slew of Christmas photos and posts once I get my pictures up online.

But first, I wanted to write about some old home videos we watched. My grandmother made a wonderful gift of putting old tapes that one of my aunts took at several different family get togethers on a couple of DVDs for us, and during our visit to my parents' for the Christmas holiday, we watched them together.

They were hilarious!

Some highlights:

During a Christmas get together at my aunt and uncle's house, you see my mother sitting on a couch when all of a sudden there's a bunch of thumping from upstairs. She yells upstairs, "LOCAAAAAL HEROOOOO! NO JUMPING!" After she yells, she looks back around the room at the other guests then starts and looks up again and says, "Oh, nice ceiling."

At this same family gathering, the cousins are all opening presents. My mother is wandering around helping clean up wrapping paper and asking us kids what we got. She comes to me and picks up a pink sweatshirt and holds it up to me and says, "Oh, who did you get this from?" I look straight at her and yell my cousins' names in her face.

Local Hero was kind of the star of the videos. While A spent a lot of time running up to the camera and making faces, it was Local Hero who was always doing something that would just CRACK US UP.

The two funniest moments were captured during video of a summer get together at my parents' old house. Local Hero was probably 4 or 5 at the time.

In the first episode, the camera walks into the play room, where a bunch of the cousins are hanging out and playing with all the toys. Local Hero is stuffing a plastic hot dog in my youngest cousin's face (he's probably 2) and then grinning to the camera and saying, "He likes it! He likes it!" It is freaking hysterical.

In the other moment-- remember, Local Hero is only like 4 at the time-- an older cousin is playing basketball with my brother A. This cousin is about a year older than Local Hero, and a year or so younger than A. Local Hero just jumps in the fray, shouting, "You're a terrible basketball player, Cousin! That was a horrible shot! You're terrible!" And then A gets the ball and Local Hero almost tackles him trying to steal it from him.

We about died laughing watching these videos, and all week we kept quoting or repeating these scenes. So hilarious. If I can figure out how to get clips from a DVD onto this blog, I'll see if I can't add actual video.