Delivery! Or, Happy Seven Month Birthday to Emrick!

OK, here we go!

So, as I said before, the other day I took pictures of Emrick as he was waking up from a nap on the futon. He looked so cute moving through the various stages of waking up: first the frowning and the “Huh? Whaa? Where have I been?” looks on his face, and then gradually smiling and going into explorer mode.

Anyway, as I was scrolling through the pictures on my camera, and going back and forth with some of them, I discovered by accident that a few of the pics looked really funny when viewed back and forth at a quick speed. That’s when I got the idea to animate several pairs of pictures. Of course, I have NO IDEA how to do that, so I asked Marcus if he knew how and of course, he did! So, finally, today I sat down and went through the pictures again, this time writing down exactly which pairs I wanted animated, and as I write this, Marcus is taking care of it.

So, behold: Animated Emrick!

Emrick is seven months old today (also 30 weeks and 2 days, also 212 days!)! He weighs 17 pounds and 4 ounces, and measures 25.25 inches. He is a proficient scooter and is into everything now. Time to buy some gates, I think! He smiles when I go to get him from his crib in the mornings, and he kicks and pants, literally, when Marcus gets home from work and greets Emrick with a “Hey, Buddy!” His favorite activities lately are blowing spit bubbles, squealing, scooting toward and then licking any shoes he finds on the floor, yanking earrings that dangle irresistibly from my ears, and laughing when I tell him he is “ca-ray-zay!”. In short, he’s perfect.

Happy Seven Month Birthday, Pookiness! We love you!

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    • Clark Morgan on April 16, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    First!

    Also, that’s kinda creepy Shoney Baloney. Perhaps you should try animating frames that don’t quite so obviously go together. For instance, Emrick yawning, followed by a tiger attack.

    • Shona on April 16, 2011 at 8:20 pm
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    “Emrick yawning, followed by a tiger attack.”

    Uh. Yeah. *I’m* the creepy one. 😛

    • mom on April 16, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    Worth the wait…..love the hair!!

    • cinda morgan on April 18, 2011 at 6:01 am

    “Panting”? – “Licking shoes”? – Maybe he’s part puppy.

    • Samantha on April 18, 2011 at 8:17 am

    I like sleepy eyes to wide eyes. I’m really wishing I still had babies right now. Happy 7mos Emrick!

    • Uncle Chris on April 18, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    Shona, back away from the GIF generator. It gives me the feeling Emrick has Starbucks in his bottle and is hard at work being cute even when I’m not looking…and he needs rest to be that cute. BUT if you must make the little boy’s eyes pop out and back in repeatedly, how about little Emrick animations and a scroll of blog entries at the bottom your blog, since you have decided to compete with CNN.

    • Marcus on April 18, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    You can always subscribe to the RSS feed if you can’t keep up 🙂 We aim to someday provide 24×7 live Emrick coverage.

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