Our little girl is already 11 years old. She’s beautiful, hilarious, and smart as a whip! I’m so proud to call her my favorite daughter.
Tag: Birthday
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Sydney Turns 6, but Andrew Steals The Show
I’m finding that doing these videos on a regular basis is getting more and more difficult. And that’s too bad because the process of making these videos is so satisfying. I feel like I’m smiling the entire time while making them.
But time is always in short supply, and keeping priorities balanced is always a challenge.
This video took a long time because I was trying something new (I won’t go into it) and after several months of experimentation it didn’t work and I had to cut my losses. So the video itself is very simple and does not reflect the time I actually put into it.
At the end of the video is a special dance performance by Andrew. It may seem like a weird addition to the video, but it happened after her birthday celebration and nobody else danced that evening so he’s the only one that got the love on that. I think Sydney is secretly not happy about it.
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Little Lady Turns 6
Our baby girl turns 6 today! My how the time flies. Seems like only yesterday that the best surprise of our lives arrived and I fell madly in love with her.
This is her original birthday announcement from 2009.
Welcome Baby Girl – We’ve Been Waiting for You
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Sydney Turns 5… 8 Weeks Ago
There are so many things I was better at before having kids. One of them was finishing what I started on-time.
I started editing this video for Sydney the day after her birthday, back in late November (her Birthday was Thanksgiving Day this year). But OMG I thought I would never finish.
First, I decided to force myself to edit it using FCPx, because I’ve been curious about the recent features they’ve added. That alone added a lot of time to the process. Not because FCPx is bad… it’s actually perfect for these types of videos. But because I was learning along the way. At times I would hit a wall on something and have to stop to watch a tutorial on Lynda.com about the thing or two I was having issues with.
There was the lack of a lot of free time, especially around the holidays.
And, I kept raising the bar on what I planned on doing. It went from a simple cuts only stringer of the best of what I shot to a multi-segment music video of sorts.
In the end I was pretty happy with it, but if I had not already spent so much time on it I would spend another few hours cleaning it up more. But, sometimes you have to just draw the line and call it DONE!
So here it is, Syndey’s 5th Birthday celebration video. It had its family premiere night tonight and the kids all had some good belly laughs.
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Tomchak Twins Turn SIX, Receive Gift Of Chicken Pox. Film At 11.
The morning of December 31st Andrew woke up with a slight fever and not seeming at his best. Shortly after we noticed what appeared to be a chick pox blister on his face, and then a few more on his body. By the next morning it was pretty clear he had a full outbreak of chicken pox just in time to bring in the new year.
Andrew displaying his own constellation. Now a week later, all 3 have been sick with coughs and fevers, but only Andrew has had the pox.
Maximus showing off that he has no pox yet. 
So we wait to see what unfolds in the coming week, but with a little luck Max and Sydney were exposed to it enough to be immune, but will not have the full outbreak.
Maybe it’s in their genes somehow. As a child I was exposed over and over to chicken pox. While both of my sisters had it, I never officially did. But because of so many exposures to it, it’s thought by my doctor that I’m most likely immune.
All things considered (being sick, being suck in the house for nearly 3 weeks) all three of them have been awesome and taking it in stride. More often than not they’ve just been enjoying playing together.
Below is a short (and hardly edited) video of their birthday celebration. Being the awesome cameraman that I am, I turned the camera off at the exact time they were going to blow out the candles.
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