Tag: Maximus
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MSI Saturday – Video
Almost a year ago we decided to get a annual family membership to the Museum of Science and Industry, hoping it would be worth the $140 or so dollars. Looking back now, I can say without a doubt it’s one of the best investments we have made. What would normally be a very expensive trip with the kids ends up being no cost at all except for the gas to get there. Even parking is included! If I had to guess I would say we have gone there around 20x since we purchased the membership. It’s a great place to take the kids in the winter, or when it’s raining.
The place is so darn big that you can go on a regular basis and still not see anything twice, not to mention they are always having new exhibits.
Everything in this video was shot with the GoPro Hero 3+. It’s not a great indoor/low light camera, but it’s not the worst either. I was pretty happy with the quality overall. It’s so small that I just had it in my hand all day and turned it on and off as I saw opportunities to shoot.
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Professor Maximus And His Ponies
Director Maximus insisted on seeing the final cut twice before giving it his thumbs up. In recent weeks Max has really taken to roll playing as a teacher. If you watch him closely while he’s “teaching” you can really get a sense of what his day is probably like.
While he normally tries to recruit is brother or sister to be his students (Sydney usually goes along with it, Andrew not so much), this time he found comfort in a small herd of tiny ponies.
In case you’re wondering why he kind of looks like a pirate with a big patch on his eye, let me explain. We have to patch his left eye every day for at least 2 hours. We normally do this as soon as he gets up in the morning. So he has no eye injury, we are just trying to boost the vision of his right eye so that they’re closer to the same strength.
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Christmas In October! Thank You Aunt Shirley!
A few weeks ago the kids received a surprise from the mail man. Left on the porch was a box of joy, from none other than Santa Aunt Shirley.
It took us about a week to finally open the box (we knew we would need to set some serious time aside when they could indulge) but once it started they were all so excited.
And the occasion? Just because. Just because she wanted to do something nice for the kids. Those are always the best surprises.
Brenda decided to record and edit a short thank you video, and to the end of that I added a brief interview with Andrew where he discusses the various new Skylander characters.
We love you Aunt Shirley! Thank you so much from all of us.
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Rosetta, Meet Maximus
We are always trying new things to help Max progress and catch up what’s considered age appropriate. One of the areas I personally feel he needs the most help is with his speech. It’s pretty clear when you talk to him that he doesn’t master the English language at the same level that his twin Andrew does.
One thing that was recommended to us by his doctor in California, Doctor Goldberg, was Rosetta Stone. I like a lot of people are familiar with it as a software program that teaches you a new language. But it never occurred to me that you could use it to learn your primary language.
Because it’s very visual and interactive, it turns out to be a natural for kids. And because it’s also something you do on the computer, while wearing a super cool headphone/microphone setup, Max really looks forward to doing it.
We spend about 20 minutes a night most nights (nights that i’m not exhausted, late getting home and that he’s not crabby) and I can see improvements in him almost day to day. Certainly over the course of a week. It occurred to me recently that maybe I should start recording them just for a record of how far he has come. So, this is the first of those recordings. It’s the cut-down version of what was originally 35 minutes long.
It was a bit of a test for me to figure out how to get all of the different sources, and it turned out that the voice he hears in the headphones was not something I captured successfully. So, as you watch it may be a bit hard to follow since you’re not hearing the voice prompts. But I expect to have this fixed for any future recordings.
If nothing else, it’s fun to watch because he’s so darn cute.
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