London Learns Share

March 16, 2010

This will be a fun entry. I have been working with London on her physical strength and control. I want to feel confident enough to take her to the park and let her play with out me hovering over her. I still watch her when we go to the park because she is so little and there are always bigger kids running and pushing and I'm afraid she will get hurt if I'm not there to watch over her.

She just needs more control and confidence and I think most of that will come naturally with age. She is SO smart though. She can do her alphabet and count practically to 20, identify her colors, knows lots of body part names, she learns new words every day. So as a dad, seeing her mind grow I am excited. I've been asking around and my sister in law, Brittany, who manages a nursery and knows a thing or two about child development, suggested working on motor skills. That was all I needed--a direction!

So with spring fast approaching I took her to the playground near our house, which has a perfect little slide. We worked slowly and carefully on how to sit down and position yourself at the top of the slide, how to control your stomach muscles on the way down (I swing her around and dip her upside down all the time with a focus of working her stomach muscles a little), how to land safely and so on. So, last friday I recorded her success on my cell phone and the result is awesome.

She uses the handrails for the first time in this video and I think the rest speaks for itself. There was sound on my phone but I couldn't figure out how to get the video from my phone to the computer with sound. So I added some captions in Windows Movie Maker.

That's the reason for this journal entry. The rest of this is just some extra thoughts about what blogging on the Internet has become. This week Facebook.com beat out Google in terms of page hits. I think that's significant. Here's how it relates to me. I started my Website in October of 2000 to keep up with family mostly. It has grown to what most people would call a "blog" site. But I joined the Facebook wagon and enjoy it. They call Facebook a microblogging site because it's smaller entries. The good side of Facebook is its remarkably easy and fast and robust. You can add videos and links and it looks great, simple interface. The down side is that the little snippet-type facts rarely get more than a read from only your "friends". There's no depth or explanation, it's often abused by people who post things that are a waste of time and offer no information.

So, as a self-described Web content provider I love what Facebook brings but more of the quality of my personality is captured here. I have toyed with the idea of getting my Facebook posts to appear on my blog. I conceptually know how to do it, but I'm still not sure if Facebook would give access. I know they are picky about keeping content on their site, which makes sense. I don't want to duplicate my efforts but when I die I want this Webpage to be a good record of my life.

So the point is, from the article above, we know that the Web is a moving target. I may tie my Website to Facebook but in five or ten years it may be bankrupt or simply not popular anymore. That makes me want to insure that my Webpage will stand alone because I assure you, I will outlive Facebook. So, no matter how popular Facebook, or any other Website gets I assure you that www.CraigGreenwood.com will be here.

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