Old Billy's Brass Band Videos on YouTube.com

I found and uploaded some video from my old band, Billy's Brass Band, to
YouTube.com:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=richtpt

The quality isn't great because the software I used many years ago wasn't that good. If I ever

get time I'll recapture them again and repost better versions. But for now this
is fun. :)

Rich

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HOT!!

It got up to 104 today!  Our house was only 85, which was nice compared to outside, but still hot.  Fortunately we have a window AC unit in our bedroom, so that room is nice and cool.  Marci went out with some friends and I took the kids over to my parents, they have AC in their house.  We had a good two hours, then came home.  Both of them fell asleep on the way - whew!  I was able to get them from the car to bed without them waking up, so now I'm just waiting for either Marci to come home or me to fall asleep. 

Tomorrow they are saying if the clouds stay then it'll be 97, but if they break up, it'll be another 104.  97 is still plenty hot.  That's a bummer because we wanted to go to a Sausage Festival at Raccoon Lodge - but no way we'll be sitting outside in that kind of heat.  Hopefully it'll cool down by Saturday next week for the brewfest.

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Maddie's 1st Birthday

I FINALLY got around to posting the photos from her first birthday! There are some good ones of her with her cake all over her face. It was a great day, lots of fun, and she enjoyed the cake a lot. Enjoy the photos!

Jealous Brother and Sister

It's so funny how to watch Riley & Maddie get jealous of each other.  Riley has gotten jealous of her for awhile now.  He'll be ok when it's just him and me or him and Marci, or all three of us, but toss in Maddie and he suddenly wants to be with whatever parent is giving Maddie attention.  Doesn't matter what she's doing, he wants to be there.

Maddie now is getting jealous too.  I was holding her and she was fine.  Marci came downstairs and she was still fine.  Riley came downstairs and went to play with Marci, and that's when Maddie started howling, wanting down, went over and had to be part of what Riley & Mommy were doing.

We're trying to give each of them plenty of one-on-one attention from each of us, but it's funny to see them get so jealous.  It will DEFINITELY be interesting in another 5+ years.

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Maddie news

A couple cute things happened this weekend.

First I was holding her, we were looking in the mirror and I stuck my tongue out the side of my mouth a couple times, making a silly face in the mirror.  She turned, looked at me, then stuck HER tongue out the side of her mouth!  That was soooo funny!  Of course the laugh she got made her do it even more.  LOL!

Second, she was awake and Riley was asleep on the couch.  He woke up in a kinda grumpy mood, wasn't happy, almost crying, then went back to sleep.  Maddie walked (yes, she's walking a lot now) over to him and patted him on the head.  All together now, Awwwwwwwwwww!  It was soooooo cute! 

As I said, she is really walking a lot!  She'll crawl still but is wanting to walk more and more.  And climb things!  We'll turn around and find her climbing the stairs, or onto a chair, or the couch, or up on boxes.  She's having tons of fun and so are we watching her!

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4th of July

We had a great 4th!  Started with a parade in our neighborhood (it's been going on for years and we finally joined in).  Riley and Maddie had a great time riding in the very colorfully decorated wagon - I think Marci and Grammie Uchytil enjoyed decorating more than the kids.  Everyone commented on how nice it was.

Then off to a picnic with some friends.  It was a perfect day, not too hot, not too cold, not too windy.  The kids loved playing on everything and in the water and sand. 

Finally home to get ready for fireworks, which lasted aboutan hour and a half!  Riley loved it, though Maddie didn't.  She got scared really fast and we had to take her in.  She was very tired and fell asleep on the couch while we finished.  Poor girl, she did NOT like them at all!  Now we're all very tired.  Happy 4th to all!!

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