OK, so this is something completely new and exciting for us. In the course of my (Tom’s) journalism studies at USC, I have learned how to record and edit audio, and have dabbled with video. Up at school, we were taught how to make audio slide shows to tell a story, and last week I received my first high-quality recorder in the mail. I have used it several times so far, including last Thursday, when Dori and I sat down with our 19-month-old niece, Lorelai (who has been featured here plenty of times before).

Lulu, as she is known, has been pulling new words out of thin air for the past couple of months, and her lexicon has at least 100 clearly identifiable words in it as of this week. In another six months, much of the baby talk will be gone. So we decided to record it, now, at the height of its cuteness. We missed a few words, to be sure, but we captured most of the sounds that make us smile whenever we’re around Lorelai, and we’ve set them against a backdrop of her most recent pictures, taken at Buddy Todd Park on Thursday.

Enjoy.