Monday, May 11, 2009

Her day as captured by Polaroid

For their birthdays both the older girls received cameras from "Mia" and "Boss". These have been a huge hit! 'B' basically takes a picture of anything and everything and then immediately erases it. I would download some of her pictures, but there are none to take off her camera. 'R' on the other hand is the complete opposite. She is sentimentally attached to each and every picture she takes, even the blurry ones or the ones of the back of a head. So, she got the camera on Thursday evening (7th), and we finally got the batteries, memory card, and everything put together properly so she could start using it Friday evening (8th). Sunday evening (10th) I took her camera to download pictures. Over 300 pictures in just 2 days! 100 of them were pictures of the TV while they watched a 30 min. show!

Part of me was annoyed by all the pictures and began planning the next "lesson" for 'R' on when to delete photos. But the other part of me just chuckled at the total randomness of the things she photographed. You could almost put them all together to make a movie of what we had done those 2 days. I couldn't help but laugh at her and her photos. The perspective of a 6 year old is quite interesting!



me, me cooking, & the fish "James"
(She also took a 2 minute video clip of me cutting chicken. I know you're disappointed but I didn't put that one on here!)

the neighbor's dog and our rose bush

She only got one good pic of 'B'. After that 'B' was always running away!
Then 'R' got into self portraits.
'N' woke up from nap and became the popular subject!
(And there are about 50 more of 'N' all with her walking away or trying to get away!)
The TV show and the TV show up WAY too close!
Aunt Hayley up too early in the morning and Aunt Hayley's muffins! (This is exciting stuff!)
And many more of the sisters!




And even a picture of a picture!

7 comments:

Alyssa said...

Very fun! And a good reminder not to buy my kids a camera any time soon. :-)

Lenny D said...

I love this post. The self-portraits are probably my favorite. I'm sure the one of Hayley is not hers. Our girls are so funny and wonderful. Thank you for sharing this with me.

love you, Len

Mandy said...

Oh, they are having a good time. These pictures are so funny. And I would love to see the chicken cutting video!

graceunderautism said...

those are adorable!!!
I love the self portraits...it makes me see into the future for her myspace/facebook page.

Alison said...

i have done a horrible job of keeping up with posts, especially since we left CR! i just read all of your sweet birthday poems/comments to the girls, saw your d-day post (which made me a bit teary-eyed), and got to enjoy all of the pictures of THE birthday party. you guys look great, and we will be praying for you as you do your best to stay strong while Len is gone. miss you guys so much as we are in abilene right now! take care!

Mia said...

'R's self-portraits give us a glimpse into the teenager/woman she will become. What a treasure! Looking forward to having a picture-taking buddy! Love you all

Grammy said...

Don't discourage this "artistic" talent that she is showing! She may become a famous photographer one day and then you can do a display titled "Remember when..." And Aunt Hayley looks like she needed to get some "beauty rest!"