Philip and I used some of our amazon gift cards from swagbucks combined with some birthday money to finally invest in a video camera to document our growing children with a little more ease. Now, we haven't been completely video-less thanks to our digital camera which can serve both functions, but it is nice to have a pocket-sized version devoted solely to capturing those great moments that just can't be satisfied sitting still.
And we didn't buy just any camera. We got a waterproof camera, which serves the purposes of being both inexpensive, yet providing quality video, with the added fun factor of being, of course, impervious to water (and thereby closer to being indestructible, which, with a toddler with a penchant for exploring toilets and an accident-prone mommy, who has also been known to drop electronics in toilets, is always a huge plus). Therefore, we took the most obvious course of action for anyone who has been in possession of a waterproof camera for a little over a week - we took it for a test drive in the backyard.
And, bonus, Micaiah got to have her first experience of running through the sprinklers. And she loved it. Well, mostly. She still doesn't quite understand the running through the water thing when she's on her own, but she's more than happy to let mommy and daddy hold her and do the running for her (smart girl, avoid exercise at all costs, that's my motto). Good times were had by all. And we have it all on tape (or, you know, SD card, because who uses tapes these days?).
On a note only related in the category of things we recently filmed on our camera - Philip got video this evening of story-time, with Emmett paying close attention to every picture in Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. We may have another book lover on our hands. And I couldn't be happier about that :)
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