scrawls.

scrawls

still cheaper than therapy*

15.11.07

it's what i was afraid of. Kinda

so we have a camera, and many rechargeable batteries. And we have a video-dvd-corder, too, also with rechargeable batteries, and even with a rechargeable light. And you're perfect and beautiful and doing all these things, like grinning at me when you wake up and realize you're about to get picked up! whee! you love being picked up! so you grin and it is gorgeous, all rainbows and sunshine and birdsong. (Also, you like eric clapton. Good baby.) But we are so busy with the you that we aren't taking very many pictures. And ... the video-dvd-corder is still ... kinda ... in its box. We did get it out and play around with it a bit. But you're you! you keep needing US to do STUFF, and if you only need one of us then the other one is making dinner or doing laundry or cleaning the floor where mommy left a new bottle of dark, thick, sticky soy sauce on the counter and it fell over (thanks, dog no. 1) and broke all over the place, just for instance. And i'm not sure when we're supposed to have time to take care of you, and take care of us, and also use the video-dvd-corder. And that's without factoring in Skype or zombie flash mobs or christkindlmarkts or anything. And i can blog when you're sleeping, because is video of a sleeping baby really that exciting? And i can take pictures of you when you're sleeping. (and i do.) Plus both M and me, our parents had big heavy camcorders, and i think my grandfather had some thing that would actually take reels of film? And there were always people around that instead of doing STUFF were paying attention to the machinery and saying things like what? oh, i missed it, could you do that again? and that sort of ... seems silly. Because the way i take pictures, snapshots, it sort of prevents one from interacting with the subject - one is fiddling with the settings and trying to get the best angle instead of engaging at all. but so the video-dvd-corder is getting kind of dusty.

Labels: baby, house, media

scrawled @ 14:06