Misty Water-Color Memories
February 19 2010 During my pregnancy with Buzz, and then Abby, too, I had dreams about all the photo opportunities ahead. The reality is, I’ve been more concerned with surviving. When Jedi was an only child, I remember photographing his every inconsequential move. Back when everything, even the simple act of eating a cookie, was amazing and cute. While it’s still mostly amazing and cute, it’s also now a lot of work and shouldn’t I get him down off the table first?
Thus, a lot of memories haven’t been recorded.
This is especially displeasing to my mother, who is constantly urging me to “get a picture of that!”. “You should keep that camera around your neck”, she tells me. Usually when the kids are in the midst of less than stellar behavior while I’m on the phone with her, which seems to happen often.
For example, my mom has said I should have gotten pictures of:
Abby hitting the cat
Abby trying to ride the cat like a horse
Abby sitting on her brother’s face
Abby kicking her brother in the face
The boys dragging each other around by their shirts
She says she wants a representation of them “just being kids”. Apparently, that means beating the crap out of one another, and sometimes the cat for good measure. However, I don’t believe the degree of desperation in their howls would shine through enough on film. I’m thinking I should just make a video instead.
7 Responses
on February 19 2010
I’m with you — sometimes I think taking a video would be easier. Or at least a better representation of who my son is. Besides…he moves too fast lately for my camera, and with the delay, I’m lucky to get the back of his head as he races out of the frame, giggling like mad.
When I was pregnant w/ my son, I daydreamed about the wonderful scrapbooks I was going to fill, with creative layouts and tons of photos. He’s two now, and the scrapbook is still in it’s shrink-wrap and the photos are still on my computer. Oh well…I’ll get to it someday, right?
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on February 19th, 2010
@Crystal @ Semi-Crunchy Mama, Your camera skills sound about as good as mine. I don’t like using flash, so if I actually do get a picture of their face, 9 times out of 10 it’s blurry.
on February 19 2010
I am totally the same as you. My first child was documented non-stop. My second child doesn’t even have a framed picture up and she’s 16 months already! I keep planning to print out some pictures to put in a frame. Poor little thing.
I do actually have a couple of pictures of them fighting. They make for funny pictures – but then I feel guilty for taking pictures of them beating each other up instead of breaking up the fight.
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on February 19th, 2010
@Marilyn @ A Lot of Loves, The only hold-in-your-hand pictures I have of my almost 19 month old daughter are of the day she was first born. Obviously, she’s changed a bit since then. I really need to work on that.
on February 19 2010
Yes, capture those moments! If nothing else, for the embarrassing wedding or graduation slide show down the road … =>
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on February 19 2010
A friend of mine sets up the videocamera in a corner of her living room (to be fair, she’s got it, like, tethered into the ceiling corner) once a month or so and just lets it run from when she wakes up in the morning until she goes to bed in the evening.
At first, I thought she was nuts. But now I look at the films she has and I think it’s alot better than trying to break out the camera constantly or make the video at the perfect moment. She has life, completely captured.
.-= Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com´s latest blog post: I can feel those little suckers… =-.
on February 19th, 2010
@Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com, Part of me is saying that’s a great idea. The other part is going, whoa, do I really want to record, and then later watch, a whole day of this.