Wednesday, June 4, 2008

New Camera

We got a new camera last weekend. It's a Sony this time. Not that the Canon wasn't good. It was . . . until I dropped it down the stairs. And even after that it was good for another year. But that's when the trouble started. The sony is cool and it's a sub-compact so it's really thin and light.

We'll start with some action shots of Jessi. She has finally caught on to catching a frisbee in mid-air. I couldn't catch that on camera this day though. There are now 4 frisbees in our back yard and 4 balls. Dad, yesterday I found the exact frisbee that you let Jessi play tug of war with and take a bite out of at Dick's sporting goods and bought her a new one. Of course, after I bought her another one that was $13 that she'll fetch but won't catch.








The camera has this smile feature that can detect a smile and automatically take up to 6 pictures. You just set it on the happy face, push the shutter button and point it at the person or group of people. It puts a square around their face or the face you want out of the group and waits for their smile to reach a certain point on the detection scale and clicks by itself! You can set it on different levels of sensitivity. It's great for Maddox because I can just hold the camera at her and then concentrate on trying to get her to smile and the camera does the rest. We have the sensitivity set on very high since she doesn't have teeth and it's harder to detect a baby's smile if they're not giving you a big one. We had lots of fun playing with this feature. Tons of pics of me, Jeremy, and Maddox. We even tried Jessi but apparently it doesn't detect a dog. These are just a few that we took on that setting. I could literally post at least 50! And of course my favorite! The camera detected THIS as a smile! I feel like you might catch a lot more opportunities that normally you might miss.
Also notice in the previous picture her left hand. She's started reaching out and holding things! Unfortunately, the only thing she's REALLY good at grabbing is the pacifier out of her mouth, which, in turn, makes her mad so I stick it back in. She pulls it back out and gets mad again. She was very tired at the mall yesterday and wouldn't nap and kept pulling her pacifier out so I tried covering her hands with a burp cloth to keep them away. That didn't work. She just pulled the cloth off, grabbed the pacy and then kept crying. After about 40 minutes of trying to shop like this I finally nursed her to sleep and kept shopping.
She spent about 20 minutes last night practicing with her hand on a plastic electronic book my cousin Beth gave her. The only page she likes is the one with Twinkle Twinkle little Star and it has a star that you can move up and down on it. It's also the easiest page for her right now. Again, with only her left hand. She uses that one about 95% of the time. I know it's a little early to tell but does this mean we have a left handed child?

















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