• artsy fartsy,  Bug,  movies,  Super Dad

    Cameras Should Be Black

    Everybody knows that Toby is a fancy schmancy photographer, right? So it’s fitting that I should buy* Baby Bug a toy camera. But when I brought this little blue gigham number home and showed it to Toby, he said that Baby Bug wouldn’t like it because it wasn’t black like Daddy’s.

    So I did what I do with anything I don’t like the color of. I pulled out the Sharpie and started coloring.

    But the cool part of this story is that while I was coloring (with the foul smelling marker and playing many many trick-the-baby games to keep her from my foul smelling marker), Toby made this really cool movie of us. (3.5 megs, quicktime. It’s a whopper but really good quality. You Tube version here.)

    He’s such a super dad.

    *This purchase was made way before the new “screwing-down-the-screws budget” we have recently adopted. No more silly stuffed toys will be bought for a very long time.

  • artsy fartsy,  Bug

    budding artist

    We always joke that Baby Bug is either going to be an artist like us or really really really hate art and become an accountant. Which would actually be a good thing because neither Toby nor I have a good head for numbers. We could use an accountant in the family. But it looks like we might have hold out for kid number two. Baby Bug seems to really like coloring.