Why is it I never have a camera around when my kids do extremely cute stuff?

[Queasy]

Apparently, I need to have a camera on me 100% of the time and trained on my kids to catch all the stuff that they do.

Examples:
- I was emptying the dishwasher so I could get dinner ready while my wife was working on something at the dinner table. Our one-year old walks over to the dishwasher, grabs out her Pooh and Tigger plate, places it on the table, climbs up a chair next to my wife, looks right at her and puts her hands together to say the blessing. :laugh: She was telling us she was ready for dinner.

- My wife takes my 4-year old son shopping with her and they come back with some Christmas decorations that she let him pick out. The one he was excited about is three clear presents with lights in them. He takes them out of the box and we hook them up so he can see what it looks like. We try to unplug them and he says, "No! If we turn them off then Christmas won't come!"

- Last night, we we're finishing dinner and my one-year old has rice all over her. I help her out of her chair and rice ends up on the kitchen floor. She looks down at the rice and then walks over to the corner where the broom is and starts sweeping the rice up. I managed to grab the camera and get some of her sweeping but missed out on the part where she decided that the floor was dirty and she needed to be the one to clean it up.

Maybe I just need to mount cameras around the house to catch all this stuff.

 

[nakedfrog]

For the same reason they quite doing something cute once you get the camera and have it turned on and pointed at them.
Unless you take the stealth shots, that's what you have to go for.

 

[Darkstar757]

Teh cuteness!

 

[dullard]

You do have an automatic instant always on camera. It is all right there where you need it the most - in your memory.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: dullard
You do have an automatic instant always on camera. It is all right there where you need it the most - in your memory.

You can't put your memory on YouTube though to share with your family.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Queasy
You can't put your memory on YouTube though to share with your family.

You just put your memory on ATOT and got people to call it cute. It worked here, it'll work with your family too.

 

[Homerboy]

start a blog for such things. Just a simple wordpress blog. While it won't help you with pictures it will help you remember such cute things, not only for you but for them. I have one running for my 2 kids (3 and 5) and the wife and I will login and add cute, or for that matter major, things that they do through the course of the day. I wish I would add more on a regular basis, but so is life.