The Camera

As I mentioned earlier, Andrew loves the digital camera. I don't think he would like a traditional camera at all honestly. What Andrew likes is that a light goes off, and then he can run up beside me and see himself on the little screen.

He's got a great memory and eye for details. For instance, if he sees a TV in the background, he'll stare at it and get kinda confused that what is in the picture isn't what the TV is showing now (remember this is on the little screen that comes with a digital camera), or he'll look to see if his surroundings still look like they did in the picture. It's adorable actually. :)

Now this does create one little problem in terms of taking pictures. Two actually. :) The first is that the moment you take a picture of Andrew, it interrupts whatever he was doing, because he has to stop and come look at what you just took.

The second is that if he sees the camera, he wants to stop what he's doing anyway, run up to 6 inches from the camera, and wait for you to make the light flash so he can see himself. Therefore taking a picture like the one in the previous blog involved a lot of prodding to convince Andrew that he really did want to sit down, he really did want his hand on the mouse, and he really could look at me afterwards without moving so I could take a shot. :)

Also, he hates professional pictures, because they don't show him anything after the flash . . .hehe.