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If You Give a Kid a Camera…

you should always remember to buy the M&Ms you promised you would.  because eating the first bag by yourself made him sad, and now the caterpillar cookies you promised you could make together won’t have any M&M legs. he will take a picture of the picture he made to make you feel bad. now every time you look at your desk and computer, you will feel guilty for eating the M&Ms intended for his cookies. 

you should be prepared to be forced to watch all those tv shows that you DESPISE all over again, only this time flip-book style on the camera. you will have to pretend to be amused because he took the pictures all himself, and photography is ART. 

you will have to relive his wonderful birthday memories with the WallE cake decorations that you are constantly stepping on. you now know that you can’t throw them away while he is at school some day, because not only does he care about them enough to take pictures, but now we have photo documentation that he has them. 

you will be forced to find a place for all the pictures of his lego creations. he will also photo document every hotwheel car he has and take a picture of every single page of the cookie book he loves so much. you know, the one with the caterpillar cookies that you destroyed by prematurely eating their legs. 

you will also get some really cute self portraits that you never would have gotten by yourself. you will cherish these forever, and admire how pretty his eyes are until your dying day. 

you will also wonder when the “wierd face” stage will end. 

you will finally have a picture of yourself that you didn’t take by twisting your arms into unnatural angles to point the camera you are holding at arms length. you will be very happy about this because you know that the first picture, before all the legos and hotwheels and tv shows and drawings, is of his top two favorite people in the world. you and his baby sister. 

Also going in the honorable mention pile is the picture he took of me cycling and the many pictures of his Mimi in her bathrobe. she was NOT too happy about those. i would also like to mention the many dog butts we now have on file, the cabinet doors and the rocks.