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ngdawg · 10-30-2005, 06:27 PM

"Record every moment you can", the lady told me as she admired the four big eyes staring back at her."I don't remember half of what my twins did as babies because I was so busy with them."
So we bought a video camera, 8mm minicassettes and I recorded 10 minutes, 15 minutes ever day. Babies at 5 months don't do too much. They gurgle, they try to crawl, they eat and poop and they sleep. But I recorded and recorded as they grew.
First few steps. Playing 'magic' with my daughter, so delighted she 'fooled' me by hiding her toy in a pocket and asking, 'where'd it go?' My son lining up toy cars in perfect order on the coffee table. Their secret language. Their speech. "Yook, mommy! I do dah BOCKS!" as she she played and stacked blocks on the table.
One day I hear a familiar noise coming from the playroom, but not something normal from two sixteen-month olds. The distinct sound of the husband's Nintendo games. He played every night, our son in his lap. I instinctly grabbed the camera and tiptoed to the room to see my son, sitting on the floor, tv on, game on and he is pushing the buttons on the control. 'Uh-oh! I got Killt!!" he declared as he pushed the reset button and resumed.
Sixteen months old. Can't say too many intelligible words. And there he was, surrounded by toys, tv set on channel 3, game cartridge in the console and he is pushing buttons and hitting reset.....I knew we were in for an interesting ride....

10-30-2005, 06:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	"Record every moment you can", the lady told me as she admired the four big eyes staring back at her."I don't remember half of what my twins did as babies because I was so busy with them." So we bought a video camera, 8mm minicassettes and I recorded 10 minutes, 15 minutes ever day. Babies at 5 months don't do too much. They gurgle, they try to crawl, they eat and poop and they sleep. But I recorded and recorded as they grew. First few steps. Playing 'magic' with my daughter, so delighted she 'fooled' me by hiding her toy in a pocket and asking, 'where'd it go?' My son lining up toy cars in perfect order on the coffee table. Their secret language. Their speech. "Yook, mommy! I do dah BOCKS!" as she she played and stacked blocks on the table. One day I hear a familiar noise coming from the playroom, but not something normal from two sixteen-month olds. The distinct sound of the husband's Nintendo games. He played every night, our son in his lap. I instinctly grabbed the camera and tiptoed to the room to see my son, sitting on the floor, tv on, game on and he is pushing the buttons on the control. 'Uh-oh! I got Killt!!" he declared as he pushed the reset button and resumed. Sixteen months old. Can't say too many intelligible words. And there he was, surrounded by toys, tv set on channel 3, game cartridge in the console and he is pushing buttons and hitting reset.....I knew we were in for an interesting ride.... __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.