Chase's Photography

I posted on Facebook a couple of months ago that I was looking at the memory card on my camera and noticed a bunch of pictures of people's feet, the couch, and a certain toddler's nose. Well, now it seems that the lens on our 6-year-old camera won't operate correctly, so it must be time for me to get a new one! (I must say I'm really annoyed that I bought my 6 megapixel Sony Cybershot in 2006 for $225 after Ross's Best Buy discount and now I can apparently get a 14 megapixel camera for like $90.) Any-way... I decided that since my camera is now ruined that I must at least showcase some of the pictures that led to its demise: Chase's photography.

Chase's own iPod Touch?

Ross and I recently got iPhones, something I thought I would never need or want, considering I barely used all of the limited features of my previous Palm phone. Now that I have one, however, I don't know what I did without it. To put that another way, Chase doesn't know what he did without it. The iPhone is so intuitive that he can easily unlock it, find his games, the shows he likes on the Netflix app, and his playlist on iTunes. Keep in mind that I did absolutely nothing to teach him how to use these features. A 33-month-old figured it out on his own.

Ross and I were driving back from California last week after attending my brother's wedding, and to keep Chase entertained, we let him play with either of our phones for almost the entire trip. (We aren't cool enough yet to have a DVD player in the car.)

After being in the car for 7 hours or so, and after Chase and I had a mini-fight over who's phone it really was that he was playing with, Ross suggested, "You know, maybe we should get Chase an iPod Touch. He could have all of the same apps that are on our phones, but he wouldn't call anyone or get on the internet and we wouldn't have to share."

My eyes opened wide and I thought about it. Ross added, "The only thing is, I think he might easily lose it."

I thought about how one of our blu-ray movies had mysteriously gone missing recently. "Yeah," I answered. "But, we could just allow him to use it only when he's being supervised. We could put it away in one of the locked cabinets most of the time."

All of the sudden Ross and I looked at each other and busted up laughing. From the back seat, Chase noticed, looked up from my iPhone, and copied us by laughing too. "What ARE WE THINKING?!?!" I exclaimed. "There's no way we're spending $200 on an iPod for a two-and-a-half year old!"

Man, I think taking long enough road trips makes you delirious.