I know this sounds bad but at this point I’m left to hoping my three youngest children don’t really amount to much. Hey, I’m a good Dad. I hope they have good, fulfilling, happy, and holy lives but just not in any great historical way.
The reason I’m left to hoping this is that if any of my three youngest do anything worthy of a historical documentary I’m warning you now that there may be zero photographic evidence that they existed other than a class picture or two or perhaps they may appear in the background of another family’s photos.
You see, the batteries in our video camera were in there so long they melted into some kind of brown ooze. And pictures? Well, we lost the wire that connects the digital camera to the computer so they’re kind of stuck in there. And besides, most of the pictures in that thing were probably taken by the babies who regularly used the camera as a pretend phone so I can’t really vouch for the quality of those pictures. We’ve got about 15 disposable cameras rotting in a drawer in the living room but they’ve been there a while. I mean a long while. So long that I think one of them is of my Little League game.
My first child was photographed. A lot. So if she wants to do something publicly great with her life that would be great. But since her…I’ve been not so great about photographs.
Hey, the truth is that they all pretty much look alike so maybe I could just tell the documentary guys that the picture I’m giving them is the kid they’re looking for. Maybe they’ll never know.
Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn’t have written this post.
October 12, 2011 at 6:27 am
While everyone else was making scrapbooks of their first baby, I never did. I knew after the first I would never do it again and I didn't think it would be fair to numbers 2, 3 and 4. Sitting down to that pristine scrapbook I imagined all my future children screaming at me, "Mom why does Kathy have a scrapbook and we don't?!" I shut the empty scrapbook right then and there and never looked back.
Meanwhile my husband built a family website where there are copious pictures of 1 and 2, less of 3 and nearly non of 4. So you are far from alone!
October 12, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Hey, I've got extra camera cords just layin' around if you need one. And don't worry about how long it takes to get the film developed 'cuz my mother-in-law took 20 years to get my husband's high school graduation pictures done. We had a blast with those pictures after all those years! Our youngest (of 8) who just turned 8 asked me last year why he didn't have a photo album. I hadn't noticed that he didn't up til then. All of his pictures were on the computer. He just sits at the computer and scrolls thru the pictures himself.
Sharon
(I did print off about 50 of them for his album after he asked.)
October 12, 2011 at 1:42 pm
We videotopaed my oldest daughter's (now two and a half) baptism. That is the only thing we have ever videoed. Pictures? We take about five or six in spurts. So we started off not taking a lot of pictures, so I can only imagine how any future kids will fare.
October 12, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Actually, it may be a BENEFIT if they want to run for office or play CEO someday.
***There will be no skeletons in the closet.***
My father-in-law recently showed us a picture of the 5 y/o answering nature's call in the lake. So much for a Presidential bid.
October 16, 2011 at 4:11 pm
I only had two (unfortunately found the righteous path too late in life) but our second has embarrassingly few videos and pix and the first has every milestone from first bath to catching the first school bus recorded.