I'm playing with a new camera.

I started out my day with a newborn session, and I can't wait to get to the pictures of Laura...  she's absolutely precious!  But her daddy, Len, is selling his Canon 5D...  and that's my dream camera.  (Well, the 5D Mk II is my absolute dream camera, but the 5D is just fine by me.  I'm really after a full frame camera instead of the crop sensor I'm using now.)  I started playing with it a little while Val was nursing Laura to calm her down at one point but only got off about three shots before Laura was fast asleep and ready to be a star, so I didn't get to play much.  When I was getting ready to leave Len shocked me by asking if I wanted to take it home to play with!  (Of course he's also good friends with my sister-in-law and he reminded me he can track me down if he needs to, lol!)

I already had plans to go to my sister's house after I left Laura's newborn session, so I took the camera with me and played with it some more.  My aunt is in town and she brought her grandsons with her - Patrick and Wyatt.  I hadn't seen either of them in ages!  Kelly babysat them today while mom and Aunt Vonda went sewing machine shopping.  (Sewing machines to them are like cameras to me: as necessary as breathing.)  So I decided to take some snapshots of the boys playing around to test out the camera.  I used my 50mm fantastic plastic lens the whole time and was AMAZED by the difference in a full frame camera.  

This is Patrick.  He's 8 years old and looks just like I remember his dad (my cousin) looking when he was about the same age.


Wyatt with one of the boys' stuffed dogs.  Kelly said everyone was perfectly behaved last night until time to go to sleep... and then they began arguing over who got to sleep with what stuffed animal!  I tell ya, after watching the boys all jump on one another today I'm amazed they were arguing over stuffed animals. ;)


I'm glad I had such willing test subjects for the camera, though.  Almost a little too willing to do stuff like this...  that was all his idea!


Tyler gave me a couple of "cheese" smiles.  Oh how I love them.  And how I love him.




All playing in the floor with a comforter...


Kelly made cupcakes but hadn't gotten around to making any icing yet when the boys wanted them... a lack of icing didn't slow them down any!

This drooling smile can cheer me up any day!




Did you notice someone was missing from the playtime pictures?  Landon laid down for a nap right before I got there and only woke up about five minutes before it was time for him to go to his cousin Anna's birthday party.

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