Say cheese

Abbey has been interested in taking pictures for a long time. She will pretend different objects are cameras and hound you until you smile and say cheese. A while back Chad finally let her take some pictures with our digital camera. One day after that I let her use it for about 5 minutes and then discovered she had taken 100 pictures! Seriously! I laughed until I cried looking back through them, she had photographed anything and everything she could see. Here are a few of my favorites she has taken lately.

Here she posed her buddies Santa Penguin and Eagle (beagle) dog in their "rocket ships" (shoes) so they could blast off after the photo session.


She managed to put the camera in multi-burst mode, which is why there are 16 frames, but I thought it was so funny that she took her self-portrait in the bathroom mirror.

Any guesses as to what this is? It's a close-up of a lamp in our temporary apartment in Japan. Interesting perspective and lighting, no?

This is what happens when little girls take the camera without asking. (No, I did not leave the house wearing this lovely ensemble.)

By far Abbey's favorites subjects are her toys and her baby sister. While the baby dolls never seem to mind, sometimes Elliott is not quite so willing to have her picture taken.

Good thing she changes her mind quickly.

Nana and Les came to see us over the weekend, providing Abbey with the perfect opportunity to take her first family portrait!

This girl definitely keeps us laughing... and I already know what she's getting for Christmas!