New camera :)

This is how pictures have been turning out with our old camera. Ellie's not moving that fast, but the camera's flash stopped working so most pictures come out blurry.
SO, we decided to use some of our tax return money to invest in a new camera. It's funny that we got something 3x smaller with many more megapixels and zoom for $50 less than what we paid for our old camera five years ago! I'm very excited to be back in business as Ellie's designated photog :)

Here she is at the end of a long "scoot" the other day. She's pretty good at going backwards, but wasn't too happy when she got stuck under the couch.

Here's Ellie and me hamming it up to test out different settings on our new Canon Powershot 1300. (Our old one was a Powershot 530, so we've really moved up in the world.)





















And ( below) look what I picked up at Bed, Bath & Beyond yesterday! I'd like to say she was on sale, but I would even pay full price for this hot little item :)
Ellie loves the crinkling of plastic bags. We obviously do not let her play with them unless we're sitting right there supervising. It was like Christmas, though, when I put her IN her own bag yesterday! Notice how all the other toys are cast off to the side. It's so funny how Ellie is so much more interested in bags, papers, tags and remotes than she is in her mountains of toys. More video on this to come...