there's the bird!

noah and aaron made this awesome birthday card for me, with animal cutouts from a national geographic kids' magazine. by happenstance the big elephant's ear ended up hiding a little bird. noah loved the peek-a-boo aspect, happily exclaiming "there's the bird!" every time he lifted up the flap.

there's the bird!but here's my real birthday present: a new nikon digital camera with ten megapixels! aaron organized his whole family to go in on it together, but he did the choosing. he was so proud of himself for navigating the tricky world of electronic lingo. (he said he had a very helpful guy at bestbuy.) we've loved our old camera (thank you, alan!) since we got it for our wedding four and a half years ago. it had the cool feature of being water-resistant and extremely durable. but it also only had 3 megapixels and very slow autofocus, which meant often blurry and sort of unclear pictures. the new one is super fast and very clear, and has a big screen on the back, which is really cool. (especially for two-year-olds who like to see the pictures of themselves immediately after they're taken.) i'm very excited to put the new camera to work.

here's my first product:

it also helps to have a super cute little girl!