M's (soon to be) new digicam

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For those of you that were around for the After Thanksgiving Adventures a couple of years ago, during which we purchased M's first digital camera, here's a quick update.

M has been playing with my camera for months now, and with Rae's work camera recently (mine's broke, more on that some other time).  She's really taken to Rae's because the camera is small and the LCD is large and she knows how to turn it on, take a picture, put it in view mode and back into picture mode all by herself.  Over the spring and summer she'd still get hers out, play with it now and then, but it just wasn't the same as mine or mom's.  So a couple weeks ago we're at Target and I take us over to the camera section to see what I can see, and M immediately gravitates to this red Nikon camera.  She wants to try it, so I give it to her and without so much as a, "Here's how it works" she's got it turned on and having Rae pose for a picture, then turning it to view mode to show us. Buh-wa? What did she just do?  That's right, without telling her a thing, she had it all figured out, what buttons to push, what dials to turn.  She loved it and wanted to take one home, but we told her to put it on her list for Santa.

Fast forward a week and two places have the red Nikon on sale.  Alas, it's a crazy busy week for us, and we don't get out to shopping until the end of the week - everyone is sold out.  BUT places have the blue version of the same camera on sale, so we jump on it, Rae gets a GREAT deal on the 2-year accidental damage warranty (hey, it's a $100 camera for a 4.5 year old) and now we've at least got a camera if we're not able to find a deal on the red one.  In the ensuing week I get an e-mail from the place I got my camera that they have the red one on sale ... and sold out by the time I log on (but they have the blue one!).  Two other online places offer the red one (one's already sold out), but neither are on sale and the warranty is expensive(!).  So now I'm thinking Let's get her to want the blue one *grin*.

Fast forward to last night, we're on our way home from work/school.  I tell her we're going to see Santa tomorrow night (tonight) and what does she want to ask him for?  She immediately rattles off her ideas, along with "a red camera."  I ask her, "What if it's not red?" to which she replies, "That's ok, but we'll ask for a red one"  Me, "What if it's a blue one?" M, "OOOH! Yeah! Or rainbow!  I want to ask for a rainbow one, but if not rainbow, if Santa can't make a rainbow one, then definitely blue, or red would be good too."  So, we'll see what she says to him tonight, but it sounds like we've forestalled any drama like last years.  Now, if I could just figure out how to make it rainbow, then I'd be one cool poppa Santa!  Stay tuned!