Practice Makes Perfect

This afternoon Jason and I decided to pull out the travel system and give it a try. I'd been wanting to try strapping the car seat into the car for a couple of weeks but we'd never gotten around to it. Since we have to have the car seat in the car in order to take the baby home from the hospital, I figured it was best to learn how to install it now.

Our travel system came with a stroller, a car seat base, and the "infant restraint" as they refer to the carrier. It took us about half an hour to put the stroller together and figure out what everything did. We'll probably forget the first time we use it for real, but hey - we're new at this! Then we took the car seat and its base to the car and went through the instructions for making sure the seat was secure in the vehicle. We practiced both with and without the base, and it seems pretty simple, actually.

That wasn't the only thing we practiced this afternoon. The WWU library got a new digital camera this week. It's a super nice Canon something-or-other (I'm NOT a professional photographer, so I have no idea how to describe a camera). Here's what it looks like:

Jason brought it home to figure out how it works and give it a try, and I had a LOT of fun today running around trying to find things to photograph. When I discovered the macro setting, that was all I wanted to do. So here are a couple of my first attempts with a nice camera with macro setting capabilities. (FYI, "macro" means you can take shots of things super close up.) They aren't the best, but if I could practice more...like with my OWN nice Canon camera, for instance...I'd probably improve.