Natalie has been camera-aware from a really young age. It can make it pretty difficult at times to capture candid shots as she stops what shes doing as soon as the camera comes out. Lately she has really started to enjoy looking at the photos on the camera after you take them. Last weekend I was taking some pictures of her and she immediate ran over and wanted to see them.

I’m not terribly surprised Natalie is fascinated with the camera as she seems to love all gadgets (just like her Dad!). Some of her favourites right now are the phones, remote controls, computer mice and keyboards, and our portable alarm clock. If it has buttons she’ll push them. If it is off, she’ll turn it on. It’s amazing the damage she can do with a few seconds near the keyboard and mouse. Last time she deleted some files and changed the name of the My Documents folder to 22222222222222222222222222222222222222. :) Thank goodness for undo!

She’s picking up new words at an amazing rate these days. Some of her latest are Please, Teeth, Banana, Dog (often followed by Woof), and Cheese (when you take a picture). I’m glad we snuck Please in there, it’s a nice contrast to all the Me’s we hear when she wants something.

Prolonged Potty Picking. We’ve decided to start potty training now. On the weekend we went to Toys R Us to buy a potty. We thought it was going to be fairly straight forward, but we ended up standing in front of the Potty Section for a good 30-40 minutes. Natalie got the opportunity to try sitting on each one and play with whatever toys they had. In the end we went for the Baby Bjourn because it didn’t have any distracting toys, music or lights, and also because it seems like it will be very easy to clean.