look! there's a baby looking back at me!

playing with the camera from Elizabeth Smillie on Vimeo.

Our little Emma Grace absolutely loves cameras. Still cameras, video cameras - they all fascinate her.
Yesterday afternoon Emma really wanted to play with the camera all by herself. Can you tell that she was a tad bit, um, frustrated (we need to start working on how she communicates that ...) that I wouldn't let her ?

She got excited about halfway through because I flipped the viewing screen over so that she could see herself. She had so much fun with that! The only difficulty with her seeing the viewing screen is that I can't see what's appearing on the movie, so the next one is a bit shaky:

Also, did you see the mark on her upper lip? She got her first fat lip on Saturday. It bled and she cried and her mommy felt so bad. But a little holding by mommy and thumb sucking by Emma seemed to make it all better.