{"id":2085,"date":"2007-10-26T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/10\/26\/dare-i-say-it-also-camera-advice-sought\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:00:35","slug":"dare-i-say-it-also-camera-advice-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/10\/26\/dare-i-say-it-also-camera-advice-sought\/","title":{"rendered":"Dare I Say It? Also, Camera Advice Sought!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bean is seven weeks old<\/em> today. Wow. It feels as though it’s been a year. <\/p>\n

Today is the end of my first work-week as Mom-In-Charge, and it’s gone much better than I expected. Part of this is because a friend has come over every day to hang out with Pixie and give me a chance to run errands. The other part is that I think the change in formula is working. I hope the Zantac is too, but that takes longer, and we just started it Wednesday night. But all week, Bean has had days of eating, sleeping, a little play time, and just a little fussing. No hours-long arias of woe. (Well, Monday and Tuesday evening she cried for an hour, but that’s far different from three or more!)<\/p>\n

I’ve taken to tracking her waking and sleeping times, with notes on what she was doing during the wake time — feeding, playing, crying, other (i.e., outing, bath). Over the past nine days she averages about 14.5 hours of sleep daily, with her worst day being 10.5 hours –the day of most misery as we dealt with the consequences of Nestle Good Start — and her longest sleep being 18 — her first day on Alimentum. I’ve really been attentive to her cues, but even when she’s not been much stimulated and she’s obviously sleepy, she fights it sometimes. She drowses, but doesn’t completely let go. <\/p>\n

Oh, but she’s so much more social! We play a game where I stick out my tongue, wiggle it, and make funny noises, and she turns her head to the side while looking at me and smiles hugely. It’s very coy and adorable. She then mimics me by sticking out her tongue. I praise this, which makes her grin hugely. She’s also become more expressive, vocalizing different coos and aahs. I echo them, and she kicks her legs in delight. When she’s crying, there are times it really sounds as though she’s trying to say<\/em> something — the “yah yah yah” or “owowow” mean something. I’m just not always sure what<\/em>. She’s also discovered she can put her fingers in her mouth and that they’re fun and handy (pun! ha!) to chew on.<\/p>\n

And I need advice. My digital camera just isn’t fast enough to capture an active baby. There’s a pause between the time I press the button and the shutter click. Husband and I are thinking of investing in a new camera. What would you recommend as a good investment? My current camera is a Nikon Coolpix E2100 (2 megapixel, 3X optical zoom, 4X digital zoom). We originally bought it for about $200. I’m not sure how high we’re willing to go; let’s say nothing over $600. So tell me what you use! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bean is seven weeks old today. Wow. It feels as though it’s been a year. Today is the end of my first work-week as Mom-In-Charge, and it’s gone much better than I expected. Part of this is because a friend has come over every day to hang out with Pixie and give me a chance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13800,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/13800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}