The Ken Burns Effect

I didn't grow up with a video camera. My parents were picture people, not video people. There are no videos of me dancing in our living room in cute costumes, hunting outside for Easter eggs or snow tubing down the big hill near our house in the winter. But I do have a photograph with every single Christmas present I received in 1987. So when I found out a few years ago that Bret had all these great videos of himself as a child, I decided we definitely needed to get a video camera when we had kids. Of course, Bret might object to the fact that "great videos" are defined by footage of himself parading around in a sailor suit at his first birthday (apparently, it was in back then). Or his television debut in the hit show Romper Room where he couldn't listen to directions and threw a ball over the wall at some of the producers. But embarrassing as they may be, the memories remain priceless.

For my birthday this year, Bret's parents gave me a sweet video camera so we could record our own embarrassing memories with our daughter. We haven't gotten to use it much yet but here's one from a few months ago of us assembling her crib. As you can see, I am quite the professional.