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I regularly see things in my world that I wish I could just snap a picture of the scene I just saw (my cell phone is too old, doesn't have a camera) or record a video of what the boys just did without searching for our Flip (my cell phone is too old, doesn't record video).

This morning I knew the scene I saw was too fleeting to be able to run downstairs to grab the Flip and come back (never mind that as soon as Eli sees the Flip, he stops what he's doing and asks to "see"). I had hidden our plastic Easter egg shells upstairs for Eli to hunt for, mainly to keep him busy and buy me some time folding laundry. We had already done a couple rounds of this but he was still excited. When I set him loose, he ran and squealed with delight whenever he found an egg. At the same moment, what comes on the radio station that I was listening to but the William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger theme for you non-classical geeks out there). It was like a scene out of a comedy movie -- energetic music, watch a kid run across an open doorway periodically, hearing those squeals of delight.

Driving around Lexington, I find myself snapping images in my head all the time. The brown farmhouse on Waltham Street -- every season and in different sunlight it's all equally charming. The white farmhouse on I-95 with the big red door. The muted rainbow of houses on Woburn Street going around the bend. A canopy of green trees on Spring Street in the summer.

Now I see why Calvina lugs her camera everywhere and shoots often what seems just like the everyday things. I mean, I started this blog to memorialize. Tom bought me a digital audio recorder a couple years ago so I can secretly record the kids' interactions/songs in the car. Maybe I could start at least by upgrading my phone!