A few years ago my mother gave me this awful little digital video camera for Christmas. I think it may have been a doorbuster deal at some store on Black Friday, but the thing sucked the life out of every AA battery I put into it and took really horrible videos to boot.
The first time I uploaded the videos to iPhoto, I was able to view and edit them without a problem. Shortly after that, however, some of the videos would play without audio and others would be black squares on the screen with just a soundtrack.
Since the videos were crap anyway, I wasn’t too concerned about the lost footage and they just hung out in my iPhoto library waiting for the day I decided to re-visit them, which happened to be this past weekend. I was having a little mom moment as I perused through the early years of my photo library and happened to click on one of the previous unwatchable videos. This time it worked and I was given the gift of several short snippets of Autumn as a baby.
The most precious of these videos is the one I’m posting here. It was taken a month before her first birthday. The lighting is dim and you can’t even make out the dog sitting next to her, but this one minute absolutely broke my heart because the child in it will be heading off to kindergarten in two weeks. And like every other mom I’m left wondering, “The hell? Where did those four years go?”
October, 2006 from noahsarc on Vimeo.
I had completely forgotten about the “ba ba ba” thing she does at the end there. Our daycare provider taught her that and we used to think it was the funniest thing. After seeing this, I can’t help but wonder how many other little things I’ve forgotten since then.
