It was a HUGE week for Maddie!

1. She crawled successfully, forward even! She’s motoring around now with some effort, but she is indeed mobile.
2. She was laying with me on the bed and stood up on her own. We have been standing her up, but this was the first time she stood up on her own. This afternoon when we went in to check on her, she was standing in her crib. Time to lower the crib.
3. We turned her seat around in the Land Cruiser. She has been tall enough and heavy enough for a couple months, but we wanted to wait until close to her birthday.

On Friday morning I missed capturing my daughter, Madeline, enjoying the intro song to the Backyardigans and that started the quest for a new camera. We have a Canon S300 Digitial Elph which has been a great camera, but it’s getting a bit dated, being CF and all. I went looking to see what was the latest and greatest. I found that the Canon SD line looked pretty much like the best deal these days (much as it was when we got our S300) I was able to narrow it down to the PowerShot SD600 and PowerShot SD630 which seem identical except for the LCD on the back. The SD600 has a 2.5″ LCD and a viewfinder while the SD630 has a 3″ LCD and no viewfinder. One feature we really want to use is the 640×480x30fps video, which is AVI, but MJPEG…but conversion to AVI/MPEG4 isn’t all that difficult.

We took a trip to Best Buy to browse the cameras and played with both a SD450 and a SD630. We (my wife) decided that the viewfinder was of almost no use to use anyways so that made it a go.

I found Beach Camera had the best price and free shipping, so I orded it. Much to my suprise, it shipped about 4 hours later. I also hit Newegg for a 2GB SD and a spare battery.

Our daughter, Madeline (Maddie), rolled over yesterday. Unfortunately, I was out of town and my wife was out of the room…so we both missed it! Maddie started crying, so Melissa went in to check on her and discovered her latest triumph. Now if she can just learn to roll back, we’ll be set.

Our daughter was born yesterday afternoon @ 1751 CDT. Mom and daughter are resting nicely and I’m just amazed and almost speachless. It’s just an amazing thing.