For the children in our lives, we buy books or offer to take the child out for dinner, dessert, a movie or the zoo, etc. I had a new thought though because two of the new babies in our family live some distance from their Grandma & Grandpa (Dave’s parents). I bought picture books and then today I video taped Grandma & Grandpa reading those books. Dave will make a DVD that we can send with the books.
So this morning, Grandma read “Blueberries for Sal” and Grandpa read two of the books about “Corduroy”. I used Dave’s new HD video camera and taped each of them. It only took 20 minutes and it turned out so nicely. Grandma even told when to turn the page like the little bell that would ring on my books-on-record I had as a child.
Dave and I will keep a copy to hopefully use with our future children and little BB in Idaho and AB in NYC will get to see Grandma and Grandpa reading to them from their TV. And we’ll have, forever, a way of introducing future generations to these wonderful folks.
Once Dave and I do have children, I hope that maybe I could convince my own parents to do this or something similar.
I have a bunch of children’s books in the attic so I think I’ll go through those and video Grandma & Grandpa reading those as well. As long as Dave can create “chapters” on the DVD, we should be able to skip ahead to specific books. Should be pretty cool.
