photo shoot with a 2-year-old

Eleanor is the youngest member of the intentional community where I live. A week after beginning to speak English, she decided that the next thing to learn was the digital camera. I helped her with the first point-and-shoot, and then she was off!

Point and shoot #1.

Mommy Zhewei.

Eleanor-eye-level view of the Common House dining room.

Eleanor-eye-level view of the Common House dining table.

Eleanor-eye-level view of a Common House purple fuzzy slipper.

me.

It's much harder to capture yourself.

Perfect!

After the shoot, she treated me to an embellished story about my roommate Jaclyn's car accident, involving poop and pee. I'm ashamed (ish) to admit that I put the idea of poop and pee into her little head, foolishly assuming that she would laugh about it and then move on to another topic. Mom and Dad, you can be duly proud of her and pissed (and poo-ed) at me.