Anyone recording "family ambience"?

["Steve Duncan" swduncan]

Hi - I just discovered this group, and I've been having a blast reading thr=
ough the archives.
I've always been fascinated with sound gear, and fiddled with making record=
ings from time to
time although I'd never really invested in decent equipment.

After I discovered my old voice recorder wouldn't talk to my Mac, I ordered=
 an Olympus LS-
10, which should be arriving today. I decided on the LS-10 because I'd reco=
rded what I guess
I'll call "family ambience" a few times with my old recorder, and thought i=
t would be even
more fun now that our kids are starting to talk more. I'd once tried to mak=
e a custom
ringtone for my wife of our oldest daughter's first giggles, but between no=
ise and low signal
levels it just didn't work.

I suppose this is stretching the definition of nature recording, but is any=
one else doing this
kind of stuff?

Steve in Milwaukee