love my new camera!!!

My new camera has finally arrived!! Actually it arrived yesterday. I was at home on my lunch break and I saw the UPS truck drive up-- no lie, I ran out of my house and met the UPS lady at the end of the driveway! Then I ran back in the house. Anyone who knows me knows that I have this need to "touch" things right when I get them, so I unpacked everything from the boxes and monkied around. Here are some of the pics I took last night. I kept Mason up past his bedtime last night because I was so busy taking pictures of him! Then when he went to sleep, I picked on poor Jefferson, and after Jefferson ran away from me for the 8th time, I figured it was time for me to go to bed!

I just love it so far. I have no clue what exactly I am doing - last night I was just moving the dial around and seeing how the pictures looked different. I have vowed to myself I am going to read the entire manual so I will know how to run my camera inside and out-- so far I've read through page 5...

Yesterday Mason also had an appointment with an orthodist (is that even a word??? orthodics/prosthetics) to see if he needed a helmet. I have been so paranoid and worried that he was going to need one, so at Mason's last appointment our doctor told us (me) that HE didnt think that Mason needed a helmet but if it would make me feel better he would refer me...The doctor Mason saw told me that his head was fine-- it is a BIG head-- in the 100th percentile (that's ok dad says-- bigger brains!!) but it is "perfectly shaped." Whew now I can stop worrying! Im sure now I will just find something else to worry over.. I'm told that's what mom's do!

I am so happy Bobby comes home Friday night!!! Only 2 more days!!! Honestly, I have a whole new respect for single moms and moms whose husbands are deployed. Talk about superwomen!!!!!!!

TGIF!

Mason is always so smiley in the mornings - I just love it! The picture above is him laying on my bed this AM while I was trying to get ready for work. I don't know why all of a sudden he thinks he needs to be up at 6:30 with me! He also LOVES looking in the mirror-- I always ask him "Mason should we go see the baby in the mirror?" He gets all excited- it is so cute to think that he doesn't realize it is HIM yet! :) It has been a little nuts with Bobby being gone to school -- and we still have the weekend + one whole work week to go.... I am totally loving my "mommy & Mason" time, but will be very glad when Bobby comes home! Mason will be too. Whenever Bobby calls I put the phone on speaker phone ~ Mason gets all excited and starts looking around for his daddy, then tries to eat the phone. I am so glad it is FRIDAY! And it is acutally a BEAUTIFUL day. Can't wait to be able to go for a walk with Mase tomorrow and Sunday - I just hope it stays nice.

more digital pages

here are a few more digital pages I put together last night.

i am really starting to LOVE digital scrapbooking ~ there is still so much more I'd love to learn to do but slowly I am getting the hang of it! There is so much that I love about it - no mess, it goes quicker for me, I can resize/crop pictures however I want - and my favorite part is that I can reuse my favorite papers over and over again! And an added bonus, it is WAY cheaper- I always just download all of the papers/elements that I use-- most of these came from A Cherry on Top website. I dont really "feel" the same when I make my digital pages though-- as strange as it sounds, there is just some crazy feeling I get about physically cutting/gluing that I dont get from making my digital pages. Maybe I need to try hybrid scrapbooking- but first I need to find a way to print my pages! {...and I dont think buying a 12" printer is an option seeing as though I just bought a new camera-- which STILL hasn't arrived!}

Tonight my mom is coming over to help with Mason while I have my open house. I am so lucky she lives so close! Thanks mom for always being there! It is a lot of work but I have some candles that have been in my candle closet for quite some time- out with the old, in with the new! :)

my sick babes

Yesterday we had a mommy & mason day-- Mason was home sick from daycare. He was coughing so bad he would throw up! Poor little guy!!! I brought him to the doctor, he just has a viral infection (on top of his ear infection!) so not much we can do... he gets albuterol through a nebulizer every 4 hours, which helps him with his congestion. He was a sleepy baby yesterday, so we did a lot of cuddling! I kept thinking over and over yesterday how much fun it would have been if i had my new camera-- it STILL hasnt' arrived. BOO!! I guess it hasn't even been a week yet, but I am not a very patient person!!!

I was back to work today- Mason was at home with Grandma-- he loves it when grandma watches him. I heard from another girl I work with daycare was closed today, and Monday there was only 1 kid there-- the rest were out sick! :(

4 month pics

this is what i do!

Mason just keeps growing and changing every day! He has been "discovering" his hands for quite awhile now (always sucking on them!) but he is starting to grab objects now too. It is so funny because you can just tell he focuses so hard on getting his hands to do what he wants them to do.

He continues to make the funniest facial expressions -- whenever he is "curious" about something, his left eyebrow goes up and he gets a puzzled look on his face. It makes me laugh every time! He has also been sticking out his tounge CONSTANTLY lately - I call him my little lizard. Nothing makes my day more though than when he smiles (even though sometimes those smiles come at 1AM when he is trying to wake everyone up to play!)

Last night we TRIED to go to Bobby's softball game - even were all decked out in Mets gear - but it was just too windy and cold for Mason's poor little ears. So we went to Target instead, and then went home.

This weekend my cousin Sarah is getting married- tonight is the rehearsal, the wedding is Saturday. Then Sunday Bobby leaves for Arkansas and will be gone until the 19th. It will be a very lonely house without him, but Im hoping my new camera comes during that time so I can learn how to use it!

new camera!!

Im so excited! I ordered my very first digital slr camera! I got a nikon d-60. I have been debating whether or not to get one for MONTHS now - and so finally I was talking with bobby about it AGAIN and he said "why don't you just go buy it?" SO I DID!!! So excited for it to get here! It is going to take me forever and a day to figure out I'm sure, but Im excited to learn! It's like I'm 8 years old on Christmas Eve again! I dont know if I will be able to sleep tonight!!