Bean's senior picture

Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros

Mana showed me this. I guess "Flight of the Conchords" is a TV show - two white guys from New Zealand that break into song (many times rap like this one). Mana and the rest of BHD have been watching it before band practice. This one cracks me up!

February calendar page

Here's today's LOAD (LayOut A Day) for the Big Picture Scrapbooking class.

Calendar page - January

Boy was I ambitious! I bought a blank calendar to embellish... all the way down to filling in the days. What a mistake! I have spent about 8 nights adhering my rub-on numbers. I'm sure each page of 30/31 days took me longer than making the layout. Oh well. Maybe next year I'll do an iPhoto calendar.

I'm also participating in a free class/challenge that I heard about from a fellow scrapper Lain Ehmann on her ScrapHappy podcast & blog. The challenge is to make 31 layouts a day (LOAD). I didn't join until just now, so I already I didn't meet that goal, but it will still be fun trying to get one done the rest of the month. Heck knows I have plenty to catch up on! Here's my layout for day #7 - first page in my calendar.

Mason's 9 (10) month pictures

You would think with us having all the photo equipment, we would be on top of taking our kids' photos. Ha! Well, here are Mason's 9 month photos taken at 10 months. We also managed to get a couple of the boys together.

Mase & Mana

So cute! We were putting away the holiday decorations and came upon the Santa hat. Mase kept taking it off, but managed to keep it on for one picture.

old photos

ok, maybe not so old. Mana found our old Olympus camera that we used to use before we got our SLR (Nikon D50) and there were still a bunch of pictures on it. Some were pretty old (September '06) and some a little more recent (June '07). The yard (landscaping/garden) shot is our old house and brought a little tear to my eye. I don't know why, but I still get a little sad when I think about our first house. It was the place where Bean grew up - learned to walk and talk. Even though he was 2.5 when we moved, he still remembers it and has brought it up out of the blue, "remember at our old house, we had a swingset?" Things like that make me sad. I miss the cool landscaping and swingset. Well, no going back. And besides, the 4 of us wouldn't fit in that tiny house! The other couple pictures are from summer '07. Not sure why we were using the old Olympus camera, but there they are. I can't believe how little Mase was! I guess he's still a little peanut. He just does so much more now - compared to then sitting in a bouncy chair. I was excited to see that we have a photo of Zander feeding Mason a bottle. I don't ever do the bottle thing when I'm with the boys since Mason gets "on tap", so this made me smile too.

Speaking of Mason doing stuff, he now points his little finger. Yesterday, he did it for the first time. I was holding him in the kitchen and he randomly pointed out the window while looking at his little hand as if he's thinking, "so that's what this thing at the end of my arm can do." So now, I'm always bugging him to point at something... and he does it. And he does it well - his little pointer finger pokes out and then he smiles all proud of himself. My little baby is getting smarter and growing up way too fast!!