Photography and "Ba!"

I got my 50mm lens back!!!!!!!!!  Can you tell I am excited??  

When I went to take Mason's 9 Month pictures, I pulled out my camera with the 50mm lens attached and started to shoot, only to discover that the lens would not focus.  Like, at all.  Blast!

So, 10 months later I finally decided to cough up the money and get it fixed because I missed it so badly!  In the mean time I used my wide angle lens and really developed an appreciation for that and learned more about taking pictures with a different lens.  Now I am relearning the 50mm.  But enough about lenses.... here are some photos I took with the 50mm because I was so thrilled to have it back.

How about that bed head??  

This was how he woke up every morning and after every nap before I finally decided to give him a little hair cut.  It was  hilarious but it was a huge frizzy mess that was hard to tame.  See below...

It took some effort to get it back to normal and it was still a bit crazy.

Mason is still infatuated with bark.

And driving his truck (with the soccer ball in the back).

And he eats the entire cookie at one time only to realize he needs to spit it out but doesn't want to spit it out.  Then, I will hold my hand up for him and he spits it in my hand. Sometimes he will grab my hand and hold it up to his mouth so he can spit out his too big bites.  Don't ask me why he has to spit it in my hand?

Mason loves his soccer ball (and all balls) and has learned how to dribble it.  He will bring us the ball and say "high" which means he wants us to throw it up in the air really high.  Then he will chase it and bring it back. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

He still loves flowers and always wants to smell them. Sometimes he says "ooooh."

Mowing the grass is his favorite past time. He is all over the yard with that thing and apparently it never gets old!

We like to explore the outdoors and see what we can find.  He is infatuated with all the little things in nature and I love showing them to him and teaching him what they are.  He is obsessed with the moon and talks about it all the time.  He always asks where it is, even in the day time. When he sees it he waves at it and blows it kisses.  The new moon was difficult to explain.  He kept asking where the moon was and I was like... uhhh, it's hiding!

He has mastered the art of sliding and LOVES it.  I took him to the park the other day and he kept going down the curly slide.  I would see him coming down on his belly, backwards, upside down, backwards AND upside down..... it was hilarious.

He likes to look through the holes...

Here he managed to pour a cup full of water on his head.  It really surprised him too!

Here he is with his "Ba!" 

I made the mistake of taking Mason's basket ball with us to the park thinking he might want to play with it some in between playing on the slides etc.  

Wrong! He wanted to play with the ball while on the equipment and slides.  He would not put it down!

I took it away from him at one point because he was having such a hard time getting around with it but he cried. I tried to hide it so he would play and forget about it, but he found it.

Here he is trying to climb the steps while holding the "ba."

He might be a tiny bit stubborn.  No idea where he gets it.