It's a darn Good Friday.

new lens!

I'm super pumped because I ordered a new lens for my camera and it came in yesterday! I'm a work in progress as far as being a "photographer." But, here are a few pics from my first try with the new lens.

This picture is not in focus, but it just shows how excited Cole is to have a new chew toy!
Have you ever tasted cardboard? The child is a goat.

Note: The collages are much easier to see if you click on them.

I love my kid.

Okay, so backstory...

When I get home in the evenings I watch The Office. I started noticing that when the theme song would come on, Cole would stop whatever he was doing and watch the opening credits. Then after the song ended, he would go on with whatever he was doing. I wondered...would this work if he was fussing?

This one's just for fun.

Seriously, how cute is this kid?

It's a small world

Okay, so apparently this guy...

...is my 4th cousin (I think it's 4th. I was never good at figuring out that stuff).
Anyway, he is my dad's dad's sister's son's son. You do the math.
(In case you don't know, that guy is Casey James from American Idol.)
I have a very vague memory of being at my Aunt's in Shreveport when I was about 6 (I think Casey is my same age), and meeting a blond haired boy named Casey. The only thing I remember is my uncle making a joke about having a Casey and a Lacy. Anyway, apparently he was at a family reunion I went to in 2001, but I don't remember him. It's funny that I remember that little snippet from 1990, but don't remember him from 2001.
Anyway, there you go.
All together now...it's a small world after aaaaallllllllll!!

MMM hushpuppies

There are several blogs I read on a daily basis, one of which is of a lady (that sounds so rude...but girl sounds wrong, too) woman in Arkansas. I started reading her blog well over a year ago when she was pregnant with her daughter, followed her throughout her daughter's lenghty hospital stay after she was born, and still read her now because I guess I'm nosey? I don't know. I like reading other people's blogs just to see what they do with their kids and stuff. To give me ideas.
Anyway, she has tons of readers, a lot of which are not from the South. So when she talks about food, she usually has to explain so that the Yankees people not from the South will know what she's talking about. :) Anyway, her post today talked about hushpuppies. I was reading the comments people were posting, and a lot of them had no idea what hushpuppies are. It just was crazy to me that they don't have hushpuppies up there...out there...whatever. Hushpuppies?? I couldn't imagine a world without them. Oh, and on a previous post, they didn't know what Ro-tel was. Can you even fathom a world without Ro-tel? Not a world I would want to be in, people. Sorry, I'm on a food tangent.

Cole is officially a crawling, meddling baby. He is waking up every morning at 4:30 screaming because his tooth is trying to push through. Then, by the end of the day, that bastard tooth is nowhere to be seen. I really hope it shows its ugly beautiful pearly white head soon. I feel so bad for him. We had a pretty good weekend. I think he's growing because he took very good naps all weekend. Otherwise he is normally NEVER asleep on the weekends. So something is definitely up.
Anyway, I hope to post some good crawling videos soon.

DANGEROUS!

Why is this dangerous, you ask? Because when he's like this, I want 10 more just like him!

Dangerous.

Get ready to be impressed.