spring & my new toy

I got a great new camera for Christmas, it's all fancy and sleek and maybe a little too sleek - it doesn't stand up very well on it's own.  And if you know us, well really just me, you know we love to take pictures of ourselves, either with Coleson's extended arm or the camera's timer.  So I bought an awesome gorillapod tripod so that we can all be in the photos again.  It just arrived today, but I've already been having lots of fun with it!  Here's the tripod sitting in the tree, just to see if it could really sit in a tree, and yes it can :)

We have a great tree in our front yard that we've been enjoying checking on this spring.  This one tree has a bird's nest and six cocoons in it!  Ryan loves the cocoons (think The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which was already a bedtime favorite, but then became a speech book so a week's worth of practicing words that included cocoon).  He's always excited to see how they are doing, see how many we can count, and talk about the "beautiful butterflies" growing inside.