i love being a mommy the best. but a close second, i love being an aunt. today, we welcomed joseph brice into the world a wee bit early. i bought a bag of potatoes last night that weighed more than his 5 and some change pounds. i wanted to capture his little milk bumps and his little hairy face so i had to use my macro lens for a lot of the shots so i could get super close. it is a little noisy. he was in and out of sleep and i was getting *really* close to his face and my noisy lens would zoom in on him. in one of his pictures, he was peeping out of one eye looking at me like i was a jive turkey for waking him up. :) he just doesn't know what i have in store for him for the next 3 dozen plus years.

welcome, joseph brice. you were born for such a time as this. . .