What a cutie! I just got my first (a pastel female, almost 3 months old) almost 2 weeks ago. You'll get a lot of great information here (as I see _Ataraxia has already given you)! I also joined ball-pythons.net which is an amazing forum with tons of great information!

The biggest advice I can give you is to make sure your husbandry is up to par. When I got my girl the store gave me not so great advice. While most people are against glass enclosures bc they make keeping ambient temp and humidity difficult, I re-did my enclosure to make it perfect. I started with a 10g glass tank with aspen bedding, a heat pad on the warm side with no thermoSTAT, just a digital thermometer with the probe against the glass on the inside, a single large hide that was way too big for her, and a glass water dish. Biggest thing was my heating pad was heating up to temps >120 - WAY too hot!

Before: http://imgur.com/PJKi4NI

After getting advice on here I got two smaller, identical hides (one for the cool side and one for the hot side), moved her water dish to the center, got a thermostat for the heat mat and put the probe with the digital thermometer probe (under substrate and against the glass near the center of the UTH), got a digital thermometer/hygrometer with the outside probe on the glass above the substrate on the warm side and the actual monitor on the cool side (gives me ambient temps for the warm and cool side), and got a ceramic hear emitter with a dimmer to make sure my ambient temperatures were okay. I also added bamboo sticks for her to climb on and an infrared temp gun to spot check temps with. I still need to hot glue down the wires/probes though.

After: http://imgur.com/qMDpbPw

As for handling, I have seen a ton of conflicting information about that. But definitely none for the first week home until he's eaten from you at least once, and then 24-48 hours after every meal.