This site continues to be neglected.  I blame facebook.  Either way, Casey gave birth yesterday at 7:56PM to Scott.  He was 8lbs 9oz and 19 inches long.  Everyone is doing great! 

I guess It seems like I forgot this was here... that's not the case.  I'm just lazy, busy, and busy.  I'll now post some pictures and videos below.

Jake loves the cat...

And the phone...

And he's gotten pretty good at grabbing things from the water, deep enough his face goes in a bit.

Beach photos!

Playing with the ducks

Running from the ducks

Dancing at BD Reilly's

Sliding

I realize my website is basically a photoblog.  But it gives me a place to talk about and choose specific shots I take.  Flickr has turned into more of a bunch of photo shoeboxes as opposed to an album.  Well this is the album :)  Enjoy

Casey's mom was in town last week and we managed to get out quite a bit.  These were taken at a restaurant on the lake called "Cafe Blue." 

We also managed to have a little St. Patty's day get together on The Cove.  Here's some from that.  More from this are forthcoming.  I took a bunch of film too. 

I also took a day off work to hang out with Casey.  We dropped Jake off at daycare and did some shopping, ate some lunch, and took a long walk in the woods.

Finally... I took some shots of Jake doing some of what he does, plus a cardinal hat.

I took my camera to his swim class again. I even brought a flash this time since the place is a bit dark.  Seemed to help.  Shots turned out quite good if I do say so myself.

This was Monday after he was sick all weekend and he was still happy as can be swimming around. 

Sick Jake sleeping on mommy.

Jake after being spun around in the pool.

Hi Dad!

Hello there.  She's 5 months older.  I guess Jake is fairly large (although she was a preme too).

I can knock that over... no problem.

Funny face.

We got around 3-4 inches of snow at our house today.  Got kicked out of work a little early as well.  Some of the "kids" in the neighborhood made some snowmen. 

Casey, Jake, and Snowman.

Some of the neighbor's kids playing. 

Run!

Isn't he cute?

I guess it's only fitting that I finally post Christmas photos since I didn't take my lights down until today.  We had an unplanned trip to St. Louis that took up a couple of weekends.  Anyway.  Jake continues to grow and learn new skills.  He's really turning into quite the little man.  He's happy just about all of the time, laughs histerically, smiles, rolls around, sits like a champion, and even attemps to swim. 

Jake's normal "What's going on over there" look. 

Matcing "puke" sweaters as my sister says.  She hated my sweater so much, she bought one for Jake.

Puff's stocking stuffer for my Niece.

My nephew feeding his uncle.

Sister in-law reading her recipe book.

Jake loves his swimming class.

Splashin'.

Grabbing the underwater ring.

Finally got around to taking some pictures and getting them online.  Jake keeps growing and growing. 

I even took some more Christmas type photos in the living room with window lighting.  Turned out pretty good.

And my personal favorite...

I also took some pictures at Ryan's (my nephew) birthday party. 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan1son/sets/72157622957849422/

And for the rest of the Jake christmas pictures...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan1son/sets/72157622957857366/

August and part of September has already come and past.  Things have been pretty hectic around these parts.  Jake is at Day Care now, my nephew Joey had multiple heart surgerys over the last couple of weeks, so the picture taking has been minimal.  I finally got around to taking some over the last couple of weekends for some friends kids birthday parties.  Here's some highlights!

Jake (he's getting big already).

Birthday Girl!

Jake smiling at his mommy.

Half a hog, partially smoked.

Jake hanging out in his bouncer.

Train ride!

Ryan

For more see... http://flickr.com/dan1son

So I figured I'd be updating this page more often than before, but that somehow isn't the case.  I think the whole facebook/flickr thing is taking over the blog and I'm just not sure if there's anybody who reads this and not facebook.  If there are, let me know. 

Anyway.  I like the blog style better than facebook for most of these things anyway, so I should try to get a post up here whenever I add some photos to keep it alive. 

Jake is doing well.  He's sleeping well, growing very quickly (over 10lbs already), looks at everything, is very alert, and has sort of started smiling (which is cool). 

I have some photos taken randomly (including last weekend with my dad) that I haven't processed yet.  I'll get some time one of these evenings to do that.  Here's some you may have missed from before.

Time to go home...

Holy yawn!

Hanging with grandma.

Whoa mom!

Hey grandpa.

First bottle feeding... seems to enjoy it just fine.