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Sunday, January 30, 2011

The family resemblance

Some more pictures of Jack as well as some baby pictures of myself.
















Hanging out looking like a Sportel. The next pic of me is at two months. Jack is about 2 months in the picture next to him, but I hardly thing its a fair comparison at this point.





































The pictures below are much closer to each other in relative age (right around the due date).



































He already knows the senior picture pose he wants. So he seems to have a small mouth like I did and a very similar nose. His ears also seem to resemble mine being very small (and I think attached earlobes which I didn't think Katie was a carrier for, so we will have to see). We even have similar bags under our eyes. Although mother thinks he has katie's eyes. But he definitely has the Vander Laan hair.

But he has also inherited the teacher glare that I give in my class when things get a little out of hand....


Just in case anyone missed it...

http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/sports/ncaa_basketball/Biggest-comeback-in-Hope-Calvin-history

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Catching Up

I know that I haven't been much of a blogger the last year or so. I thought I'd catch up a bit with some pictures from the present day back to October

This was tonight. Adeline said she wanted to paint on the "weasel" (easel)
I liked this picture of Adeline's eyes.
We've all been catching up on the sleep we missed in 2010.
Evie preparing to brave some bitter WI temps
Waiting outside for the Christmas parade.
Avery's birthday
Adeline's Birthday
My birthday (31 fingers)
Out for a walk

Here's our house in the suburbs.

This is part of the fishing weekend Avery and I took up north with some of Ashley's family. Above is the ferry at Kitchitikipee or something like that. I kind of remember visiting as a kid. Mom and dad confirmed that we have been there before. Below is Avery turning the wheel to move the ferry across the lake.
This was my attempt of a self portrait of the two of us fishing. You'll notice I made Avery wear eye protection in honor of Grandpa Maier.

You'll notice I was in a lot of the images this time. I haven't taken a lot of pictures recently so Ashley has been picking up the slack which has resulted in me being in front of the camera more often. She's encouraged me to pick up the camera some more this year, so hopefully you'll see more posting in 2011 that I had in 2010.


Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Another Birthday!

Looks like Alena and her daddy have the same sense of humor ;-) ...

Happy Birthday Reuben!!!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Work in Progress

Dad says something is missing in the first one. I tend to like it this way ;-)
I have some tweaking to do but looks like it could work this time...



Thursday, January 6, 2011

Happy "Birthday" to Jack

Well, after almost two months of labor, we finally have a son.... He is 7 pounds and 12 ounces. (or 3500 grams for the metric nerds out there) Today is Jack's due date, so to mark this momentous occasion I thought I would post some pictures. We have Mattie and Spencer. Marge and her daughter Mary seeing the little guy for the first time. And down below we have a before and after (the two with the orange pipes) of him in the hospital a few days after he was born and yesterday.