Family Time

All three of us are tired but happy to be spending the day together yesterday

Emily got me the best Father's Day present

Active Alert time

Youtube sensation Simon Basque returns with another hit video!  This time he's in his active alert phase, looking around and putting his brain to work.

Bella Baby

We got a free photo session from Bella Baby in the hospital. Cindy and Ken bought the CD so we can reproduce... I've included most of the pictures after the jump. Here's one with Simon holding onto Alan's finger. Crazy how tiny he was!

Falling asleep

Simon's first video! He's making cute little faces and noises as he's settling in for an afternoon nap.

Sleepy Burping

After an epic 2 hour feeding this afternoon Simon was wiped out but still needed to be burped... usually he puts up a bit of a fight when I'm trying to burp him but this time he was just too tired to care.  The resigned look on his face while we were doing this cracked Emily and I up.

Welcome to Chicago, Simon Emory Basque

Less than 5 minutes old... he's just been wiped off and been checked out.  9 out of 10 on his Apgar test, even after all he went through this week!

Raise the Roof (May 3 - May 23)

I knew I was behind on posting pictures, but I just realized that even though I've posted some disaster shots from inside the house I haven't posted anything about the progress on the outside of the house since mid-April. 

By the end of the last post, we had the basement and kitchen framed out but nothing much done on the second floor yet.  The focus for the next couple of weeks was on the inside of the house so by May 3 they had only really finished up the sub-floor for the master bedroom but still no walls or roof.

More after the jump...