haircut time!

Thought you all might enjoy pictures of Casey's first haircut. He was pretty good throughout as long as he could see his mom.


bangs daddy can be jealous of.


"Wow, I can see!"

Happy Holidays!

We decided to try to do a Christmas picture of Casey and I thought it would be cute to put the Santa hat on him. Well, this is the first and only shot. Nice to have such a cooperative kid.

Full disclosure: We tried to get pictures with a nice holiday sweater but he wouldn't sit still for 2 seconds. Guess an outfit change is not an option in Casey photo shoots, so we're happy we got this one.




And here he is chewing on the baby Jesus from our wooden nativity set we decided he could play with. He usually has a wise man in one hand and a sheep in the other.



And I promised some more videos, so here are a few. He's doing so many interesting things, we could probably just set up a live "Casey-cam" so everyone could keep up. (I know some of you would probably enjoy that).


Nice little stroll across the kitchen!





Casey's magic act (and notice his little one-knee crawl/walk. Should be abandoning that for full-time walking soon, but it's pretty entertaining)





Going to see Grandma.





He's been working on these rings for a while and seems to have it now.

Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Birthday Casey! Step aside, he's comin' through!

We had a very nice visit from Casey's Nebraska Grandma Ruby this last week. She was here for Thanksgiving and Casey's 1st birthday. It was wonderful that it only took a few minutes for him to shine up to her (hadn't seen her since he was 3 months old). We had a plentiful Thanksgiving feast as usual (Casey even had a little of almost everything-just mashed up a bit) and we all enjoyed the parade! Then a quiet birthday celebration Saturday with presents, naps, and cupcakes for all! We're planning a trip to the beautiful drive-through light show at the Newport News Park tonight. More videos to come in the next week or so--he's doing so many new things but I don't want to put them up all at


Full from dinner


Parade watching!


Love that smurf balloon!


Wow, fire!



Took him a minute to decide it was ok, but then he lit into the cupcake.


Clean up on high chair 1! (I know, I've seen much worse 1st b-day messes)


Opening presents (well, playing with boxes and eating paper at least)


Yes, mommy is responsible for the bows on the head.




Nice shot with Grandma at the Virginia Living Museum (everybody looking at the camera AND smiling)


Christmas tree at the Living Museum


yucking it up at the table at snack time


An actual calm moment!



A nice stroll across the kitchen smiling at Grandma.