John is getting bigger by the day.  He has had the chance to meet his new cousins Alix,  Mason, and Elizabeth.  He can’t wait to meet Anna in September, who was born the same day John was 2 months old, Easter Sunday!  Anna’s birth marks the end of the Reiter Baby Boom™.  Between 12/11/08 and 4/12/09, there were 5 more grandkids born to bring the total to 18 in our family now.  We are split evenly, 9 boys and 9 girls.

The Basment Project is nearing its end.  I’m actually writing this post while I wait for the carpet installers to arrive.  After that is done, all I’ll have to do is put my doors back on the hinges and install the new windows once they are delivered.  The project will end up taking about 6 months to complete.  I’d say that isn’t bad considering I became a father in the middle of it!

Mommy and Daddy are so nice to me.  They feed me, change me, burp me, bathe me, talk to me, and even rock me to sleep!  I really do love them.  That is why I always leave them nice presents in my diapers!  Sometimes I even try to give them a bath while they are changing me!  They are so sweet.  I love them so much, and they love me too!

I really like car rides.  I’m not sure what it is, but I just fall asleep right away.  That is pretty much all I do anyways, but for some reason it is so easy to do in the car!  My car seat could be a little more comfortable, though.  Maybe mommy and daddy should start warming it up for me before they put me in it.  Yeah, I think that’s what it is.  I don’t really mind it once I get it nice and warmed up.

Oh, and would someone tell daddy to stop talking in 3rd person?  It is really getting on my nerves.  He keeps putting words in my mouth!

I’m a big slacker that I haven’t updated this over the past week and a half.  John Andrew was born on February 12 @ 6:59 PM.  He weighed in at 6lbs 12oz and was 19.5 inches long.  He and mom are doing well. It is impossible to describe the feelings you get holding your son in your arms.  He is simply amazing.

There are more pictures added to my Picasa site as well.  I’ve made it so you can browse all of them from within my site.  Just click the Pictures tab at the top.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

The LAN Party was a big success.  We had 19 or 20 people in the house playing Team Fortress 2, mainly.  We even had Garrett and Justin playing from home here and there.  It was a blast.  We mixed in some WAR and the Left 4 Dead demo when we had the chance.  I’m still looking for the owner of a jacket that was left, if it is one of you 3, let me know.

I have been working on a new project lately.  It is a website for my swim team.  It is coming along quite nicely.  I’m using an open source content management system, Joomla. For someone like me, that isn’t a web developer, it makes it VERY easy to setup a website.  There is a fairly large community that creates modules and plugins for the software as well.  That is really where open source shines.  I use an older version of Joomla for one of our websites at work, so I had a little bit of background with it going in.

We are getting closer and closer to the baby’s due date.  I have moved the bed from our guest bedroom upstairs into the office room.  I have some furniture to move still and then we can start getting the painting and such underway for the baby room.  We have a nice train-themed decoration set for the room.  We are looking forward to getting it all ready.

Yeah, that’s right.  Take a good look.  He’s making me jealous already.

Katie and I are very excited.  The baby is healthy and we both wanted a boy first anyways, so yesterday’s ultrasound went great!  We went to “Baby Mania” at Mehlville this morning… pretty much one big yard(crap) sale.  All we picked up was a bassinet and saw a bunch of pregos.  What fun!

For those that don’t know already, our baby is due February 19th.  We are excited!  If anyone has girl name suggestions, feel free to pass them along.  We don’t know what it is yet(maybe in a couple weeks, that we haven’t decided either!), but we have struggled with deciding on a girl name.

I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!  I know I will.

The Mizzou Student Rec Center is amazing.  They have 4 pools, several BBall courts, lounges, and other facilities I didn’t see.  The place is huge!  The pool is supposed to be the fastest in the region since it is so deep(fewer waves).  There have been several world records broken there already.  I didn’t quite break one… but a guy on my team(the reason why I didn’t win any Golds) broke 5 records this weekend.  They were Missouri records based on age group, 25-29.