Kaden’s due date is tomorrow! We celebrated yesterday by taking him to visit the grandparents and cousins he hadn’t met yet.

My parents have pictures of him and his great-grandparents that I will post in the photo gallery when they decide to e-mail some. He didn’t get pictures with his cousins Isaac or Ethan, but did meet them and got a few poses in with his cute cousin Leora.

Heidi and Bob-O have more pictures on their blog. Kaden also got photos taken today at Sears. We will have those in a few weeks.

Kaden had his one month checkup today even though he won’t actually be a month old until Thursday. He now weighs 6 lbs 12 oz, which is a pretty good gain since he was well under 5 lbs a few days before we left the hospital. He also grew another 1/2 inch since his last appointment, which brings him to a total of 19.5″ long. We already had to retire some of his clothes since he is growing so fast.

BEER mom took a few new pictures today which follow. We are pretty used to parenting now, but are still trying to adjust to not getting any sleep. I can’t speak for her, but I’m pretty convinced it’s worth it.

She hasn’t been able to write or do much recently since she’s been busy with him when I’m at work, there also isn’t a lot going on with the beer since I still have 2 cases of wheat beer. I have been working quite a bit on my karaoke social network and a new project that only a few people know about. More on that and Kaden next time.

Here are the new pictures:

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The wheat beer is done and tastes great. We will be in Overland Park on the 26th, so if you are in the area come try some. Otherwise you are always welcome to stop by our place in Wichita for a sample.

It looks pretty clear compared to the other stuff I’ve brewed, but definitely tastes like wheat beer. I will post pictures next time I have one and remember the camera.

The bubbling sound coming from our fermenter slowed the other day so BEER mom and I bottled it Thursday night once baby went to sleep.

We had a rough first few nights with him, because waking up every 3 hours wasn’t something we were used to. He also didn’t like something Laura ate so we quickly learned about the most useful parenting secret – mylicon drops.

He’s sleeping fine now and had his first doctor’s appointment yesterday. There are more pictures of him after the bottling pictures.

How to bottle beer

I’ve already talked about how easy it is to make beer, and bottling is no different. You typically need 2 1/2 cases of bottles for bottling time (if you are making a 5 gallon brew) ± another 4 – 6 depending on how full you fill them.

The first and most important step when bottling is having everything sanitized and prepared before you begin.

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