5 months

Crosby Graham Mellenthin is exactly 5 months old today.

On his 5 month "birthday" he tried carrots for the first time and did pretty well considering he has only been eating rice cereal for about a week.  Crosby loves to chew on everything he can get his hands on, he drools all the time and loves watching his older brother play in the house.  Time is flying but each week it seems as if Crosby is more fun than the last week.  The journey has been great so far and we are super excited to watch him grow with our family this year.

4 months & counting

Crosby had his 4 month dr. appt about 10 days ago and he will be 5 months old in a couple days....sorry for the delayed update.  Here it is:

Height     27 inches (90%)
Weight    18.5 lbs (90%)
Head        42.9 cm (50%)

This week he found his voice so it has been interesting watching him get excited and actually making some noise.  He loves being upright, hates laying down / being held like a baby.  Crosby does great in the swing, the exersaucer and the jump-a-roo.  This week he has been a sleeping champ, almost 7 straight hours which is about double from what we are programed for. We introduced rice cereal this week and it has been hit or miss depending on his mood but does well with it at the sitters house.

Parker loves his little brother more than anything (except maybe dinosaurs).  We are lucky that he is so good with the little one, especially now that they share a room in the temp home.   Last night Parker and dad went tubing down the snowhill and we went faster and farther than all the other kids (we've got at least 100 lbs on them) and Parker let them hear about it.  It was pretty funny to hear him trash talk the other kids about how much faster we were than them.  I love the competitive spirit, now we just need to channel it.

Parker helping us clean the baby bootie...

Dino Duo.

A clean beginning for the first cereal feeding.....

and this is how it really goes all of you new parents...
more outside than in.

Late Christmas pics

Christmas Day.  Last Christmas at the Porlier St home and santa did not disappoint.  Parker's favorite gifts were his dinosaurs from Santa and the special one he got from Uncle Dan.

We are officially moved out and began the next chapter:  save $$$, look at homes and hopefully make a decision in 2011 on where we want to live.  Hope 2011 treats everyone well.  We are looking forward to having even more fun with Parker this year and watching Crosby figure out how to crawl, eat baby food and maybe even squeak out a few words.

T-Rex and Stegosaurus hiding in the presents.

This is one happy kid.

The dolphin pillow pet was a hit,
Parker sleeps on it every night.  Good work Santa.

Snakes and reptiles, Parker loves to hear about new species
so we read a lot of books similar to this one.

Crosby's first Christmas, what a cutie.

Uncle Dan won the best best gift of 2010 award,
Parker didn't put Rexy down for a  few days.

Pen and Crosby on Christmas Day,
she loves that little chunker!