Five months old!

Looks like Corin is having a little bit more fun than Nick.





I have been gone for work for a few weeks, so the blog has been falling behind.
Corin has had a busy several weeks. His Aunt Michelle came to Bloomington for her baby shower, so Corin got to meet lots of new friends and family members.
Then Grandpa and Mimi Yarde came into town for a visit.
He has hit the five month mark, and is really starting to use his voice now. He laughs and gurgles and yells pretty much all of the time.
I came home from my trip and discovered that we have a hive of bees living in the ceiling above our kitchen (they can't get into the house from there...yet). We've got someone coming tomorrow, but Kristi is living in a constant state of panic and I'm fully expecting that we will have Corin in a full bee keeper suit by the end of the day.

Day 142: GO COLTS!

I'm back from my trip and, while I had a great time, I couldn't be happier to be back home with my boy (Kristi too). Today was all about just hanging out together, watching football and laughing. His laugh really changed while I was gone. He used to just sort of chuckle (or a little Heh Heh), but now he is really laughing out loud.

Days 131-134: Reach out and grab it!

SHARK ATTACK!








These pics will have to get you through the next week. I'm leaving tomorrow for Budapest for a week, so there won't be any photo updates.
We had a good start to the weekend at home. Cousin Dmitri came and spent the night at our house last night. We all had a great time. He was happy and very gentle with Corin.
Corin has reached a wonderful time in his development. He smiles and laughs all of the time. If you are holding a toy and brush it up against his hand he will grab it from you and pull it to his mouth. He has pretty much total control of his head movements and can hold it up and turn it anywhere he wants for as long as he wants. You can see in the pictures above that he does push up off of the ground a little bit when he is on his tummy, but no real attempts to get up on all fours yet.

Days 125 - 128: Early Halloween

Someone gave us this costume for Corin, and we realized that it was not going to fit him in two months. So we played a little dress-up for an early Halloween. Kristi didn't know that I was putting it on him and when I walked out holding our little pea-pod she just broke put laughing. I wasn't sure that he was going to like wearing it, but he didn't seem to mind too much.
Tonight was only our second attempt at feeding Corin his rice cereal (everyday, every four days...close enough). He did much better, eating all that we had prepared for him. Now that it seems he knows what to do it should be easier to get him to do it (and to remember to do it in first place).
We are on the last of our size #1 diapers and have our size #2 packages at the ready. Our little pea is growing too big for his pod!

Day 123 - First Meal

Corin had his four month check-up at the doctor's office yesterday. She certifies that he is a healthy and beautiful baby boy. At the two month check-up he was in the 10th percentile for height and weight. Yesterday he weighed in at 15 pounds, 11 ounces (he really does weigh 15 pounds this time), and is 25.5 inches long. So he has jumped up to the 75th percentile for his age.
Since he is doing so well she said we could start trying to get him used to eating actual food by giving him rice cereal once a day. So we tried that tonight. He did fine sitting in his chair and let us put the food in his mouth, but I'm not sure that he knew what to do with it once it got in there. But he took a one or two good swallows, so we'll just keep working on it.
You can see in the top picture that he is grabbing onto his blanket. He has really started to grab onto things that are within his grasp, which is mostly blankets and burp clothes. He has just started to bring them to his mouth too (or bring his mouth down to his hands).

Day 121 - Four months old

Corin turned four months old today, and he celebrated in style by sleeping all the way through the night last night. 10:30 pm - 6:30 am. Wow! Mommy didn't even wake up in the middle of the night to pump. So it was a full night of sleep for everyone in the house. What a wonderful present.
Today we went down to Bloomington to work on my parents' house, and then went out to dinner with Pop, Lola, Grandma, Faye, Dmitri, Matt and Emily. So Corin got lots of hugs and kisses and dished out some smiles in return.
Tomorrow is his four month doctor check-up, so we'll let you know what the big chunk is weighing-in at soon.

Passing travelers

Not happy on his car ride :(

Sitting on Aunt Chelle's prego belly



Kristi, Corin and Grandma just got back from a weekend trip down to Atlanta to help Nick and Michelle move. Corin did well on the long car ride. Normally it would be an 8 hour drive, but with the baby it took about 10 hours. They would drive for 3 hours, then stop for about an hour and then repeat. Out of the 10 hours Kristi said he really only screamed in the car for about 40 minutes each way. I'm sure it was a long 40 minutes but it certainly could have been worse.
Grandma and Michelle were on full time baby duty while Kristi, Nick and his family moved them into the new house.
They got home at about 1 am this morning, and now I'm sitting in the airport waiting to get on a plane to go to Pittsburgh for a week. I'm very thankful that Kristi and Grandma made the late night / early morning trip to get home early so I could spend at least a few hours with my little guy before I had to leave for my trip.