My baby boy turned four months old yesterday. Here are a few things he's been up to lately...

Eating cereal, although he's not quite sure what to think yet!:

Enjoying bath, but getting too big for the baby tub:

Often sleeping through the night (he often only eats once in a twelve or thirteen hour stretch!):

Hanging out with his brother (and 'the dog'):

Sitting in the Bumbo:

Smiling and being cute (and wearing 6-12 month clothes!):

Playing in the exersaucer:

Sucking the thumb of one hand, while covering his eyes with the other to get himself to sleep (this picture is just thumb sucking- I haven't caught the other on camera yet):

Still disliking the car seat, and leaving the house in general:

And 'tummy-time' is not a favourite activity yet:

But he still loves to be held close, hugged, kissed, and tickled:

When I took him to the hospital this week, Elwin weighed 18 pounds and 7 ounces. He is growing very strong, and can hold himself up on his legs now.

He has been drooling like crazy, and I am expecting to see a tooth pop through any day. This extra drool has given him the chance to spit and blow bubbles, which he loves.

Elwin enjoys music and tries to sing. He is usually quite soft-spoken, but once he gets going, it's hard to stop him! I love hearing his baby whispers (really, he does whisper), and I think he loves it when I lean in close to hear all of the important things he has to say.

From day one, he has been a little snuggle-bug. He is now leaning into my face with his mouth wide open when I kiss him, and it looks like he is trying to reciprocate, but isn't quite sure what to do yet!

I LOVE this babe, and his cute dimples!

Elwin is sick. He's been fussing a lot the past couple of days, but yesterday was terrible. He either slept (and not much) or cried, which is very unlike him.

So this morning, when he woke up bawling instead of smiling, I took him to the hospital. We were in a hurry, and he was obviously feeling rotten so I didn't change him. When we got there, the nurse pulled his slipper off because she needed a toe to measure his pulse, and this is what she found:

She didn't even need to take his sleeper off! I was completely embarrassed, because I actually knew about the hole, but I've been finding it difficult to make the time to change Elwin's dresser over, so he has very little to wear right now in his size.

Needless to say, his bigger (non-holey) clothes are now sorted and ready to be washed!

And Elwin has his first ear infection! No wonder he hasn't been himself. Hopefully we can get him to swallow enough of the medication so he'll start to feel better soon. He has this little trick where he actually stores the meds in his cheek, and keeps it there for quite a while, then spits it out when he thinks you are done!

A few weeks ago, we went to visit Chris' grandmother so she could meet Elwin. It was a really fun day and Josiah enjoyed seeing all of Grammie's neat little things.

Last weekend we drove to meet my new nephew Oliver. It was a three hour drive, and we are learning that Elwin is not a natural traveller yet like Josiah was. We had a few stops along the way!

Here is Elwin with his beautiful new cousin. There is about three-and-a-half months between them.

This is me and my sister and our four boys (and it's very hard to get four kids under the age of three to look at the camera all at once!).

After that, we went to my mom's place for the night. Here are some pictures of us playing in the leaves and enjoying the outdoors:

And that was our weekend!

For Thanksgiving it was just our family this year, so we made a turkey dinner at home...

And then went to the national park in our area for an outdoor day with playing, a hike, a beach walk, and turkey left-overs.

It was such a beautiful day!

More picture updates to follow!

I have been taking so many pictures lately and posting so few! Here are some favorites from memories we've been making lately...


First day of preschool, which Josiah is really enjoying! It is just one morning a week, and it is a Christian co-op school.

Josiah and Chris took a real VIA train to Grammy's house. Josiah was in awe!

Elwin loves Grammy's house too!

Hanging out at home and getting used to everyone's schedules!

Josiah's 3rd birthday:

(hot dogs, as requested!)

A digger and race car cake. He was very excited to play in the leftovers!

Elwin is sleeping in his crib and the boys are sharing a room. It's going really well! The other night, Elwin was laughing in his sleep, which made Josiah laugh, but other than that they have both slept well.

First time playing the X-Box:

I'll post more tomorrow! (Wow, I'm so far behind!)