Raspberries, Cereal, and Frosty Boy

It has been a busy week here in the Green household! I think the only one that has done a lot of loafing around is Lola, which is typical for her. Callum has had a very good week overall. We've tried altering his schedule a bit during the day to hopefully improve his naps which hasn't worked so far, but we'll keep trying. He's still usually all smiles when he's awake though so the lack of decent naps doesn't seem to bother him still.
Earlier this week he started sticking out his tongue to try to blow raspberries and finally succeeded. Now he thinks it's hilarious and does it all the time, which usually is pretty funny until he spits all over us. But we will take that over his occasional volcanic spit-ups any day.

At his last week's check-up the doctor gave us the green light to start rice cereal. We decided to try a bit of it on Friday and he's been really enjoying it overall. Although it would have been nice to try the cereal before he learned how to blow raspberries because he realized it was fun to blow them with the cereal in his mouth. He wasn't too sure of some of the bites of cereal.
But decided it was a piece of cake and wanted to take over for himself:
Playing with the spoon though instead of eating is way more fascinating:
"What? It's just eating. I've been doing this my whole life:"

Yesterday we headed over to Browsburg and were able to spend some time with Uncle Andy G., Aunt Brooke, Aunt Shannon, Daniel, Hayden, and Reegan. We were able to finally see Reegan's eyes open for a bit. She's definitely already on her way to surpassing Callum in weight, although that doesn't take much since he's such a peanut. Callum enjoyed all of the attention and was such a trooper when Hayden accidentally nailed him in the back of the head with a foam football (It was pretty funny--I wish we had it on video. Poor Hayden hid under the table thinking he would be in trouble, but Callum didn't seem to realize anything had happened at all). Now if Callum's like this when he's older and people throw things at him, we might have a problem and have to think carefully about his choice of sports and running into guys named Bubba in dark alleys.
After using a bit of bribing, we were also able to get a picture of Callum and his cousins.
He was quite fascinated with both of them and at one point was holding Reegan's hand. They seemed to be getting along quite well at first: But Callum didn't do much so Reegan was quickly bored by her cousin:


Last but definitely not least, it was finally a nice enough day today to be able to spend some time outside. We bundled Callum up into his spiffy jogging stroller Scott got for Christmas and took him for his first long walk. Most importantly, he can now officially call himself a New Pal resident as he was able to enjoy his first trip to Frosty Boy. It definitely won't be his last one of the year!

Check-up

Callum's official 4 month picture with Hey Hey (who is sporting new glasses and slippers just for the occasion). We're even getting a thumbs up too!

Plus, we were able to get a couple of other cute pictures while we were at it.

We took Callum for his check-up today and he officially weighs 12 lbs., 4 oz. and is 24.5 in. long. Still a peanut weight wise, but the doctor was pleased because he is still growing according to his curve. They had difficulty getting his length because he wanted to keep his legs straight up in the air--he didn't realize he wasn't getting a diaper change right then.

His other new trick is that he has decided to start eating his toes. He has been staring intently at them for a while now and grabbing the back of his legs, but he finally figured out how to put his foot in his mouth. He doesn't seem to have a preference for socks or sockless feet. We haven't yet gotten a picture of him eating the feet, but we did snap a few of him trying.