Weekly Recap

Parker (5 months)
We added lunch to Parker's eating routine this week.  He started the week eating 1/2 a jar for lunch and 1/2 a jar for dinner and by Sunday was up to 3/4 jar for lunch and a full jar for dinner.  Parker is definitely growing.  The best way I can tell is that we are moving him up to his 6 month clothes and he actually has some rolls on his thighs now.  Even Parker was surprised about his progress!

Overall. Parker was happy and easy going this week.  He loves to dole out smiles to anyone how gives him attention.

We made a brief attempt to break him from his swaddle this week but he did this for about 20 minutes with his eyes closed.  So we figured we'll worry about getting him to sleep through the night first.

The biggest news this week was Parker is starting to sit up.  He can go for a few seconds straight up but then he will generally make a tripod with his hands and hang out for a while. 

Unfortunately his efforts have often big thwarted by congratulatory licks from his big sister.

Carter (23 months)
Carter started out the week under the weather.  He came home from daycare with a stomach bug Monday and spend the next two days taking it easy with lots of sleep and snuggles.

Thankfully, he seemed to be back to normal by Thursday.  Carter continues to expand his vocabulary and develop more of an understanding of sentence structure.  He has a few complete sentences and is using more and more verbs.  His favorite word this week was "Carter".  He loves to talk about what Carter is going to do and what belongs to Carter ("mine" was probably his favorite word from the previous week).

Brothers
Parker was really excited to show his big brother his progress on sitting this week.

He had a lot of tumbles early in the week...

So Carter spent some time modeling how it was done!

Here are a few cute pictures of the boys from this week:

Showing solidarity to get Carter well!

All the Holden Men