Eighteen weeks old

Calvin is starting to get attached to a stuffed animal.  He fallen in love with an elephant head on a blanket.  It helps him to keep calm(er) in the car and helps him fall asleep.  He likes to hold it by his head and sometimes chews on it.  I'm trying to get him to like other similar ones too so that we aren't in trouble if this ones goes missing.

Calvin has also discovered his exersaucer this week and is loving it.  He was getting quite mad anytime we tried to lay him down in his play gym this week and was pushing up and using his legs quite a bit.  He loves being able to look around and see what's going on when he's in the exersaucer.  He plays with a couple of the toys, but mostly just uses it to see what brother is up to.

He's not a huge fan of being in his stroller for long periods of time.  He will sit in it while Caleb rides around the block or for maybe 20 minutes while we play outside, but after that he wants held.  This made for an interesting trip to the zoo.  I don't have a picture, but imagine this...Calvin in the Moby on me, me pushing the stroller, Caleb running around and doing a really good job of staying with us all while there were 16 busses of school aged children there for field trips.  Needless to say, we didn't stay too long and I'm not sure which one of us needed a nap the most!

Calvin also got to try swimming this week.  And like typical second time parents, we didn't bring the water camera so we only got a couple of pictures before Travis got in.  I wouldn't say he loved swimming, but he tolerated it.  He stayed in for about 35 minutes and then he started to seem cold.  He does still love the bath though!