5 months old!

Harris is five months old today! (Connor flashback)

Harris has discovered his tongue, likes to talk baby talk, LOVES toys (Connor pretty much ignored them at this age), and has tried baby cereal and carrots. If we don't get the cereal to his mouth fast enough, he hits the bowl!

Harris may love his toys and his food but his FAVORITE thing of all is Connor. Harris watches everything Connor does and most of the time can be cheered up just by Connor talking to him. Of course, if Harris is loud enough, Connor gets frustrated with the crying and leaves the room! Oh, Harris cries A LOT more than Connor did at this age. Harris wakes up angry most of the time - usually because he is hungry. And he doesn't calm down until the food is in his mouth! (His G6PD D causes a fast metabolism that could be the reason for the angry hunger!)

Harris and his Mama have a lot in common - if we're hungry, we're mad. If we're tired and not in bed, we're mad. 8-)
Harris already loves reading books. He is not happy unless he can see the pages and then he will sit and pay attention to book after book. We try to bring Harris in to Connor's nighttime stories each day.
Slowly our little guy is becoming ticklish and sometimes when he is playing by himself on his tummytime mat or in his swing, he laughs out loud! And of course he loves to snuggle. He sleeps on his belly in the crib for most of the night but around 5 AM he comes into our room and snuggles back to sleep. Harris still wakes up once a night - Connor slept 12 hours straight through by this age. (And Connor still loves his sleep, almost 4 and still takes a 2-3 hour nap everyday.)

Did I mention the drool? We did not experience this with Connor! No teeth yet but could this be the start?

So, our boys are little opposites! Well, except for all the love they get! Happy 5 months Harris!

November???

These boys can't get enough of each other! If Harris cries, Connor comes running to help cheer him up! We got a popcorn maker and Connor thinks this is how you get every last kernel!

Grandma and Grandpa Gene came down from NY and we all had a very nice visit!

Sometimes the only way to get Harris to calm down is to give him to Connor

Harris turned 3 months on 11/7. Here's a flashback to Connor at that age. (This pic is of Harris)

What happened to October?

Minutes before we left for Harris' Christening on 10/18, I lost our media card - our ONLY media card. I'm pretty sure I dropped it in the trash. Funny because I did the same to my cell phone a few months after Connor was born. So, I had to ask others to share pictures and I didn't get all that I wanted...Here are a few:

We had a beautiful day on Strubble Trail. Can't get enough of that place in the fall.

We took the train into Phila with our good buddy Colin to see a Disney exhibit. Tons of cute pics of Connor & Colin (holding hands,hugging!) but I haven't had a chance to ask Colin's mama if I can post them yet. She has been a little busy lately!

Baby Bob BOO! showed up on Halloween....Along with Super Why and his Super Readers!

OCNJ 2009

Well, we've been back from OC for almost a month now so it's about time I posted pics! We had a great time with the family. For the first 2 days, Memom & Dada, their 4 children & their spouses and the 4.5 grandkids were all there together. (4.5 grandkids because one is still being baked!) Connor and Jake spent almost every second they were in the house together doing something like this:

Harris spent his beach time sleeping - sometimes in a tent sometimes being held.

Once Connor got in the water, he never wanted to leave! Our little fish!

This picture is just for fun! Some grown up Cianciulli boys sharing a bathroom!

More beach!

Connor and Jake watched snuggled up with a movie on our first night at the beach.

Lots of yellow in this picture:

The knucklehead and Uncle Turt

Uncle Christopher figured out pretty quickly that Baby Bob Harris stops crying when he can be belly-to-belly!

Ocean City here we come...

Ocean City is one of our favorite places to go as a family. Click 2007 and 2008 to see pics from past years. The Howe Family trip this year has been canceled since we will all be going away for Beky's wedding. The Cianciulli Family has decided to all go to OC together this year and we can't wait for all of the memories we will make with Memom and Dada! In the meantime, Mike got a few free nights at the Borgata in AC, so we decided to stay in AC and spend our days in OC! We had a wonderful time!

Connor and I both showed off our bellies to the Atlantic! That pink shirt no longer fits over my belly! Connor's shirt still fits despite claiming to have five babies in his belly! This picture was taken at 29 wks pg.

Here's Connor having some fun in the hotel. I think next time we will try to get a suite...Connor's naptimes were not easy when we were all in the same room. We obviously did not wear him out as much as we did in Disney!

Connor & Mike went on rides in Wonderland. When we go with the family, I'll be able to ride also! Mike will have to sit-out with the new baby!

Boardwalk fun!

Connor was really into the ATVs on the boardwalk & a nice policeman offered to let Connor sit on the ATV. At first Connor said 'no, thank you' but then he couldn't resist any longer!


We've got a few favorites on the boardwalk (not to mention the food!). One of our favorites is the helicopter w/ 2 gorillas singing great beach songs! Here's the boys watching the gorillas! Sometimes we dance, too!

A very nice man offered to take our picture. Connor didn't seem to like this - I think he was wondering why a stranger was allowed to touch his Mama's camera!

There are always characters on the boardwalk! This time we saw Mr. Peanut, Shriver's Taffy, and the Stewart's Bear.

'What those seagulls doing?'

One of the most exciting parts of our beach trip was watching seagulls eat something other than french fries! We didn't see this one take the crab from the water but we watched him fly with it and drop it up by the boardwalk. The crab started digging into the sand so the seagul flipped it over so it couldn't escape.

We went up pretty close to the crab and the seagulls yelled at us to back off!

Connor loved watching the seagulls as they stood guard over the crab.

Finally the seagulls were brave enough to go back over to the crab. Our best guess is that they waited for the little claws to stop grabbing. Doesn't it look like the the seagulls are discussing their lunch!?

After watching the seagulls with their lunch, Connor decided it was his mission to make sure no seagulls were on the boardwalk for the rest of the weekend!