We got Penny at 5 mos., also, and she wasn't trained in the least bit. For us, it was a waiting game outside. We would walk her up and down the block until she went, praising and treating her immediately, and eventually she figured it out. We made going outside sound like something fun by raising the pitch of our voices when we let her out of the crate and getting all excited ourselves about the idea.
It sounds like you are on the same schedule we were. It just takes time and patience. Your baby spent 5 mos. in a kennel, and it's going to take awhile for him to get used to the idea that his new life involves time out of the kennel.
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