At Elijah's six month appointment, these were his stats:

Height: 2 feet 5 inches (98%)

Weight: 22lbs. 3 oz. (96%)

Head Circumference: 18.82 in. (100%)

Matthew was calling him a monkey but I really didn't like that so we call him our chunky monkey. He is that to say the least. The doctor called him a tank. But we still love him, even if he is killing my arms. I wish lugging him around would eliminate the gut but instead the booty is disappearing. How come I can never get what I want? :)

October Fun

I love fall! I think the colors are beautiful and I think all the October festivities are fun. Eva and I had fun this year taking Matthew to the pumpkin patch with us for the first time. It has been nice having him around on the weekends. We also carved pumpkins and of course took our kiddos trick or treating. Eva has been looking forward to Halloween for a month now and I am glad she finally got it out of her system. She got it out so much so that she is a little scared now. The reason is that for our Ward activity we took her through the haunted spook alley and scared the poo out of her. I am still ashamed that we made her go through it. It was pretty scary. In fact, this morning when we got to the church parking lot she said that she didn't want to go inside the church because there were monsters inside. Poor thing. We told her there weren't and I can only hope she forgets about the episode real soon.