Six Months Old!!

Jonathon has reached the big six months and he is growing up way too fast. Growing up is all he is doing though, he is actually a little guy. He weighed in at 14 pounds and 26 inches. I have always seen other kids his age and knew he was small but I didn't know he was only in the 7th percentile for his weight. That is alright though, he is healthy and beautiful. He checked out perfect and so adorable. Jonathon is so happy and is hitting so many milestones like eating lots of baby food, sitting up without any help, pulling himself to a standing, moving around on his belly and the most recent is waving. I kept trying to get him to do it and I turned around at the grocery store for one second to find him waving to some stranger. I almost cried he looked so darn cute. Anything within reach is fair game to him and it will automatically go into his mouth. He is really enjoying all the lights and colors of Christmas and is looking forward to some sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving.

Spooktacular Balloon Festival

Thanks to a friend I heard of Groupon.com and when I signed up I got a $15 credit. When I saw a balloon festival I thought it would be great. I got the whole family in for $5 and I saved $55 with all the savings. They had a bunch of booths for people to go shopping at and for the kids to trick or treat at. It was great to see the businesses having fun with the kids and seeing all the costumes. The two that we really loved was the first was the ghost from Nightmare before Christmas (I think)...well put together though.

The other one was a headless bride with her head coming out of her stomach. Wish I would have gotten a picture because it was a great costume.

They had all kinds of balloons there: Spiderman pig, bees, butterfly, clown, scary house and many more. I had a lot of trouble getting pictures to really come out because of the lack of lighting but it was great practice for me. Nothing a little Photoshop can't fix right? If you have never seen a hot air balloon get filled up, you got to. It takes a whole team to do this and it was neat to see. The balloons are so big and beautiful, I was like a kid in a candy store. The kids had a blast and enjoyed just being able to run around like a bunch of monkeys.

Happy Halloween

The kids are still buzzing from the sugar high this morning, but they can't stop talking about how cool and awesome trick or treating was. Benjamin was a great Spiderman, Matthew was a fierce Batman and Jonathon was a happy little puppy. The boys were of course thrilled to go with their cousins Anna who was Raggedy Anne and Andrew who was a cute little cowboy. They all did great and weren't too scared of any of the decorations or costumes. None of them even fell asleep and got a lot of goodies and I don't think any tricks. After every door Benjamin would announce to Bill "no tricks Dad." It was just too cute, what a bunch of troopers.