Happy Halloween

Here's some of the highlights of Silas's first Halloween.

Silas spent some time in Grammy and Papa's bucket of candy, where he tried to eat a sucker with the wrapper still on. (Notice Silas's AWESOME new shirt. It has Yoda on it)
On Friday we went to Michelle's for pizza before Boo at the Zoo. (He's a hot dog)

And then Saturday night Silas was a Pumpkin and we walked around with the cousins while they trick or treated. Silas didn't trick or treat at all because I think it's totally lame when people just use their kids to get candy.

Rice Cereal

Now that Silas is 4 months old we've been given the okay to start trying rice cereal. Very exciting. He seems to like it so far. Everyday he's getting better and able to keep a little more in his mouth.

Trip to Utah

This weekend we made a trip down to Utah for our friends Justin and Carrie Wood's baby shower. Part of the reason we drove all the way down there for just the baby shower was Eric wanted to go to Toucano's, his favorite place to eat because there's just TONS and TONS of meat. I'd never been there so I was pretty excited too. So we start heading down to Provo after the shower and call Toucano's to make a reservation and they tell us they can't fit us in for THREE HOURS. We were both really disappointed and ended up going to a wannabe Olive Garden that just wasn't that great. :( But we did get to see Carrie, Eric's sister. She went to dinner with us and got to see Silas for the first time in a few months. Kind of a disappointing trip because of stupid Toucano's but it's alright.

4 months!

(not his best picture, he's been in a bad mood) Today Silas had his 4 month check up today and his second set of shots. He did really well recovering from the shots in the doctors office but has been a pill the rest of the day. He is still a giant baby. When the doctor picked him up to hand him to me he said, "oh wow! he's a solid kid." So even though he's a very large kid he's doing great.

Here are the percentiles

weight: 18.1 lbs 95%

height: 26.5 inch 94%

head circ.: 17.5 inch 95%

Eric is very proud to have one monster of a baby. :)

So right now we are working on moving out of our apartment. The building is most likely being foreclosed on so we'd be kicked out in a couple of weeks anyways so we figured we'd just move out and save money on rent. So now we are going through the annoying process of packing up.

Eric's IBC group is getting ready to start selling their laptop skins tomorrow or the next day. Eric's still disappointed about what a lame idea it is and wants everyone to know it wasn't his idea and it wasn't his fault. But if by chance you are interested in a skin (a sticker for your laptop that protects it and makes you stylish) let us know. They're selling them for $10.

Eric's also playing softball still. They had their first close game ever last week. They didn't 10 run the team! But they still won.

I'm starting to craft. It's hard with Silas because he tends to want to be held whenever I'm working on something. When I finally finish one of my projects I'll be sure to post it so everyone can tell me how great it looks. :)

For Mark

Eric and Silas are constantly working on improving their circus tricks. Silas now LOVES it when Eric does this.

Straw Maze

(sorry it's sideways)
Last weekend we decided to go to one of the many straw mazes in the area. So we bundled up Silas and headed into the maze. What we didn't realize was it was a haunted straw maze! I am not a fan of being scared. I wont even watch previews for scary movies. So I ended up carrying a flashlight through the whole thing and it helped a TON! Over all it was a pretty fun half hour wandering around and a fun kick off to the Halloween season.