Confessions

Hello. My name is Matthew and I can't stop lining up and organizing things. I just can't help myself. No matter the object(s) I want to make them neat and orderly. Mom got a huge bag of Halloween candy last week and I have lined them up several times. Sometimes I say I'm having a candy party.Other times I line up my letters into one really long word and then try to pronounce it. I get angry when Will scoots over to them and then puts them in his mouth. I tell him to stop. I also don't like it when Moses bats them around all over the place, especially when they go up under the refrigerator. I tell him to stop it, too.Today while Mommy was taking her turn on the computer (she says we have to share it) I took all the pumpkins and candles I could find, along with the candy and decorated. I finished and said, "I'm all done decorating, Mommy."That boy is funny. I love what he entertains himself with. Yesterday I picked up Matt from school and we got in the car to come home. He requested we listen to the beach music on the way home and I of course obliged. I turned down the music at one point so I could talk to him:
Me: "Matthew, how was school today?"
Matt: "It was good."
Me: "What did you do today?"
Matt: "I played. And I went to chapel."
Me: "What did you do in chapel?"
Matt: "I watched a video."
Me: "What was the video about?"
Matt: "Friends put others first. Can you turn the music back up now?"Hilarious. Just like his father. I took the kids to the pumpkin patch on Saturday so we could pick out a pumpkin to carve, and because I knew how much Matt loved running around that place. And run he did. I had to threaten to take away all his candy at home to get him to leave finally. He didn't appreciate that. At least it worked. Matt did a good job holding his brother and showing him all the pumpkins. I know Will enjoyed himself too. He kept grabbing handfulls of hay and shoving them in his mouth. Mmm.Will had his 9 month check up today. He's 14 lb., 12 oz. and 24.5 inches. Still off the charts, but Dr. Brown was very pleased with his weight and thinks he's doing great. He clapped for her and babbled a lot and tried to show off all his tricks. He did a great job. And Matthew was a patient big brother today. He did well sitting in the Dr.'s office with me. We are gearing up for Halloween and the season of many, many birthdays to be celebrated. I love this time of year!!!