Growing Grays: Our wonderful 4 year old!

We are so blessed to have such a beautiful, gentle, funny, caring, helpful, 4-year old son like Miles. Where has the time gone? We spent the day of his birth looking at pictures of him in the hospital on his original birthday - remembering what a life changing joy he brought to us that day. Fast forward four years and I still love to cuddle him, admire his wonderful head of hair and he makes me smile each and every day. So a lot has changed in four years but a lot has stayed the same.

We celebrated July 11 with special treats (he chose mini bags of Keebler cookies) to share with Daren and Hadley and for dinner we had pizza at Old Chicago. Since it was his special day he got a huge ice cream sundae (so did his little sister) and we sang to him to mark the occasion. The next weekend we had my family over for a Jake and the Neverland Pirates themed party. We had pirate tattoos, a pinata and splashed in the kiddie pool before eating watermelon, carrots and grilled brats and hotdogs - Miles' picks. The best part, in Miles' opinion, was the Jake cake and ice cream.

For his birthday he got: money for his savings account, a treasure box, a fishing pole, t-shirts, Lite Bright, a coloring book, a Jake boat, a bouncy ball you can sit on, tractors, a puzzle, and we gave him a Razr scooter (which he's obsessed with and rides up and down the hall and around the couch everyday).

At his 4-year check-up he was very healthy, and although shy when asked to recite the ABCs, hop on one foot, etc. he giggled throughout the exam - he's so ticklish! Here are his stats:

Height: 40.5 inches (56%)
Weight: 35.8 lbs (50%)

At 4, Miles loves:

collecting treasures
riding bikes
helping with projects
baking
Jake
husky pup
his whole posse of stuffed friends (3 dogs, 2 bears, and a Jake doll)
playing with his cousins
reading books
pizza
cake
all desserts
Costco samples
telling jokes
fishing
being with his family

This face is priceless - here Hads thought that we were singing to her and the cake Mike was bringing over was for her. There were tears one second later when the cake was placed in front of Miles. It's hard being two!