Happily Ever After (and our adventures along the way): Miles Turns 4!

Its true... our first little 'baby' turned four last month! I absolutely cannot believe it. Everyone tells me constantly how quickly time flies by, and it is so true. It really seems like yesterday that we were bringing Miles home from the hospital and trying to figure life out with a new baby. Fast forward (because thats how quickly it seems like it has been going) and we now have a handsome, caring, loving smart four year old boy.

Miles is amazing. He is reading short books all by himself (he only gets hung up on words where the 'C' sounds like an 'S' and some of the other silly rules that make English difficult). He loves to 'draw' plans for things, like how to build a barn out of legos for his farm animals, and write directions for making a cake. He loves to make crafts for people; almost daily daddy and I are given beautiful pieces of art work. He is always thinking of others, and he loves to make crafts to give to his grandmas and his papa. Tuesdays and Thursdays are his school days, and Thursdays are his favorite because after school he gets to go to Great-Grandma Jill's house after school until Daddy picks him up. G-Gma Jill loves on him and of course spoils him rotten. I love this little boy so very much, and I cannot wait to see what God has in store for his future.

The week of his birthday, our friends, Scot and Dana called and asked if they could take Miles out for a special afternoon to celebrate his birthday. They picked him up and took him for pizza and then out to Cold Stone for ice cream. Below are a few pictures that Dana sent me.

Dana said the lady at Cold Stone was so impressed with how polite Miles was that she gave him his ice cream for free!!!

Here are Miles and Uncle Scot

We asked Miles what he wanted to do for his birthday, and he said he wanted to have a party with a jumping castle and invite his friends over. The jumping castle unfortunately didn't work out because our backyard just isn't big enough for it. But he had some of his very best buddies over, we made ice cream sundaes and of course had some snacks and birthday cake. The kids played together and had a fabulous time.

Heres the birthday boy waiting for his friends to come over!

Of course he had to show off his new 'ride'... Here he is driving his friend Samson, Owen, and Max around the neighborhood.

Here are his friends Samson (left) and Owen (right). Miles and Owen are BFFs from school and Samson is one of his friends he has known the longest. His mommy and I met at storytime when the boys were less than a year old!

Owen's sweet family is almost parallel to ours. Owen and Miles are a month apart in age...then Max and their middle son, Caleb are two months apart, and in the picture below you'll see Mason and Micah. Micah is just a week older than Mace. Twins, much?!?!