Carter's 9th Birthday!

Carter is my quiet thinker.  He loves to do puzzles and build with legos, so much so that Ben always has him do his lego building for him.  He is also very kind hearted and tries to look out for his little sisters and brother. 

He is also becoming a good piano player.  He loves to try and play his pieces of music as fast has he can without mistakes.  It is fun to watch his fingers fly across the keys with his head bopping to the beat all at top speed.

For his birthday this year, he decided to have chocolate cupcakes.  He helped me make them and then he put the sprinkles on and stacked them all by himself. 

We had Grandma Mary and Will and Jeannie over for our little family party.  Carter got a watch, a knife, legos, a book: "Summer of the Monkeys," a book filled with puzzles, two puzzles, and a snap circuit set.  Do we notice the puzzle theme here. 

Miles @ 3 Months

Miles personality shines through more and more everyday.  He loves to be talked to and will light up when ever anyone gives him the time of day.  He will smile and coo and almost laugh.  Sometimes he makes such loud noises trying to talk, he scares himself. 

He has gotten over a lot of his fussiness and is pretty easy going.  As long as I rotate him from bounce seat, to floor, to being held and talked to, to walking him around then he stays pretty happy.  Luckily by doing all of that I have been able to still get the kids through their school work everyday even with a newborn. 

I have been slowly taking Miles outside on the nicer days.  He is getting better about handling the wind blowing on him if it is just a gently breeze. 

He still spits up quit a bit, but not has bad as Ben and Carter did.  Miles is very chunky and we call him are little marshmallow because of all his squishy rolls.

He is sleeping long and longer at night.  Now he goes for a good 6 hours before needing to eat during the night. He likes to go to bed at 7 and get up around 530.  I don't mind the early bed time because it gives Isaiah and I time to hang out but I wish he would sleep till 600, so I am trying to move his bedtime closer to 8.

He is getting really good at using his hands.  He will grab stuff and trying to play with it.  He also loves to look at his and and wiggle his fingers.  It is like he is focusing really hard and making his hands do what he wants and figure them out.  It is interesting to see him so fascinated with his fingers.  I don't remember the other kids being that way.