Miles turns 6!

Yes SIX -- our little one is already six years old. It's striking to reflect on the differences between Miles at 6 and Damion at 6, they are night and day. But in the end, I'm thankful we've had such a broad experience with our boys. Miles has been such a curious little guy -- incredibly creative and yet brilliant with numbers and analysis. He has always been adaptive as well, being a great little brother to Damion. Our boys have a true bond and it's a joy to see.

So as most of you know, I'm a day late on this post -- Miles' birthday was yesterday. And since we had both work and school, it was actually a continuation of his initial birthday event, the Saturday visit to Statue of Liberty (see prior blog post). So after work yesterday, we opened gifts:




Cute isn't he?? :-)


The Tiger-Like-Thing wrapped around his head is a really cute and warm hat that Aunt Betsy brought back for Miles from Korea. It is awesome!


BTW, quick apology -- we suffer from severe "red-eye" with the pictures taken in our place. I use iPhoto's editing capabilities to attempt to remove it, but sometimes it doesn't work so well. It's particularly unfortunate when editing pictures of Miles because his amazing blue eyes never show up as good in pictures as they should. Anyways, onward!



The boys are slowly accumulating little music-making nicknacks like this xylophone. Add to this various percussive objects, harmonicas, the keyboard, piano, guitars, and Guitar Hero, and we have no shortage of music in this house. Which reminds me -- we have identified the "short-list" of piano teachers for the boys and should close on a teacher within the next couple of weeks. It's nice having Julliard so close!




Yes, Miles' favorite lunch is PB&J!

After gifts, we went to dinner at Miles' favorite type of dinner place, a Japanese Grill. The type of place where they cook the food right in front of you on massive grills and typically throw knives and other instruments around while doing it. Unfortunately we don't have any pictures of this, but it was a great experience.

We came home and had a great carrot cake -- Miles' favorite type.


The cake was great, and we built Bionicles the rest of the night.

Happy Birthday Miles!