Look Who Had a Birthday!

Guess who turned 3 yesterday? Yep- it's Miles! We had a fun day celebrating with him. His day started with a fun time in nursery. He brought mini cupcakes to share. After nursery he took a nap then went for a backpack ride with Dan. Then it was party time! We had a big crowd for dinner- us, Parley and Bona, Amy and Sean, my parents and Aly's kids. We had rice, broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots, green salad, and some type of fish... most adults had salmon while the kids had fish sticks (most of the kids had cooked fish sticks, but the birthday boy had his straight from the freezer). For dessert we had "bee bug" cupcakes. Miles currently adores bees (and most other insects and creepy crawlies) so I made him bee cupcakes. He thought the lit candles were pretty cool. He still hasn't learned to "blow" so his daddy helped him out! He loved the sugar bees, but that was about it.He got a fireman hat from my parents for his birthday and we had to sing the "hat song" from KOTM playgroups about 97 times before he was ready to move on. He also got a Mickey Mouse towel, a Thomas the Tank Engine Duplo set, and "Mack" from Cars. He was so excited about Mack that he put the truck in the bath with him. At bedtime he had to gather up all his new treasures and all the balloons and sleep with them. He was worn out and slept soundly last night and I had to wake him up to go to his 3 year old check-up.

By the way, my smallest baby is now my biggest! Miles weighs more than his brothers did at 3 years old- with jeans and a shirt on, he weighed 30.4 pounds (J was 30# even and Nols was 29# 14 oz). He and Jonathan were the same height- 37.25" while Nolan was the peanut at 36.5". The pediatrician wasn't overly concerned about Miles' delays and actually seemed surprised that I had him involved with KOTM. He's supportive of our early intervention plan. Actually, he was most concerned about Miles vision- he noticed that Miles likes to get really close-up to the book he is reading and has suggested that we take Miles to get his vision checked.

Also, check out my spud, Nolan!