Miles is 5

Miles is 5, I can hardly believe it. He is so grown up now. I notice when I am hugging him that he really isn't a little boy anymore. He is all legs and arms and the padding is all gone. He is so intelligent. Sometimes it scares me a little. It makes me nervous I will put him in the wrong school. I want him to be challenged but not frustrated. At his current school he is doing great. I can tell his teacher really likes him. She has pulled me aside several times to tell me how well he is doing with French and just school in general. He is a great big brother, very protective of James. One day a boy, a kind of big one actually, pushed James on the playground. Miles marched right up to him and said 'don't push my little brother'. Of course, he reserves that right for himself as he has been known to push James now and then. Miles gets really interested in themes. During an Egyptian phase he begged me to stop at the museum on the way home from church to see the Egyptian stuff. At home he had posed one of his transformers to look like the sphinx. When I asked him what it was, he told me. I then asked how he knew what the sphinx was and he told me he knew about the sphinx and pyramids because we were going to Egypt someday. He is so funny, we just may go there someday but not anytime soon. Miles is still nervous about trying new things but he is getting better. He still doesn't like riding his bike or putting his head underwater. I try to be patient, after all, I was the same way. Happy birthday little buddy, stop growing up so fast!