And just like that he's 5!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILES!!! What a great birthday week for our 5 year old. Miles got to celebrate his birthday 3 times this week and it ended with his big birthday party with all his little buddies. It was a great success and somehow all of the kids behaved and did so well. I cannot believe my baby boy is 5. FIVE!!! Where does the time go?!?

Happy birthday Miles!!

Cheeeeeeese!

  

Playing parachute games

Bowling

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Miles & his buddy Charley from school

Cake time!

Lots of fun in the gym with the parachute.

Making a dome for the kids to sit under - Miles said this was his favorite part.

Our little runner.

Miles ran his first official race! Our kids talk about running a lot. It's fun to see them pretending to run "marathons" around our basement, and how excited Miles was when we asked him if he wanted to sign up for a race. It was cold and windy, but we got him to the start line at the Lake Harriet Bandshell, and he did it. Tim got him his first pair of running shoes, and they came in the mail that week. He was so excited to try them out. He ran the whole .4 mile and was so proud to cross that finish line. Tim stayed with him the whole time (hey we are new with this?!?!) I had no idea what to expect, and it seemed strange to just send him off on his own. He is still my baby you know. I hope our kids grow up to be runners. I started running 2 years ago and it is so hard starting in your 30's but hey, you got to start somewhere right?

Easter

The Easter bunny came and brought all kinds of goodies for the kids. And thankfully no sugar treats...well besides a few tiny chocolate eggs. The kids enjoyed finding their Easter baskets stuffed with sidewalk chalk, gardening gloves and tools, new water bottles, and a fun shirt for Miles and sparkly gold shoes for Evie (she loves her shoes). We had fun watching them go through their baskets, and then we headed to Grandma & Grandpa Vedder's house for the annual egg hunt and large Easter lunch. It was fun for the kids to catch up with their cousins and play and play and play. We celebrated Miles' 5th birthday with them and the Despicable Me 2 cake he has been wanting for about 9 months (seriously, every single time we went to Target he would want to go see it and would declare that that was the cake he would have for his 5th birthday). He was spoiled with all kinds of fun birthday presents and got his very own Sonicare toothbrush for kids. He truly is growing up on us! Sniff sniff.