Oct. 16th

We'll I've come to terms that I won't recover the last post, which is SUPER annoying to me.
Miles is loving preschool. Tuesday evening we had a moms' night out with the moms in his class. It was so much fun to get to know some of them. I knew about 3 or 4 moms already. Anyways, when we got there we were going around introducing ourselves and telling who our child is, etc.. and one mom said, "wait, who is miles' mom" - I was hoping this wouldn't be an embarrassing story! She said that her daughter, Riley, has a baby at home and named Miles! She thinks Riley has her first crush on Miles. It was too funny - I've got to see this little girl! Then a few other moms said that their kids talk about Miles all the time and how cute he is. Come to find out, there are only about 6 boys in the class and almost 10 girls, so it makes sense! Miles is trying to learn our phone number, which is hard since Dallas is 10-digit dialing! Oh well, we'll get there. He is becoming more interested in games and loves Hi! Ho! Cherry-o! which is fun. I think he'll be getting a few more for Christmas.
Halloween is in full force here! Miles is going to be a fireman and decided that long ago. His costume came in the mail a few weeks ago and he wears it all the time. He will put the whole thing on and ride his tractor down the sidewalk to the fire hydrant... forgot to mention that he has an inflatable fire extinguisher, so he likes to "fill it up" at the hydrant. Miles really wanted Elaine to be a fireman dog (Dalmatian) so I finally found a cute one at Pottery Barn. The others I saw seemed a tad bit tacky so Elaine was almost a ballerina, but thankfully we found one. I even downloaded some instructions on how to make a costume, which would have been scary.
Elaine is doing fantastic! She is 3 1/2 months and soooo happy - we are so blessed with such happy and relaxed babies! Elaine really hardly cries, except when bath time is over. She loves water so much! She also LOVES to watch Miles. Whenever she is in the car she stares at Miles the whole time, which he often looks at her and sticks out his tongue or does something very big brother-like - charming... No, he is really sweet to her and tells her he loves her and kisses her. He loves for her to lie in his bed next to him during story time before his nap if she is awake. His favorite book as of now, Thursday, is "we're going on a bear hunt" thanks to GaGa!!