Saturday's Surprises

Miles never ceases to amaze us. It has been a great week with him (challenging sometimes but wonderful, too).
Miles doesn't give his heart away freely like Will and I do, so I was suprised to hear him twice today use such tender comments about "new" folks in his life. Kristin Dutt is a girl I get to meet with weekly. She met us at the High School on Saturday where we ran a 5k (Jake and I). Kristin (we call her "Dutt") watched the boys, fed them their donut breakfast and made sure they were taken care of while we ran.

Jake finished around 29 minutes. I finished at around 35.5 34.23 (just checked the results and did better than I thought) and the boys did GREAT! Kristin has a way with them because when it was time for us to leave, Miles asked, "Can Dutt go with us"?

Then later, as we made Miles' birthday list he asked if he could include "Mr. Brett" - a college student who we've had the privilege to spend time with lately.

What great surprises to see Miles interested in the people that are so important to us (and that are not family).

Saturday's Surprises did not end there. When we got home, as we were getting things done around the house, I asked Miles to take our picture. He was EAGER to do it and did a great job. That led to him asking to take more so we put the strap on safely and with is little hands he walked out the door to do some photo composition. He came back in a few minutes later and we were blown away by his artistic eye!

Check out the photos that follow!