Miller: 7 year old interview

1. Nicknames? M, Mil-Mil, Chubbs

2. How old are you? 7

3. What is your favorite color? green

4. What is your favorite animal? jaguar

5. What is your favorite book? Wingfeather Saga, Little Pilgrim's Progress

6. What is your favorite TV show? Dude Perfect

7. What is your favorite song? My Gods Not Dead 

8. What is your favorite food? some kind of mac and cheese

9. What is your favorite drink? chai

10. What is your favorite breakfast food? bread

11. What is your favorite snack? crackers

12. What is your favorite outfit? pajamas

13. What is your favorite game? Monopoly

14. What is your favorite toy? stuffed animals

15. What is your favorite thing to do? play football

16. What is your favorite thing to do outside? play football

17. What are you really good at? football

18. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? all my stuffed animals

19. Where is your favorite place to go? the beach 

20. What is your favorite restaurant? Pizza Inn

21. What do you like to do with your family? play games

22. What is a place you would like to visit? the beach

23. What makes you laugh? Daddy

24. What do you like to learn about? Jacksonville Jaguars

25. What do you want to be when you grow up? NFL football player

Miller: 7 years old

I can not believe Miller is 7! 

He is 44 pounds. He can still wear size 5 clothes, but also 6-7. He wears a size 13 shoe. 

He loses teeth all the time! 

So much of what was true when he was 2 years old, is still true now! He still looooooves dogs, loves playing with fish, loves to snuggle, loves things in small form!

He can get completely lost in games with Bowen. They have 3 different "games" they play together and they just play for hours and hours. One is with "little legos", one is with picasso tiles and little animals, and one is with their stuffed animals that they call "neighborhood". 

He plays outside all the time. He loves to catch insects or lizards or frogs. He loves to play basketball and football, and almost always plays with kids twice his size. He holds his own! He also gets sooo dirty. I have to rinse the tub or shower out bc there is usually a ring of dirt when he gets out. 

He could care less about reading himself, but loves to be read to and loves his Yoto player. 

He is still a big Jaguars/Trevor Lawrence fan. 

He took his first plane ride at 6.5 and flew out west. We hiked Zion, Bryce and the Grand Canyon and he rocked it. He did so great, and we did some big hikes! I was so proud of his lack of complaining and not asking to be on shoulders! Navajo Loop, Buckskin Gulch slot canyons, Scout Lookout, and the Narrows in very cold water!  

He wants a dog soooo bad! He loves other peoples dogs!

He makes us laugh, sometimes makes us crazy, and we can't imagine life without him. What a gift he is!

Bowen: 9 year old interview

1. Nicknames? Bo, B

2. How old are you? 9

3. What is your favorite color? orange and purple

4. What is your favorite animal? tiger

5. What is your favorite book? Wingfeather Saga

6. What is your favorite TV show? Dude Perfect

7. What is your favorite song? His Mercy is More

8. What is your favorite food? chicken Alfredo

9. What is your favorite drink? water

10. What is your favorite breakfast food? fried eggs

11. What is your favorite snack? Chomps stick 

12. What is your favorite outfit? basketball clothes

13. What is your favorite game? Pandemic and Monopoly Deal

14. What is your favorite toy? my new lawn mower

15. What is your favorite thing to do? play outside

16. What is your favorite thing to do outside? play basketball

17. What are you really good at? running fast

18. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Reggie and Ollie

19. Where is your favorite place to go? the Grounds 

20. What is your favorite restaurant? Magic Sushi

21. What do you like to do with your family? explore

22. What is a place you would like to visit? Liberty Hill

23. What makes you laugh? Miller

24. What do you like to learn about? math

25. What do you want to be when you grow up? football player

Bowen: 9 years old

Our middle boy is 9!

Bowen is 58 pounds and 4 foot 3 inches (28th percentile for both). 

He took his first plane ride this year! We went to Utah and visited 3 national parks and hiked lots! He loved it and did great!

He loves to lift weights and check out his arm muscles in the mirror :) 

He is our little worker. Loves to have a job... especially yard work!

He's a hard worker, but our messiest, disorganized, irresponsible child. Just throws his stuff wherever, leaves drawers open, leaves a trail wherever he goes. 

We've had some police things lately going on around us and they definitely bring our extra fear and anxiety in him. He's already anxious about sirens and police, and these events haven't helped. 

He's come a long way this year in reading and behavior. He's def still behind, but making great progress. And we are working on some basic vision therapy tools that I think are helping. 

He took his first plane ride at 8.5 and flew out west. We hiked Zion, Bryce and the Grand Canyon and he rocked it. He did so great, and we did some big hikes!

He loves anything that matches Chad or times he gets to be with Chad. He wants to be just like him and hopes he passes his Toyota Corolla to him as his first car. 

We think his current thing is basketball shoes. He seems to have a thing for collecting them. 

He still says some funny things... Giesel for diesel gas, and if he wants a mint, he asks if he can have a "breath freshener". 

We are so thankful for our Bo!

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Miller: 6 years old

Our baby is SIX! Six feels like such a shift for me from little boy to bigger kid. Miller is still very much the baby in so many ways. 

He is about 40 pounds, wears 5t clothes, and has grown so much this last year!

He lost his first tooth at Nana and Papa's house about 2 months ago. He was reallllllllly hoping it would come out when Nana would be the tooth fairy. 

He still loves his people fiercely. He has certain people he just attaches himself to, and those people better watch out for an aggressive love (Lake, Josiah, K-Bob, Selah, Brady, his grandparents, Chester, baby Logan... to name a few current attachments)  

A phrase I'm using constantly with him right now is "no means no". You don't have to keep asking multiple times!

About once a day he still uses a phrase something like "I think we need to get some snuggles in". And at night as we put him to bed "Can you get in my bed? Like fully in?"

He still loves to be held (though that's getting harder). Birth order fascinates me because Grayson was never held at 5 or 6. 

He currently loves his 2 smallest stuffed animals (Tiny Reggie and Little Bucky), he loves anything in small "baby" form, to ride his bike, playing outside, playing football, listening to his yoto

Life with Miller is never dull! He keeps us laughing and on our toes. He is a JOY to us!

Miller: 6 year old interview

1. Nicknames? M, Mil-Mil, Chubbs

2. How old are you? 6

3. What is your favorite color? green

4. What is your favorite animal? Chester and Samson

5. What is your favorite book? My Lucky Day

6. What is your favorite TV show? Ice Age

7. What is your favorite song? His Mercy is More

8. What is your favorite food? baked beans

9. What is your favorite drink? water

10. What is your favorite breakfast food? cereal

11. What is your favorite snack? muffins and Munchies

12. What is your favorite outfit? basketball clothes

13. What is your favorite game? Wild Kratts board game

14. What is your favorite toy? my bike

15. What is your favorite thing to do? play football

16. What is your favorite thing to do outside? play football

17. What are you really good at? football

18. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Bucky and tiny Reggie

19. Where is your favorite place to go? the beach 

20. What is your favorite restaurant? Dragon Court

21. What do you like to do with your family? go fishing

22. What is a place you would like to visit? the zoo 

23. What makes you laugh? nothing

24. What do you like to learn about? to read

25. What do you want to be when you grow up? a runningback 

Bowen: 8 years old

Bowen is 8!

He is about 49 pounds, 4 feet 1 in tall,  and wears all size 7 clothes. He's the boniest kid!

He loves to play football. 

He loves to do things with Chad and get special time with him. 

He hates to hear sirens and if he's playing outside, he will run inside. 

He graduated speech therapy this past year. woohoo!

He loves collecting sports cards (mostly football) and they will sit and organize and trade for hours. 

He still loves babies and little kids. 

We are so glad he is ours!