7 years!

Kyler is 7 years old today!  At this time 7 years ago, I'd been in the hospital for almost 24 hours and I was getting VERY anxious for Kyler to join us!  His delivery and my recovery after were very rough and are part of what led to me going the midwife/natural route the 2nd time around but despite the trouble with getting him into the world, I've been so blessed to be his mama!  I love this boy so much!

Kyler at 7 months old.  Can you believe this kid is 7 now?  Crazy!

Kyler at 7 - he's so very smart.  He loves school and he got the "Math Whiz" award for his class at their end-of-year awards assembly.  He reads way above his grade level and we found out this week that he was accepted to the GT (Gifted and Talented) program for next year at school. 

Showing off his A/B Honor Roll and Math Whiz certificates at his awards assembly

He's silly, imaginative and creative.  He LOVES to play with Melissa and they're always making up all kinds of new stories and games to play.  He also loves Caedon and can often be found acting goofy trying to make his brother laugh. 

This is my silly, creative boy.  He put his head upside down and frowned.  He said it would look like a smile that way :)

He's pretty quiet.  He doesn't talk alot (except about his current obsession, Pokemon) but he's always thinking.  He's "inside his head" so much that he often misses directions we give him, forgets what he just repeated back to us or starts to do something completely different that we just told him and then turns and looks at us quizzically and says, "What was I supposed to be doing?"  It can get really frustrating, but I'm learning to make a special point of making sure that he's really focusing on me when I give him instructions.

He loves playing video games and is really very very good at them.  He's handsome, sweet and loving.  I'm so proud of him!  Happy birthday to you, Kyler!  I'm so happy that God picked me to be your mom!

Oh, he's a handsome little man, isn't he?  Just love him!