Keyes to Happiness: Blessings

I feel so truly blessed this Christmas season and thank God for all he has given unto me! I just want to highlight a few things that have been going on lately around the Keyes' house...

Miles realized that he has a gap between his front teeth and told me he thought he would be getting another tooth to fill that hole. He didn't quite get the Keyes' Gap theory....
Hailey likes to blink at me. She'll blink and blink until I realize what she's doing and blink back at her. Then she'll smile and blink at me and back and forth it goes. I think it's her way of telling me she loves me. :)
Hailey is now waving bye-bye and sometimes hello too. It's too precious!
Miles was talking to me one day about how much he loves Hailey's cheeks. From the time she came home from the hospital, he's been grabbing her cheeks. He just says they are so so so soft and he loves them. I think it's cute. It drives Ahmad crazy!
Hailey is also trying to blow kisses. She's got the hand to her mouth part, but the "maaa!" part is lacking. She just puts her hand to her mouth and smiles.
Hailey is also playing peek-a-boo. If you say "Where's Hailey, peek-a-boo!", she'll bring her hand/s to her eyes and hide from you. After several repetitions, her hands don't always make it over her eyes, but it's so cute how she laughs and giggles through this.
Miles has been having several rough days at school again and we had to remove the majority of his toys, movies, music, etc until further notice. Luckily, he did do better towards the end of the week and was able to get a few things back. He was also lucky that Santa came! He's since had a wonderful few days at home and I'm really excited to have this next week at home with him and Hailey.
Hailey is walking walking! She's not all the time, but I won't be surprised if she is soon. She's taken steps here and there and would go 2-3 feet at a time. Yesterday, on Christmas, she got some confidence and began doing laps between Ahmad and me, about 7-8 feet at a time. She shrieked and giggled the whole time, so proud of herself! She hasn't stopped since!
Miles was in the Christmas Pageant at Christmas Eve Mass and was a great shepherd! Much better at this performance than his school program!
Hailey is now starting to throw tantrums if she doesn't get what she wants. I can't believe she's old enough to be doing this and hate that we have to start almost disciplining her! She's still my little baby! However, I will say she's pretty good at them!
Hailey is also signing more now, which is so much fun. She's signing Eat, More, Milk and All Done on a fairly regular basis.
I know I've commented on this before, but Miles is such a little boy now. He's into his superheroes and bad guys and running and jumping. He's definitely all boy! However, he has such a sensitive side and still loves to snuggle and gives hugs and kisses to us all. He really is such a sweetpea!

Here are a few (I know, I have a bad definition of a few!) of my favorite shots from the last week or so...