Miles Mislang is nearly 6 months old

I took photos of my sister's son Miles when he had just turned 4 months and I finally put them up on flickr this week. I loved processing them, looking at his precious face makes me want to hop on a flight back to California! Thank God my sister Cindy is getting married in May so I have a good excuse to come home and see him!

Miles and I do see each other still, but only on the computer. It is pretty cool actually, we started video chatting when he was only 2 months old and we do it about once ever week or so. In the beginning, he was like a little blob with eyes, he would occasionally stare at the screen or be attracted to my voice. Then things got more interesting when he finally started smiling!

For awhile, I could do whatever I wanted on the video. I could smoosh up really close to the lens and look all big and distorted and he would find this entertaining. Then when he was about 5 months old we began a chat and I held the camera close so my face was distorted, he took one long silent look at me and then erupted in tears! It was so funny, and sort of sad but I understood completely. He had grown up enough to know that my face wasn't normal. There was something definitely wrong with the picture. It frightened him but it amused me. From now on I'm making sure my face isn't distorted and since then he has not reacted with fear to watching me on the screen. This is a good thing.

So this week, we were chatting after I had not seen him in about two weeks (Europe trip and all). Lara had recently reported that he had started grasping out for her, pulling her hair, touching her face etc. His new favorite thing to do is take out his pacifier and put it back in all by himself. So cute.

So we're chatting and he is so lively, and he looks huge and adorable. I get him to smile with almost no effort too! Then he did the cutest thing. I started to mimic him when he leaned over on his side once and he noticed. Then he righted himself, looked at me, and I did it again... and so did he. It was great, we played our first game! Lara and I cracked up immediately and this of course only reassured him that he was doing something good! So we played like this for a few minutes, with him spontaneously leaning over and watching for me to follow. I loved it.

Lara and I got back to talking and then she'd start laughing again because he was trying to have her let him lean over again. I attempted to get him to try and lean the other way but he just kept on going the same way! I'm looking forward to more fun games on the computer.

I hope this means that I'm still familiar to him when I do come home in a month.