Miles at Age 13

To read about Miles at age 12, click here.

He's officially a teenager (!), which means he gets a new set of questions this year!

1. Describe yourself.  "Funny.  And quirky."  

2. What are you thankful for?  "I'm thankful for my family, shelter, food that we have, education that we can get..."  

3. What makes you happy?  "Cats, Rubik's cubes, Breath of the Wild {Zelda game}, taekwondo, percussion, and my friends."  

4. What makes you sad or angry?  "Probably when I'm focused on one task and someone else tries to get me to do something, and it frustrates me that I can't focus on the task that I'm doing at the moment.  It's annoying."  

5. What do you want to be when you grow up?  "Most likely a percussionist."  

6. What's important to you?  "Friendship, music, video games, family."  

7. What do you love most about yourself?  "That I'm not afraid to be myself.  And that I'm more responsible than most kids."  

8. What do you love most about your mom?  "She's very tough, and she can survive anything."  

9. What do you love most about your dad?  "Hes very funny and he's always comforting.  And he makes really good dinner."  

10. If you could go anywhere, where would you want to go?  "Probably Universal Studios cause I want to see the Hagrid's bike ride."  

11. Who do you admire, and why?  "I admire you {Mom} because you're very tough, I admire Dad because he's a good role model and a good cooker, and I admire my sister cause she's a good role model."  

12. What do you want to learn more about?  "I wanna learn more percussion.  I wanna learn more glitches in Breath of the Wild."  

13. What's something you'd like to do to help someone else?  "Small things like opening the door for someone, start with that..."  

14. What are you afraid of?  "Hmm.  Small spaces, falling from heights, drowning, stuff like that."  

15. If you could only keep one thing, what would you keep?  "Family."  

16. What's your favorite memory?  "Probably either Orlando while we there or when we were at the breakfast place getting something and you told us about the trip and we started getting excited.  Also, when you come out of the hospital that's always nice."  

17. What are you proud of yourself for?  "For having discipline, being respectful of people, good citizenship, yeah."  

18. What are you looking forward to?  "Percussion in high school, percussion next year, going to taekwondo."  

19. What do you dream about?  "I don't remember what I dream about."  

20. What else do you want to say?  "Uh, I'm excited for my possible 13 gifts!"  

You are one incredible kid.  The world isn't prepared for what they have coming at them when you're let loose, bud.  You are so, so smart, so kind and thoughtful, and I thank God for you every day.  Happy birthday, Miles!