My Boy, Oh What A Boy

The boy is 16 today.

Apparently he’s surprised? Or happy? Or something. What?

That’s not his wine by the way.

I went through my archives to find some photos that are mature, thoughtful, and reflective.

And I couldn’t find any.

So instead, I am posting some photos from the last two weeks.

These are so representative of our lives with him. He’s totally irrepressible. And he’s funny. I’ll aim my camera and no one else will notice except for the boy and for some reason he wants to be constantly captured with his mouth open.

It seems that my camera knows it…I aimed it at the girl and it auto-focused on the boy instead.

Yesterday, the boy and I had a chat on Facebook. He had called and asked me to bring home some food. The word “junk” is always implied before the word “food” in these requests. I told him to make a cheese sandwich.

So here is a very typical conversation between us.

the boy: “hey”

Me: “hey, make yourself a sandwich pls.”

the boy: “haha ok”

Me: “Tell Kyle that I will be glad to bring him to the coach’s training this Sat. It’s at Sunderland first then I have to bring you guys to the church. He can come over and hang out later if he wants to swim and stuff.

the boy: “he already went to the first training”

Me: “oh. Don’t forget to start on your AP Spanish stuff too. I’ll help you finish your government stuff tonight so that will be out of the way.”

the boy: “ok i will”

Me: “smooch”

the boy: “gross”

Me: “kisses”

Happy birthday my big boy. We love you!