17 years ago…..

Alex’s birthday was on Sunday and he turned that magical age of 17. Magical at least for a teenage boy, but maybe not quite so much for the parents. 🙂 We had a big dinner (steaks and shrimp) and a Keylime Pie (his request) for his birthday party. Also on Friday, Mom took in cookies to hand out to his friends at school during lunch. One of his friends, once he found out, jumped up and yelled it was Alex’s birthday and got everyone to sing Happy Birthday to him – much to his embarrassment of course. Apparently a couple of girls even asked him to the Homecoming dance in January – shockingly he said yes to Virginia. Seems a little early to start planning for January, but it’s a small pond and you have to make plans early. We were thrilled he said yes as this will be his first real date.
For his birthday present, Alex got to go to the Elon Soccer camp last month in Greensboro – including t-shirt and soccer ball. Sam’s birthday present was his scuba diving classes, which ended up costing quite a bit more than expected. So since we always even out the presents, Alex ended up with a couple of packages to unwrap on Sunday as well – a new soccer bag… designed to look the Tardis from Dr. Who and a new pair of headphones…. his last pair broke about a month after the warranty ended. Sunday was really his last day of summer, so we hope he enjoyed it as school started in earnest on Monday – he even received his first school assignment that is due on Wednesday.