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My first born turned 13 this week.  We now have a teenager in the house!  What a fun stage of parenting!  We get the best of both worlds right now.  Toddlers all the way up to teenagers.  
We  invited a pile of boys 8 years and up  to play ball on his birthday.  Every one we invited came! 
There were several boys missing from this picture.  Oh but they had so much fun.  
We played two short games and they were all good sports about the score,.  Such good fun kids!  
Gone are the days of cakes in the shape of fire engines.  Now he just wants chocolate cake and blows the candles because he was being kind to his mom.

His voice is deep.  He looks down at me when we're standing beside each other.  He goes through food and clothes like nobody's business.  He keeps the yard and garden and animals cared for nicely. And of course  he dreams about hunting, and fishing, and the next ball game and who plays for the Huskers and  all the technical facts about every sport every where.  And I roll my eyes and ask him how that gives him life skills.  I should tell him that I'm secretly pretty happy that he's a typical boy and if he just keeps his interests right there for the next 7 years or so that'll be good! :)
   His best quality by far is his honesty with life.  He's not sensitive conscience honest.  He's just a regular kid who hates secrecy.  I love that.  Now if I can just get him to care about  details and excellence in the school work I will feel like we've accomplished things! :) 

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