Saturday, May 30, 2026

Happy Birthday to Graham! (May 22)

Wow, I can't believe I have a 16 year old in the house now.  I feel so old all of a sudden!!

And this is what I'm dealing with right now - teenage testosterones.  LOL!!
Daddy managed to get some things off his wishlist at the last minute.  A cat shirt:
And funny enough - 3 more additional of the SAME shirt showed up within the next 2 days?! So I guess we can all each have one now. LOL!

Also, some books, but we all know Graham doesn't like to read books.  He's really excited about these though:
Japanese Anime - Demon slayer?!  I have no idea what this kid is up to these days. Ha ha!
And more Japanese Anime items but in the form of plushies??
Graham actually bought these for himself:
And the big surprise for Graham was refurbishing his Great, Great Grandfather's old violin!
Graham's orchestra instructor had mentioned it more than once about getting an instrument that is slightly better than a regular student (starter) violin. And so, a golf student of mine actually recommended a place in Skokie.  I brought the old violin in and they were able to do some work to it, to get it to a fair sounding violin.  So happy we were able to do this!
I always feel like Graham could be just a little bit more precise with his fingers.  Nonetheless, just so happy he's decided to continue on with Orchestra at school 😍

For his birthday, we took Graham and one of his friends from school out to dinner and a movie:
Charlie wasn't around because he was on a Band road-trip in Wisconsin! And since we couldn't pick him up, Charlie was also going to have a sleep-over at a friend's.  So glad we have come to know some nice families!

Graham was not very keen on us singing Happy Birthday to him in the restaurant. LOL!
At least he did get some dessert :-)

Time for the movie!  He insisted on watching the new Mandalorian and Grogu movie on Opening Night:
Glad that Graham still doesn't mind hanging out with me and Bobby.  This kid hangs out so much in his "virtual world" of VR Goggles.  Who knows what this kid will get into next.  As long as he stays out of trouble and improve on his grades at school!! 

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