We officially have a 16 year old & a licensed driver in our house now! This seems so surreal. I'm not quite sure how it happened that Taylor can possibly be 16, but alas, he is!
He chose Chinese for dinner and his girlfriend, Emilee, ate with us and spent the evening with the family! Among the many presents he received, we gave him a 'Do's and Don'ts of Dating' book. As you can see in this first picture, he's pretty excited about that! :)
I decided it'd be a good idea for all the adults to give him a piece of advice for dating/being a more able teenager. Things ranged from: date lots of girls so you can find the right one to marry, remember that your parents love you and want to be your friend- they do have some wisdom they can share with you, be respectful to all the girls, etc. We did video most of his advice it which will be fun for him to look back on.
Poor Emilee to have to sit through all of this. But she was a great sport about it. Throughout this little shenanigan there were 2 red faces though! :)
And his list of 16 things!!
1. He is pretty smitten by Emilee!
2. He has been learning to play the guitar and is really quite good at it. It's fun to listen to him play and sing at the same time.
3. He loves to sing and to belt it out when no one is looking.
4. He is taking German this year and likes to talk to us like we have a clue what he's talking about.
5. He is a wealth of knowledge. He seriously knows something about everything. He never ceases to amaze me.
6. His cell phone is his most coveted possession.
7. He has a lot of allergies and he's doing the allergy shot therapy once a week. :(
8. He has started coming upstairs out of his 'apartment' a bit more and we love it!
9. He loves to continually point out that he's taller than me, which we all know isn't that hard to beat!
10. He isn't picky about too many things like a lot of teenagers. He's pretty easy going that way.
11. He is involved in a lot of different clubs at school. WDIR (We do it Right), German Club, FBLA and FFA. I love that he's involved in a variety of things.
12. We had a really hard time getting him motivated to study to get his Driving Learner's Permit, but once he had that in his hand, he wanted to drive ALL the time.
13. He has a good head on his shoulders. He has good friends, a cute girlfriend, gets good grades, and is an all around good kid. He's always been a relatively easy kid for us. We're lucky!
14. He's a very loyal friend. I've seen it time and time again- anyone is lucky to have him as a friend.
15. He doesn't always love to help me around the house, but he is quite helpful if I ask something of him.
16. He is turning into such the young man. Like a normal teenager he values his sleep (during the day), stays up late, loves spending any chance he gets with Emilee, and still gets annoyed by his sisters! We're loving our typical but unique Taylor!
