My first born will be 15 on Thursday. Where did the time go? Tonight he got his Varsity letter in wrestling. It was kinda nice because they did freshmen and sophomores first and just had them all come up. There wasn't supposed to be any clapping until they were all up there and coach went through his little spiel for each kid (he wrote something specific to each kid and what he though of their past and future). When Cole was called the other boys clapped for him. I thought maybe it was just because he was the last freshman to get called, but when they did the other grades they didn't clap like that. They all know of his heart condition...kinda hard not to since you have to strip for weighins and they asked when they got curious about his chest scar.
I think Cole felt a little freeing when he finally told his teammates at some of those first practices. He's never talked about it with any of his classmates and hadn't even told his best friend until about sometime last year. He just is sort of quiet with personal things like that. I think it surprised him with how supportive they all were and in return I think they were surprised with how tough he was. He never gives in regardless...never weakens....always tries his best.
And tomorrow night, Cole gets his car. We committed to buy a 1998 Blazer last night from someone that lives nearby. And while it has a couple hundred thousand miles (close to anyways) it's in pretty nice shape and seems to run nice. Though I had to figure out the ticking it was making and it seems like we will need to change the multi-function switch. It's okay...the part is about $85 and I think we have some help for putting it in. Otherwise the internet says it could cost $300 to replace. We'll get it in. He's SUPER excited. It's really want he wanted and we got to stay within our budget, including taxes, so we're pretty happy too. Now, we just have to hope that he gets some good mileage out of it before the motor goes. We know it will eventually happen, but hopefully we get a monetary breather first. It does look pretty nice for a 14 year old vehicle.
It was desserts only tonight and Jaemin LOVED the selection. He really loved the green icing cupcake!
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