Author: amyewhitelivecom

So, this happened.

On the way home from TKD the other day, Quinn told Don that he was having a hard time seeing the white board in school. I was able to get him an eye appointment the next day and sure enough, he needs glasses. The glasses have a very small correction, but enough for him to see distance better. When he puts the glasses on, he says the graphics are much better and he can now see in HD. Teen speak.

Quinn tried on a bunch of different frames and he kept coming back to this one because it was the most comfortable. Funny that it’s the same brand and almost the same frame that Don wears. Like father, like son.

Quinn is pretty pleased with wearing glasses. He told me this funny school lunch story. Quinn was having lunch with 2 friends, Logan who wears glasses and Elias who does not. Another kid, who also wears glasses, sat down at the table with them. So, 3 with glasses and 1 no glasses. Logan turned to Elias and said “Hey 2 eyes”. LOL.

Quinn has a new group of friends that have formed. He’s known all the kids since 1st grade but they seem to be forming some new friendships. He got a text to meet them at the mall on a Sunday afternoon. We are working on giving Quinn more opportunities for independence and thought this would be good. It turned out to be Quinn and a handful of girls…and he had fun. He texted to be picked up and this is where we found him.

Deep thoughts at the dentist.

We got a rock and roll start to the week. It wasn’t a very big one but it was only 3 miles from us. The house shook for a good 10-15 seconds. Wow! My biggest shake yet.

Quinn did this pencil sketch on a post it note of his buddy Elias. His dad sent it to me. It does such a great job of capturing him. They were talking about Native Americans in Social Studies and the corn grinder they used. Somehow hilarious to 13 year old boys.

Did you know they make PPE gear for musicians? Quinn is starting up private lessons again and he needed this gear for the lesson. At school they just go outside.

On Sunday we drove up to Santa Barbara for the first time in a year or so. There’s an ocean side restaurant where we like to stop for lunch. You can’t tell but the ocean is on the other side of those hedges.

Every Sunday there is an outdoor art sale. We were looking for a wind spinner sculpture for our yard but we weren’t able to find any. But a lovely afternoon.

Celebrating our special guy. Don requested hot dogs for his birthday lunch so we went to our local Dog Haus.

Opening gifts before dinner. I forget what they were laughing about.

We had made 5:30 reservations at one of our favorite restaurants but we were so stuffed from our lunch that we changed it to a different restaurant at a later time. A nice lake view restaurant. Don got a complimentary Birthday Creme Brûlée.

Quinn ordered a Banana Split and it was taking forever. We had no idea that it would be so huge. Quinn polished most of it off.