Sigel's 15!!!!

I can't believe that Sigel is now 15! He looks like a teen now – not like a kid, pretty soon he'll be starting to shave! You know there's a teenager in the house when he opens up his bedroom door from getting ready for school and his cologne and deodorant smell wafts through the whole house. :)

We've been celebrating his birthday for a week now – after the team left, we stayed at the Marriot Hotel because they have an AMAZING American breakfast buffet that Sigel loves. So we all played hookie from life and walked around the mall, went to Sigel's favorite restaurant, played at the pool, ordered in pizza, and then Tristan took Sigel and Santos out to a 'guy' movie at the theatres (we hardly ever go to the theatre) while I stayed at the hotel with the girls and my friends Jenny and Miranda came and hung out with me. The next morning we swam right up until check out and then headed home.

On his actual birthday (Tuesday the 23^rd), he had school and Taekwondo and then had a bunch of friends over for more pizza and they played Wii all evening.

We're not sure why, but special days (birthdays, holidays, etc) are always hard on Sigel – he's usually angry and tries subconsciously to sabotage that persons day – Praise God – this was the best 'special day' we've had in the 3 ½ years with Sigel!!! Usually Tristan and I are working so hard all day to keep the peace and make the day ok – but this birthday was fabulous and before he went to bed he said thank you and that the day was exactly what he had hoped for!!! it was the best thing to hear and totally made all the work of a week long celebration worth it!