Finest Fourteen

In no particular order, here are just 14 of the many things there are to love about Duncan:



1. His generosity. He always shares whatever he has. It just isn't in his nature to keep things to himself.

2. His laugh. It's contagious. If Duncan is laughing, we are all laughing.

3. His faith. He doesn't doubt. Not God, not Santa, not the people he loves.

4. He knows all the words to "If I Had a Million Dollars"

5. He doesn't talk your ear off.

6. His follow-through. If you ask him to do something, he will get it done.

7. His honesty.

8. He has a great hairline, and really nice hair. (When its clean:))

9. He is without guile. What you see is what you get.

10.He is a great speller.

11.He is very even-tempered. Hardly ever do we see him really really angry.

12.He loves to swim.

13.He has a good sense of who he is. He doesn't feel the need to impress people.

14. He is really really funny.



We celebrated Duncan's 14th birthday by letting him take the day off school. He got to open a new video game this morning, and spent the first part of the day trying out his new game. Then he and I went to lunch at Golden Corral. The first plate he brought back to the table had four pieces of fudge, a cupcake, and a scoop of mashed potatos on it. I sent him back to the buffet for something half way healthy to eat, but all told, I think he ate about 75 cents worth of food. After lunch, I had planned on taking him shopping, but he said he would rather have a surprise, so he went back home to spend some more time on the Wii, and I went shopping. Later in the evening, after a dinner of spaghetti and pizza, Grandma and Grandpa came over for cake and ice cream and presents.

In a stroke of incredibly good timing, here is Duncan this morning, standing in front of the clock at the time of his birth, 11:42 a.m. He had just washed his hair, which is why it looks weird.

Now we are going to try and figure out how to post his videos from You Tube onto his blog. He is way stoked to have stuff posted on youTube. He got a little video camera for Christmas, and just tonight, we finally got around to figuring out how to post them on YouTube.