Dash August 2015 15th birthday

Dash turns 15!! I can't believe my baby is 15 and will be getting his drivers permit! It's crazy, exciting and sad! I made him a New York style cheese cake! He loves cheese cake and tres leches cake but he generally loves anything sweet!! He is my junk food addict! His birthday gift was a bit hefty. He chose an playstation4

Dash and I collide a few times. I guess it would be understandable seeing that he is so like me and so no like me! He carries many of my good qualities but also a few of my others. He is tenacious! He is brilliant and truly there isn't anything that he can't do or pick up! Sports he's got it. Co-ordination comes to him naturally.  Intelligence, when he decides its what he wants to do, he does it well.  Grades come easy to him so he doesn't try.  It's almost maddening to see him put a project or prepare for a test and he get a 90 or higher! I think he settles for passing when he could push for more. But, why?? really.  He is such a perfectionist in some things and messy in others and this is ME! He is very detailed oriented.  He cares. Things frustrate him completely. He vents and yells and screams at us at home yet he is kind and compassionate and bites his tongue to others. He makes me laugh and smile every day thinking about the little things and quirks that he has! I felt like I was yelling at him often this past year and so we had a sit down on how I could be better and how he needed me to talk to him and I let him know what I needed him to do or NOT do before I went to my boiling point and I didn't want to push him to his boiling point! I have noticed a big change in our relationship and I'm grateful for it. I have a long way to go still but change for the better is good. WE both explode every so often.  He is a good son, he loves deeply. He cares and he helps out around the house and he truly listens! He probably is my most sensitive intuitive child and he doesn't like to let that side out but when he does, he just slays me! Happy Birthday Dash! You are my life and I am so proud of everything you do and I know you can do ANYTHING you want to!