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flea ([personal profile] flea) wrote2005-09-06 12:32 pm

happy birthday to me

I'm 33 today. So far we had lemon cake and coffee for breakfast, opened presents, I went to the gynecologist, Casper threw up in the car on the way to the doctor for her 2 year well child check, then on me, then on the car seat. We had her looked at (just a bug probably) & weighed (28 pounds) and came home, where she asked to have a nap (sure sign of illness in this kid!) and mr. flea has gone to work. What a day! 33 feels a bit old. I am still mentally stuck being 28.

Here is a less complicated birthday in my life: Sept. 6 1974. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/casperflea/34950530) I was 2 and we were living at my grandparents' house in Woods Hole. My grandmother used to tell me that I loved the ferry, so for my birthday we all rode over to Martha's Vineyard and I spent the whole trip saying, "This is MY ferry!" My mother recounted it this way in my baby book: "We all rose early and took the ferry to Oak Bluffs, M.V. A great thrill for us all. We walked around Oak Bluffs, took a VW bus taxi to Edgartown and back and returned to Woods Hole almost 4 hours after leaving. [flea] hardly tired. Did quite well. After lunch, when [grandmother] returned with a cake I blew up balloons ad festooned the curtains with them. We lit the candles, stacked the presents on the kitchen table and brought [flea] in. She was pleased - put her hand to her face + turned away with a little embarassment. ... She opened presents, wanting to linger with each one rather than proceed. And was so intruiged by the [Fisher Price Little People] houseboat that she played with it and missed the cake."

[identity profile] jesseh.livejournal.com 2005-09-06 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday to you!

[identity profile] susano.livejournal.com 2005-09-06 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday flea!

[identity profile] dxmachina.livejournal.com 2005-09-06 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday.

Hope Casper feels better soon.

[identity profile] forodwaith.livejournal.com 2005-09-06 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

Love the vomiting-in-car incidents; it's never over until you have to wash the carseat.
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[personal profile] fufaraw 2005-09-06 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Even better is the Saturday when your spouse has to work early and lets you sleep in, and you wake to a breached baby gate, mysteriously quiet children and a discarded baby aspirin bottle, cap off, a couple of gummy tablets dissolving beside the empty bottle. Call pede, he says epecac and ER. Both kids whoops in the car on the way, are freaked by the whoopsing and bellow frantically as you swoop into a spot by the door and bundle both of them, wearing only diapers and vomit, inside. The doc says, "Look okay to me. They both threw up? Take them home, let them run around in the yard, delay their nap this afternoon."

When spouse came home shortly after noon, he got the job of hosing out the car.

As [livejournal.com profile] forodwaith says, it's never over, etc.

So, now Casper's had her moment, and you can check that milestone off. Have a fabulous rest-of-your birthday! Your daughter resembles you to an astonishing degree--both beautiful.

[identity profile] katie-m.livejournal.com 2005-09-06 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

Also, I'm sure people tell you this all the time, but looking at you and Casper at the same age is creepy. Wow.

[identity profile] veejane.livejournal.com 2005-09-07 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
The freaksome resemblance force runs strong in her family. Her sister has it, her mother has it, her daughter has it...

Sadly, we cannot levitate objects withb our minds, although we can occasionally complete each other's sentences and recite lines from Asterix books.

My sister is 33! This is a reminder that I will be 30 in 3 days. Wait, whose journal is this? Never mind about me; there is more cake to be eaten!

[identity profile] katie-m.livejournal.com 2005-09-09 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
No telekinesis? Well, damn. I'm just staying here where I don't particularly look like anyone, then.

[identity profile] sophiabrooks.livejournal.com 2005-09-06 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!

[identity profile] calligrafiti.livejournal.com 2005-09-06 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday! Sorry the wee one's sick.

the big 33

[identity profile] mightyurchin.livejournal.com 2005-09-07 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday, flea!