happy birthday to me

[flea]

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."

Comments

[fufaraw]

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 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.