Linds: Our favorite little baby, the is turning OLD today! (OLD is like SAD, just fyi.) But even though she’s OLD now, she’s still our baby, the!
Les: that’s right – still our baby. happy birthday, little baby han!
Linds: we hope that your special day involves lots of book and cake. but not at the same time, because that would be messy. and we don’t do that to books.
Les: you get messy when you eat cake?
Linds: well, no. but the potential for mess goes up exponentially if you’re trying to read and eat cake at the same time.
Les: ok, then. i’m suddenly glad you’re a thousand miles away and i never have to see you eat.
Linds: are you saying you’ve never gotten food on a book while trying to multitask?
Les: not that i recall
i’m clearly a much better multitasker than you
Linds: and you have weird rules about where and when you can read
Les: i do?
Linds: and what people can do with your books
i’ve spent so much of my life reading at the table, it’s inevitable that the books don’t always come out unscathed
Les: well, you just have to be careful
and not drip
Linds: i suppose
but sometimes it just happens
Les: i’m making a new rule that you’re not allowed to eat birthday cake anywhere near my books
Linds: boooooo
but fine
i promise
Les: kthx
Linds: maybe i’ll call it something other than birthday cake. ;-)
Les: the baby, however, can eat birthday cake wherever she likes
because it’s her birthday
and she’s technically a grown up
even though she’s still our baby
Linds: that she is
hear that, baby?
you’re still the baby
even though you’re OLD
Les: um, lid? if the baby is OLD, what does that make us?
Linds: shhhhhhh
Les: oh
right
Linds: it’s better not to go there
happy birthday, baby!
it’s your day, so don’t think about us and our relative oldness!
Les: right
happy birthday from your adoring (YOUNG) aunties!
Linds: we love you!
Les: oodles!
aww, how can i NOT think of my lovely, crazy, fantastic (young) aunties?! aww, this is such a wonderful post, just sayin’. and also: not OLD, just oldER! but thank you. and i promise, lid, i won’t eat birthday cake near my books. and i did get books for my birthday – three of them. and some movies. and movie tickets. and money. and a SNUGGIE! (woo) so a good birthday. it became even better now that i read this. so thank you. i love you both soooo much! <3
also: this post will be read and re-read like a bajillion times. it makes me smile a lot. and giggle. and almost teary-eyed because you both are made of win and GUH! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! <3
Happy Birthday Baby! I hope you have the best birthday ever! And how can it not be? You have books, and cake and a snuggie. But just so you know, your Auntie Lid is not a fan of the snuggie. She has teased me about mine. She doesn’t know what she’s missing!
BOO! the snuggie is AWESOME! seriously, ridiculously great.
and thank you, i did have an awesome birthday! :)