Birthday Weekend Recap

I just had a great birthday weekend. Saturday was my cousin Bret's (the other, less-t'd Brett as I like to call him) Bar Mitzvah in New Jersey. It was great to see everyone but nobody loves Bar Mitzvah kitsch more than a four-year-old girl. Gwendolyn scored numerous glowsticks, sunglasses and a flag bandanna. Well, played, Miss G!

Sunday was my actual birthday and I got some great goodies including a My Little Pony birthday card from Gwendolyn, a Macbook (thanks to The Wife, The Mother-In-Law and Walt!) and the birthday cake with banana filling I'd been hinting I wanted since November. I finished off the day by watching The Seventh Victim with director's commentary. It's been over a year but I've almost finished my Val Lewton DVD box set. I've had it so long they've re-released it with a new documentary.

Birthdays are great but are always kind of weird when they're over. When they're good it feels jarring to go back to an ordinary day and when they're bad it feels like you wasted a once-a-year opportunity. Whatever, off to steal Wi-fi from my neighbors.

Happy Birthday Little Man!

My little guy, Owen turned one last week. He's a lot of fun whether chomping on his bananas, crawling all over the place and putting whatever he can find in his mouth. Sometime Owen gets overwhelmed by his identity as the second kid or Gwen's brother but he's got a lot going on in his own right. He loves to laugh and check everything out whether by sitting in his high chair sticking his head to see what Gwen is watching or crawling someplace and grabbing something he shouldn't.

Anyway, here's a slideshow of what Owen's been up to.