With the advent of Peter's birthday yesterday, he passed from the very popular age of 35, also known in our house as "Ding-Dong-Buzz" based on this game*, to 36, a perfect square number (6*6). The last time he was a perfect square, we were engaged to be married, and the next time he'll be a perfect square, he'll be 49 -- which is definitely old! (As my nerdy siblings pointed out last night, this is a really exciting year because at the same time Pete is a perfect square, brother-in-law Graham is a perfect cube!)
ANYWAY, we had a fun time celebrating with both immediate and extended family. After a fun day with our kids, we left them with 3 wonderful kids/teens who are friends of ours (and babysat for FREE -- thank you Michael, Meagan and Maddie!) and enjoyed a night "out" -- a fun dinner with Katie and Graham, and then dessert at Dan and Amy's. Pete, of course, declared this his best birthday ever, as he does every year.
And his favorite story of the day centered around the cake I made him. I used the "square" theme on it as well, and when we sang and brought it out to him, he read it aloud: "Happy Birthday Pete: A PICTURE square!" I quickly corrected him saying, "No, it says a PERFECT square." But he pointed to it and I was forced to see... it really did say a Picture square. As it turns out, while I was frosting the cake, I had been talking on the phone about the subject of emailing someone a picture. So, proving that my feeble brain really can't do 2 things (well) after all, I wrote the wrong word. It's not often you get to see evidence of your own feeblemindedness written in frosting.
So, Pete's the one who's older.... but I'm the one who's losing it.
*Ding Dong Buzz is a counting game we play where everyone goes around and says the next number. But if your number is a multiple of 3 or has a 3 in it, you have to say Ding. And if it's a 5 number, you say Dong, and if it's a 7 number you say Buzz. So 35 is awesome because you get to say all 3. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment