Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays

Yesterday was my Little Boy's birthday. He is seven years old. Practically grown! DH and I both had to work, but he had a wonderful day at the sitters (three movies!). We had a nice dinner together, then he took a bath, then he opened his presents and we had cake.

Little Boy is crazy about Bionicle's. He creates some interesting creatures, invents names for them, gives them powers and tells stories about them. When he gets a new Bionicle, though, he likes to put it together just as the instructions say. For his birthday, we gave him Thok, the blue and white Pirakha, and Toa Iruini, who later became Rahaga. Pirakha are bad guys, and Toa are good guys, but these two are in totally different time lines. It's amazingly complicated.

Today is my older son's birthday. He was born twelve years, three hundred sixty-four days before his little brother. He's twenty. He's starting his junior year next year at Big State University. He's spending the evening in New Orleans with his buddies, seeing the movie "Strangers with Candy." It's only showing at one theatre in the whole state.

Tomorrow, we are having a birthday party for the Little Boy. I don't know how many people are coming, but it probably won't be many. We'll have a cookout and play some games and eat cake. Then they'll probably want to play video games or something. Older Son is going to help out. What a guy.

Tomorrow is also my father's birthday. He is 68 years old - very young for a man with a daughter as old as me! He's part of the ultimate sandwich generation: he's taking care of his mother and his spouse, and while his kids are mostly independent, he's helping support his granddaughter (my daughter) through college. He carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. He's an amazing person.

July is a busy month. So many Leos!