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porphyryWe have many June birthdays in our family. Two that come close together are my mother's and mine; hers is on the 21st and mine is on the 24th. We usually celebrate them together (although both my mother and I don't much care about birthday celebrations for ourselves anymore, the kids like it).
Madeline picked out her grandmother's card. After I pointed out the grandmother card section to her, she vacillated between one with butterflies ("Fly up in the sky," she kept singsonging, twirling her index finger to demonstrate) and one with three baby bluebirds sitting in a nest on the front. "We can only get one," I told her, and so Madeline finally decided on the bluebird one.
But it was Andrew who assigned which bird was which on the inside of the card--when the card opens, two of the birds, now wearing party hats, are taking flight and the third, wearing a party hat too, is still in the nest.
"The one wearing the blue hat and flying is me. The one wearing the pink hat and flying is Madeline," he instructed, and so I wrote their names on the birds as he told me to.
"And the third?" I asked. My sister-in-law is expecting their son's arrival in September.
"That's Jakob," Andrew said. "He's still cooking in Heidi's tummy, and he can't fly yet." And so I dutifully wrote the name on that bird as well.
Madeline picked out her grandmother's card. After I pointed out the grandmother card section to her, she vacillated between one with butterflies ("Fly up in the sky," she kept singsonging, twirling her index finger to demonstrate) and one with three baby bluebirds sitting in a nest on the front. "We can only get one," I told her, and so Madeline finally decided on the bluebird one.
But it was Andrew who assigned which bird was which on the inside of the card--when the card opens, two of the birds, now wearing party hats, are taking flight and the third, wearing a party hat too, is still in the nest.
"The one wearing the blue hat and flying is me. The one wearing the pink hat and flying is Madeline," he instructed, and so I wrote their names on the birds as he told me to.
"And the third?" I asked. My sister-in-law is expecting their son's arrival in September.
"That's Jakob," Andrew said. "He's still cooking in Heidi's tummy, and he can't fly yet." And so I dutifully wrote the name on that bird as well.
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Date: 2008-06-23 07:53 pm (UTC)Thank you for the birthday wishes. And happy birthday to you too!
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Date: 2008-06-23 10:14 pm (UTC)(And your mum shares her birthday with my friend Julia. This year I got her a t-shirt that read: "Keep calm and carry on" [a very sensible attitude], a dancing flower and bottle of wine.)
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Date: 2008-06-23 11:40 pm (UTC)That t-shirt slogan reminds me of my own coffee cup I use at work in its sensible assessment of our choices in life. It says: "One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee."
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Date: 2008-06-24 01:18 pm (UTC)Maja's got a (naturally lazy) boy drone friend called Willi. "Der faule Willi" [lazy Willy] is a common way to tease a laid-back guy. Here's both of them: http://jetztimg.sueddeutsche.de/upl/images/user/di/dirk-vongehlen/346270.jpg
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