Happy Birthday Kaeden!

Today is my youngest son's birthday.

He is turning 4 and he seems ready to take on the world, so long as the world allows him the opportunity to take time to watch Spongebob Squarepants, Ed, Ed and Eddie and to play in his new sandbox (lid included to prevent the cats from using it as a litterbox {More memories from my childhood}).

My mother called and after wishing him a wonderful birthday, reminded me of my birthdays...with complete recollection of the outfits I wore (my mother dressed my brother, who is a year younger, and I in matching outfits for a number of years...Sailor suits {handmade by my mother}, Irish fishermen's knit sweaters {purchased while visiting Endland and Ireland}, and lederhosen {bought visiting friends in Germany} for crying out loud).

We thought we were the coolest at the time.  It was not until years later that we would cringe when the photographs would come out.  We were then mortified to have or friends or girlfriends see us dressed like extras in a Village People video or like canidates for a Hilter Youth group.  But at the time we envisioned ourselves as quite the pair of international and worldly young men.

Actually I guess the outfits cause me no more cringing than the pictures of us dressed in, the then popular, bell bottoms, plaid Sears Tough Skin pants (with the bulletproof knee reinforcements) or worse yet...the frilled blue shirt worn under my Prom Tux (Man I wish now I had choosen the pleated shirt...it just wasn't popular at the time).

Somehow I doubt I will remember my son's Spongebob shirt next year...much less 38 years later.

I just can't seem to decide if thats a good or bad thing.

Either way, I hope his birthday is a wonderful and memorable one for him

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[barfing]

What was Al Gore thinking when he invented the internet? Giving a vehicle for pompousness and overtold stories? What's next-the GI Joe head story?