For the past three years, I’ve had this plan of how to wish Scott a Happy Birthday at work, but he thwarted me each time by working from home. This year, he finally went into the office! So, Kate, Simon and I (Audrey was still in school) made a sign that said, “Happy Birthday Dad!” Then we went to IBM and sat on the ground below his window six floors higher, holding the sign. Then, the real work came. I called Scott, while trying to hold Simon still, so that he didn’t run off and jump into the reflection pool. Scott didn’t answer. So, then I tried his office number. No answer. So, then I called his cell phone again, and he answered. I asked him if he was busy and he said he was on a phone meeting. I said, “Oh, I just heard that there was some festival going on there today. Have you seen anything?”
Scott: “No.”
Me: “Huh… well do you want to maybe just go look out your window by the reflection pool and see if anything is going on?”
Scott: sigh… “Sure. Hang on. Nope I don’t see anything.”
Me: “You don’t?!?”
Scott: “Oh – now I do!”
We wandered around taking pictures for a while and getting into trouble by security for taking said pictures. Scott quickly got off his phone meeting and came down to go to lunch with us.
We went to Panera. Mmmmm.
My birthday was on a Sunday this year. When I was little I always hated it when my birthday was on a Sunday because, all you’d really do was go to church. This year it rocked because then we had reason to do something fun the day before and a few days after.
The kids (with the help of Scott) all gave me some fun presents.
Audrey was so excited when I opened the one from her, she threw herself on me before I was even done unwrapping it. And Scott, of course, made the traditional delicious trifle for me.
Our family has made up some pretty fun games with birthday streamers consisting of doing handstands and cartwheels to pull the streamers down with our feet, jumping to get the tape off the ceiling and then landing/rolling on the couch, stretching the streamers between two walls to be the finish line to run through, and now Kate has added a new one.
Modeling. Audrey would yell out, “Presenting Kate!” And then Kate would walk through strutting her stuff while I described her fashionable outfit. I now hear them using the word fashionable all the time.
