Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Double Digits!

Please join me in wishing a Happy 10th Birthday to 8M, our youngest.  So we no longer have any single-digit-aged children in our family.  Which seems like it must be some manner of a significant marker. . .

But not nearly as significant, at least in my (admittedly skewed) paternal mind, as the impending birthday of his eldest sister in a couple weeks, who is 20 years older. . .

Among his haul of presents was this blast from my past, which just seems way more fun than it oughta be. . .

13 comments:

  1. If I remember correctly, ten is just about the second best age to be, unless one is actually ten. The best is whatever one is currently.

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  2. 20 years of having kids is a long time. My mom had 7 kids (and 3 miscarriages) over the course of 18 1/2 years and I thought THAT was a lot!

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  3. Happy happy 8m, and to the parents as well.

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  4. Happy Birthday at your house! I remember loving that sort of treat, although I think we had them by a different brand name. Seemed so magical, at the time!

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  5. Skip - I remember twelve more fondly; that's when the Tigers won the World Series. Ten was the year Dad got remarried, and I got a new stepbrother; it, uh, took us a while to, uh, sort out the pecking order (and who was gonna be the pecker, and who was gonna be the peckee). . .

    JM - Well, technically, it's 20 years, less 2 weeks, but close enough.

    But just to level-set - pregnant-and-45 is a very, very different thing than pregnant-and-25. . .

    Xavier - Well, thank you. . .

    Bijoux - Thanks! We had Fizzies when I was a kid. In fact, we even had a joke - "That's about as funny as a flood in a Fizzies factory. . ." (One of the other versions of the joke ended with "a fart in a spacesuit")

    As I recall, we thought it was cool that we had sorta our own version of Alka-Seltzer. It never occurred to me to do anything other than drop 'em in a glass of water, but one of the first things our kids did was pop 'em in their mouths dry, to get the 'fizzy' sensation on their tongues. . .

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  6. How neat! It's the Kid's 10th birthday tomorrow!

    Happy Birthday to 8M!

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  7. Happy b-day to 8M! Congratulations, you made it through to having all double-digit-kids; I did that too, although we don't have nearly as many kids, so it's not such a big deal :)

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  8. Pregnant and 45... I can't even begin to fathom it, even though I had a few scares back then. Best to the boy and kudos to you both.
    I love my kiddos more, now than ever, since they are out of the house. ;-)

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  9. Flutter - Wow. . . so you and Jen were like, roommates in the hospital?

    Actually, about half of our kids were born within a day of one of our good friends' kids. I used to joke that 'you and [she] started out sleeping naked together', but eventually decided that wasn't such a good idea. . .

    Sailor - Yeah, it's kinda like the definitive marker that the baby factory is well-and-truly out of business. . .

    Schweeney - I certainly understand that whole 'absence makes the heart grow fronder' dynamic. It hasn't been at all uncommon for our relationships with our kids to improve after they move out. . .

    We actually thought that, once she hit 40, her fertility would sorta, um, subside, but she had two (count 'em!) kids after 40. It's funny - there was about a 2-3-year period when Jen, and about five other women we knew pretty well, were all pregnant at 43 or older. . . Must be that pure, Great Lakes water. . .

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  10. happy belated birthday to the young man. hope it was fizzilicious!

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  11. Lime - 'Fizzilicious'; I like it. . . You could get a job writing advertising jingles. . .

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  12. Happy Birthday, 8M! Enjoy those Fizzies!

    As I recall, the warning we received from our moms was that if we swallowed them whole, our bellies would blow up.

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  13. Suldog - But I bet you'd at least get some really prime-grade burps out of it. . .

    My kids seem content to go for the foaming-at-the-mouth effect. . .

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