Reason #169 – I forget my son’s second birthday
Reason #169 – I forget my son’s second birthday
Jul 22This is one for the record books. It is.
When I first got pregnant, my doctor enthusiastically announced September 26 would be the date my fully-baked boy would show up in the planet.
The boy, he had other plans.
Turns out my kid is a big fan of numbers, because he held out for SIXTEEN DAYS after the damn due date just to be born on 11/10/09. (Americans, that’s 10/11/09 for you. Not so cool, I know, but if he had held out till November 10 I would have C-sectioned myself.)
Anyway, it’s kinda hard to forget that birthdate, both for the easy numbers and for the insanely long wait that preceded it.
I managed well enough last year, going as far as to plan an elaborate pirate-themed birthday party for the boy. On the right date, too!
It is a well known fact that kids under 2 can fly for a nominal fee, as long as their parents are willing to submit to unbearable misery, discomfort and pain carry them on their lap. I should know: to date I’ve taken the kid on 3 round-trip transatlantic flights plus one from Costa Rica to LA that took over 24 hours and a sleepover in Houston.
I must be a sucker for pain, because I’m about to do it once more: we’re going home to Costa Rica so C can spend some quality time with his grandma and auntie, and also to take advantage of the last cheap flight. The plan was to fly back the day before his birthday, so we could celebrate it there with family and then here again with out new friends. With this plan in mind I sat down on the computer, whipped out the card and shazam! Tickets!
I was feeling pretty pleased with myself until the Dane asked about our flight dates, and immediately pointed out that we could have stayed a bit longer.
I got a return on October 1st.
Because I clearly don’t know when my son’s birthday is.
Our sons share the exact same birthday and I keep forgetting as weLl…but for me it’s because I was in labour for 36 hours so technically he should have been born the day prior, which was on the Canadian Thanksgiving. :) I have to constantly look on his birth cerfiticate to get the correct day. Lol
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ofthesea Reply:
July 29th, 2011 at 11:35 am
Moving to the USA, with its ass-backward date system, has made for even more confusion – was he born on October 11 or November 10? Ack!
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You didn’t forget his birthday – it was just the drop-down box for dates that you can blame. It *looked* like an 11.
And yes, American date formats… 15 months into US living, and my brain still has to do cartwheels when I look at a date, in order to make sure I’ve got it correct…
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ofthesea Reply:
July 26th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Problem solved: I had forgotten a previous appointment, so I had to change the flight dates altogether. Phew!
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At least you’ve only gotten it wrong the one time. My second born’s birthday is EXACTLY ONE MONTH AFTER MINE, yet I (and everyone else) constantly get it wrong. Because it just makes more sense for it to be the other day. If I was born on 6/16, then she should have been born on 7/17, right? It’s so bad that my mom had to go run out and buy a cake for her this year, because she ordered it for the wrong day.
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ofthesea Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 8:00 am
Hee hee, I can see the logic in your madness.
Also, this year? Is probably the first of many in which i will bungle it up. Thank goodness he’s still to young to notice/care!
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C kind of looks like the McDonalds Hamburgler in this photo! Burgle Burgle! I love it!!
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ofthesea Reply:
July 22nd, 2011 at 8:01 am
A pirate hamburgler! XD
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