Birthday time again (or was it Christmas)?

It's the season of birthdays again. Anika had hers a couple of weeks ago and Matt turns 11 on Sunday. Mike gets very excited about birthdays but I'm not sure that he fully understands the meaning of them. Before Anika's birthday he asked, "Is a birthday when it's only one person's Christmas?"

When Mike was quite young the association of candles and birthdays had him a little fooled at times. During a storm when the electricity was cut we lit a candle to the immediate response of, "Birthday! Birthday!" from Mike. It's just as well we never took him to one of those weddings where the bride and groom light candles. Hubby remembers a two year old girl who, having heard a chorus of "Happy Birthday" at a post-church supper, came running full pelt yelling, "Cake! Cake!"

Hubby has a big one this year in May so the preparations will start soon. When Matt was younger he had trouble with the idea that adult birthdays aren't quite the same as children's ones. On one birthday of Hubby's he asked about when Daddy's friends would arrive to play "pass the parcel"and why the balloons weren't blown up yet.

Happy Birthday Matt!