Birthright

I explained to Daniel the concept of "anniversary" - that it's a birthday for your wedding.  Exactly one year after you're born is your first birthday; a year after your wedding is your anniversary.  I then welcomed him to guess how long Mommy and I have been married.

Daniel made a very good guess:  "Ahh... a year?"

Ian is more familiar with the statistics, but he had a complaint:  if we've been married ten years, why does he have to be a mere eight-years-old?  He'd much have been born ten years ago, so he could be a ten-year-old now.

I assured Ian that he became our top priority as soon as we got married.  But I didn't explain why it might have been somewhat smoother for things to go the way that they did, rather than streamlining our schedule to  coordinate his birthday with the date-range approximating our honeymoon.

I could have told him that if he had been born in Bali, he could never be elected president.  I do suspect that this limitation would have come to constrict his aspirations, in the big picture, much more than the actual, admittedly upsetting, condition of his not being a year and a half older than his current age.

I know that some people think our current president was born in Indonesia.  I'm not very interested in that debate, either way.  But I do know that having been born in Indonesia would not help Ian's likely career aspirations.  So I guess he'll have to be eight for now...

(September, 2012)