Christopher has a birthday...

That's right! Almost exactly 2 weeks after my birthday, Christopher has his birthday on September 6. Where as I never had to be in school on my birthday (which is one of the reasons I thought it was so great as a kid), Christopher will probably always have to be unless it falls on a weekend. And the first week of school is always a bit crazy, so it is hard to actually plan to go anywhere and really celebrate his birthday until some time after. So how did we celebrate his birthday this year? He went to work, and I went to the dentist. But in the evening, I made him his favorite pork chop dish, and his birthday pie--strawberry rhubarb.
We bought some decaf coffee (unheard of here), because my grandmother taught me the best time to have coffee aside from first thing in the morning is with a good piece of pie. Since we both had to get up the next morning, it worked out okay. And it tasted so good with the pie! He opened his gifts, and we made a good time out of the short time we had to celebrate after he got home from work. He got a couple of CDs, an X-box game, a DVD series from the show 'Numb3rs', and other assorted gifts. Ava got Dad a Curious George cookie, which you can see sticking to the pillow in his birthday picture. It was a good birthday for Christopher.