Happy Birthday to Me

For those of you whose RBG settings may not be working,

That's blue butter cream icing you see in the middle of that cake.

Something I didn't know 

Until I cut it.

Aaron's beyond ecstatic.

And I'm getting there, too.

I am, in no way, sad to have a boy.

I just really, truly thought it would be a girl,

For reasons beyond the "6-months pregnant instinct."

But

Sometimes, 

It works that way:

When you're expecting raspberry cream filling,

Life hands you blue.

And while it's shocking

And maybe bewildering at first,

They say it all makes sense in the end.

Besides, 

This baby will have several cousins, 

Cousins-once-removed, 

And otherwise close buddies

Who are all boys.

As my uncle put it,

A member of a club of our own Stripling Warriors.

So,

In the midst of the paradigm shifting,

 I am looking forward to truly begin

The dreaming 

The scheming 

The (name) debating 

and 

The shopping.

Happy Pre-Birthday to my little boy!

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All pictures taken by the awesome Kevin Miller.

More pics of the Golden Birthday Gala to come!