10/25

It's K's birthday.
I adore K. Everything about him.
I could write a long post about his attributes and what a wonderful husband and father he is.
And he is...but I'm going to write a post about HIS PRESENT.


Middle and I went and got his girlfriend, S.



Then we went to the mall.
I needed Middle at the mall.
More specifically, I needed Middle at THE APPLE STORE.



I'm sure I don't have to even TELL YOU what we were there to purchase.



Middle did several tests.



The all-important call test.



The slightly-less-important internet test.

Mom, the phone is just like an add-on to the rest of the device. It's incidental. It's like walking around with a computer that just HAPPENS TO BE ABLE TO MAKE CALLS.

Sufficiently impressed, we asked Nick some questions. Nick was very helpful. Nick took out his car keys and wowed us by scraping them with some force against the screen on the phone.
Actually, 'wowed' may be the wrong word. Middle and I had a visceral reaction to Nick scraping his keys on the phone.
We were more dumbfounded by the nano-second. We requested THE BOX.



I sort of wished that they would bestow the box upon us and heavenly music would be heard. But Nick was a casual guy. It was kind of cool when I mentioned the ever growing line for the register and Nick said: no problem. I'll just ring it up for you here.




And so he did.

We brought our gift home, Middle hid it in his underwear drawer and we HAD TO WAIT three long days to present it to K.
It was hard. I kept almost telling K about the neat features Middle demonstrated for me. I kept almost telling K how cool it was. I'm telling you IT WAS HARD.

And then, this morning. I completely forgot it was his birthday.
I got up, got dressed and sat down to check my email.
I realized after about ten minutes and RAN LIKE A CRAZY WOMAN to wake the boys.



The boys waited patiently while he read his cards. Boys don't get the whole card thing.



Middle always wraps gifts with aluminum foil. We told K we were giving him lamb chops. I wrapped Middle's lunch with the wrapping paper.



Some people dashed out of bed and did the last-minute lick of the envelope...but the giant pack of Toblerone helped distract from the card business...





K finally opened the lamb chops, I mean iPHONE.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.

Happily, Middle had first period off and was able to help with the orientation.





But now he's off to school and K has his new toy all to himself.

Happy birthday my sweetie...



Call me!