The art of the birthday week

Dear Lilia,

Tomorrow is Mommy's birthday.  She claims that she's going to be REALLY old, but she's only going to be 25 years old.  With her being 25 and me being 28, I must be ancient or something.  Maybe I should just bust out a wheelchair or walker to fit the part better.  In any case, that's not what I wanted to write about.

Mommy thinks that there is a thing called a "birthday week".  It's something she made up a few years ago to have an excuse to be able to get me to do anything for her (like I don't already).  A birthday week consists of the entire week before OR after your birthday.  Essentially you can treat every single day of the week as if it were your birthday.

Now, I just want to get something straight here before you get old enough to try and think you can do it.  A birthday week CANNOT extend into a birthday month.  Also, if you forget about the birthday week, you CANNOT use it later on.  Mommy has tried to do both those things.  It just doesn't work.  Sorry if that disappoints you.  Besides, you can pretty much get anything you want from both of us anytime anyway (because we love you so much).

Please keep these lessons in mind later in life.  It will save you much disappointment later.

Love,
Daddy