Sean and Aleece

Before I knew Aleece any holiday or birthday was just a 1 day event, much like just about every other person.  Even growing up Aleece experienced that.  But when Aleece was out on her own she turned holidays and birthdays into multiple day events.  At first I saw this as a way to milk more presents out of the situation.  But over the years I have seen that is is a really fun way for everyone to celebrate.  So now Aleece has a birthday month (I usually start kicking in a week prior) Christmas, Easter, Valentines Day are all multi day events with presents given out for the duration, and we are planning a birthday month for our kids, kind of the month in-between their birthdays.  This is one reason we wanted both kids birthdays in the summer, we can spend more time celebrating and having fun as a family.

Well today started off the birthday week for me.  This morning Aleece asked me if I wanted to start opening my presents today.  Now I don’t have much feelings either way, I can wait.  But the look on the face of Aleece, Leif and little Kalven told me I just had to participate in a birthday week.  So I opened up present #1, or more accuratly Leif gave me a present and opened it for me.  We all had fun.