How Many Birthdays?

How many birthdays does a person get with a little girl a little older than 1?

Not many. The experience and wisdom that a person who needs 10 hands to show their age has can and should be very valuable to someone who only needs one finger to show their age. This however is probably never realized by the person only needing to show one finger at request to share their age.

Yet, it seems that they still seek to mimic and replicate behaviors even though they don't truly get the value in a good example or wealth of knowledge and experience.

Like looking at a birthday card you helped make and have already seen... maybe because someone else is looking at their gifts as well?

Then again... where does the shadowing stop?

Should it stop at still sticking your new gifts in your mouth? 

Apparently not. Oh well. :-)

There are worse habits... right Grandpa Z?

Bappy Hirthday!

Today is a certain someone's birthday! Someone special! A Grandma, Mom, and much more to many! This particular person is very careful and mindful of not disclosing too much information at times when on the internet... so in a somewhat poking fun manner... I will simply state that the birthday gal MAY or MAY NOT be the creator of a blog called Paper Delights at http://www.paperdelights.blogspot.com/. This person MAY or MAY NOT mind a few Happy Birthday! wishes in the comments section of her last blog post if you should feel so inclined.

Here's another hint... the person I am referring to MAY or MAY NOT be referred to as Zaren Kastrow. She MAY or MAY NOT be related to myself and MAY or MAY NOT be celebrating a "big" birthday of sorts.

After speaking to the before mentioned person this morning, I was amused to find out that one of the special things that she wanted to have accomplished on her birthday involved her second half and was somewhat related to the picture below. I guess we all hope for different things on our birthday at different times of our life, right?



I just can't help but to be a little amused. :-)

Happy Birthday

Mom!

(spelled backwards to disguise identity.) 

We love you more than you'll ever know!

Wild Child

Avery is becoming more and more a blurr every day. Not the kind of blurr you have when trying to remember something. I'm talking about the kind of blurr the roadrunner makes when he flies by the coyote. Wait, that may be a cloud of dust. You get the point. She is NEVER sitting still. It becomes a full time job at times to keep a handle on a little girl that is constantly twisting, turning, lunging, jumping, & rolling in every possible direction at any possible time. Tonight we spent some time with Mom, Pops, & brother Nathan. Nathan's birthday is coming up on Tuesday and sometimes open occasions are hard to come by for any group of the Zastrows... so the stars aligned and it worked out tonight. Here is Nathan holding Avery... see if you notice any blurr.

Oops! She spotted us!

Then, suddenly... after a few mittens and a hat... the animated, crazy girl will turn into a stone faced statue out of nowhere. It's too bad it happened as Grandma was saying goodbye. I've been there. I speculate that she will be a decent poker player one day because when she decides it, nothing, and I mean nothing, will snap the poker face off of this girl! This kid confuses me at times... :) or maybe its because she a girl...