This past week was my son’s first birthday! All that means is that the planet earth made a trip around the sun and is back at more or less the same place relative to the sun. In terms of space-time, we are never back at the same place. The sun is revolving around the galactic core and the milky way itself is moving relative to the local cluster and space itself is expanding. Check this video out if you aren’t familiar with how everything in the universe moves and how the current calendar came into being:
My point is, the yearly celebration is quite arbitrary. If the earth took a couple of months longer to revolve, our birthdays would have been every 15 calendar months. I think what is important is to celebrate developmental milestones, but may be our developmental milestones also align with the revolution of the earth because of millions of years of evolution 🙂 ? Anyhow, given our lives revolve around the revolutions the earth makes 🙂 , it is important to celebrate milestones based on this construct. So we planned to do exactly that for our son’s birthday. Except, you know, COVID!
We still decided that such an important milestone be memorable. While we could not invite friends and family to a party, we neverthless did a small celebration where we decorated the house and my wife made a cake and we did a video call with out close family on his birthday. Our son seems to like the llama llama books so we made that as the theme for his birthday. Here is what the setup looked like:
The following day, my wife had planned for professional photoshoot. We were hesitant to do it because of COVID but the photographer had been quarantining between shoots and planned to wear a mask for the duration. So we thought that it was a tolerable risk. My wife was very exicted as this was the one thing she had been meaning to get for a while! We thought that we would do it at our son’s birth but, you know, COVID! We made arrangements for the photoshoot to be llama llama theme and we planned our matching outfits and got new ones for our son. My wife had also ordered a bunch of 12-18month outfits. As is customary, I put all the new clothes to wash and thought I was all set for the photoshoot day. On the day of, I was looking through the wash pile for the planned outfits and could not find them! I spent 30 minutes searching for them and have no idea were they were. Infact, 3 days on, I still don’t know where they are. In my mind a false memory of me washing the clothes was generated and I told my wife we were all set for the day. Imagine my wifes disappointment 😐 ,especially, since she had been looking forward to this for so long. Because of the snafu, we got delayed going to the photoshoot by an hour and did not have time to print our son’s milestone card on the way to the shoot as we had planned. Luckily the photographer was kind enough to accomodate our delayed start. We ended up getting some amazing pictures from the shoot that we will be printing to adorn some of the walls in our house
While the day was a chaotic one, the most important thing is, we had an unforgettable experience and a memorable day with those memories captured for us to relive over and over!
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