Happy Birthday to Half of My Family

2 out of the 4 birthdays in my house were celebrated Tuesday.

This is a picture of my hubby's birthday cake this year. It was very yummy, too. In case you don't know, that's Nipper the dog with the gramophone. Hubby is a huge vinyl record fan, and has a big collection of them. So, I thought it was only fitting that Nipper grace his cake.

My daughter also had her birthday yesterday. She is now 12. How is that possible?? I swear we just brought her home from the hospital. We looked at her baby book last night (a yearly tradition), and she was so tiny. I don't have a scanner, so I can't post a picture, but trust me, she's beautiful.

She was born on the same day that my hubby was. We actually chose to have that happen, since she was a planned C-Section. (Her older brother was an unplanned C-section, but I'll save that gory story for another post.) Another happy coincidence is that the same doctor delivered hubby and Lainey. 33 years apart. Doc was just staring his practice when Rob was born, and just happened to be on duty when his mom went into labor. He was just about to retire when Lainey was born. When we picked out the date, we didn't know which doc was going to be at the hospital that day. At a baby shower, someone asked me who was going to deliver the baby, and I listed all of the docs in the practice, since it could have been any one of them. When I mentioned Dr. Lamprecht, Rob's mom got this funny look on her face, and said, "I think that's who delivered Rob!" She later got out his birth records, and sure enough, Dr. L it was. So, when we got there and saw Dr. L, we told him about our coincidence. He was a bit surprised, but was pleased to see that Rob had "turned out so well."