My birthday boy

Ok this is not the retrospective i wanted to present. But since I have a half written post about madame fabu's interesting yet highly disturbing adventure into kidney stone surgery as well as another half written post about norm and aunt gretty's absolutely positively no good very bad day, and dont have time to give either post the attention needed to bring them up to stellar post quality (like youve come to suspect at chez panflutemaster!) here is the beginning of the retrospective. I have an idea for another one after his birthday party (OMG, I CANNOT BE A MOMBLOG) (Is it my fault that my children are so strikingly photogenic that it seems like a crime to deprive the world from their beautiful faces?) (On the other hand, it probably is my fault that their sociopathic antics make a great deal of fodder for what i hear is quite entertaining reading)Anyway love up some norm here and thanks to all of you for the happy birthday wishes....more norm, fabu and aunt gretty later...