*shudders* At least it was dead! We've had live ones before ...
The baby is so wee and solemn-eyed while the adults are stumbling around nekkid, trying to have a scratch. It's hilarious.
Yeah, I think it has do with memory and experience, as in when you're a kid EVERYTHING'S big and important, because most of it's new but your life is also necessarily circumscribed by what a kid can do. So a birthday is big because it's still a new thing but it's also something often kid-oriented in our society. If that makes any sense. (Plus, when I was I was kid, that was when I got new toys. That doesn't seem to be how it happens these days but it was for me ...)
Me, these days I tend to forget/not really pay attention until right beforehand even though my nephew's birthay is two days earlier and my brother's is five! Actually, maybe that's why!
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Date: 2012-12-03 02:12 pm (UTC)The baby is so wee and solemn-eyed while the adults are stumbling around nekkid, trying to have a scratch. It's hilarious.
Yeah, I think it has do with memory and experience, as in when you're a kid EVERYTHING'S big and important, because most of it's new but your life is also necessarily circumscribed by what a kid can do. So a birthday is big because it's still a new thing but it's also something often kid-oriented in our society. If that makes any sense. (Plus, when I was I was kid, that was when I got new toys. That doesn't seem to be how it happens these days but it was for me ...)
Me, these days I tend to forget/not really pay attention until right beforehand even though my nephew's birthay is two days earlier and my brother's is five! Actually, maybe that's why!