“You know what Monday is?” I asked Miles this evening.
He thought for a moment. “Thanksgiving?”
“No, Thanksgiving is Thursday,” I said. “But Monday is my birthday.”
Immediately, he said, “And we gonna eat all the cake?”
“Yeah I think so!”
“And you get a PJ Masks cake and a football cake and a Paw Patrol cake.”
“Miles…those sound like cakes for you.”
“And you get a Star Trek cake and a Jeopardy! cake,” he clarified. “Because you like those.”
The Perils (& Pride) of Paternity 