Bacon turns five today! It's hard to believe. It seems like just yesterday I was sitting on Lovely Wife's maternity bed gazing down at her beautiful exhausted face and his pink little wrinkled one.

He's growing up so fast. Worse, he's growing into me. He's the animal lover, the joker, the tool freak, the occassionally incredibly stubborn ass. Infinite mischief in a smiling wrapper.

Bacon is the one who always wants to help me with projects, the one who always proudly displays his latest biological finds. He's also the one with the penchant for drawing on every surface of our home with whatever is handy - and bringing Burger into his plots.

And just like Daddy, he's begun to use his little tool set to dissect things. Like Burger's electric guitar, his own R/C car, and some other cleverly hidden object that I've found only the screws for.

We butt heads a lot, probably because we are so similar in the stubborn department, but he's a genuine treat and I cherish this time when he looks up to me and wants to emulate me. Is it possible to get through the teen years with this intact? God, I hope so.

Happy fifth birthday, Big Guy!

Bacon shares his birthday with lots of famous people including Peter Sellers (of Pink Panther fame), Pink (the musician, and what's with the "pink" theme here?) and Boudicca, who turns four-oh today. At least that's what she says. Having met her, I'm fighting to come to grips with that. My personal age-o-meter pegs her at the low thirties.

Happy Birthday Bou!

UPDATE: Another famous birthday shared with Bacon. Today is Ted's special day, which he will no doubt celebrate by playing with something highly flammable.