10

Holy shit, did one decade just fly right by my eyes?

A few days ago, we celebrated TC's 10th birthday...

Our daughter is the big 1-0.

Double Digits club now.

One fourth my age!

The night before she was born, our ghetto'ish neighbors were having a wild party that lasted until the wee hours of the morning. Loud music, cursing, drinking, all that fun stuff. I hardly had any sleep. At 5 am, I felt the contractions.  We were at the hospital by 6. Had her at 4:33 pm. Got worried when Bert went out to lunch at Carl's while I was in labor. Luckily, he came back since the nurse called his pager (ha ha, pager!).

I was so relieved after she was born. I wanted to burn my maternity clothes in a bad way. Those things were hideous as shit and I was so glad I lost most of the baby weight so I could wear my normal clothes again.

Other people (okay, celebrities) who had babies in 2000:

Alexandra Bowie - Parents: Iman (married to David Bowie)
Rocco John - Parents: Madonna (married to Guy Ritchie, at the time!)
Dylan Michael - Parents: Catherine Zeta-Jones (married to ancient pepaw Michael Douglas)

...and I'm sure there are more, but I remember those people most of all since they were in the tabloids/news that same summer.

She turned out to be a pretty good kid who is shaping up to be (like it or not) a mini me in terms of trivial knowledge, sarcastic humor and hopefully, musical taste. Except for her Justin Beaver obsession.  I can't help but throw tidbits of musical minutiae every time we're in the car. As we play iPod roulette (shuffle), she hears little stories about the songs and the bands as I slowly expand her pop culure repertoire. None of this Disney shit gets played in my car, thank you.

All kidding aside, we are really fortunate that TC was born without any major health problems. She does well at school, is involved in extracurricular activities as well. She's well behaved for the most part and seems to converse well with adults. That's a given since she's an only child and we don't really hang around people with a lot of kids. So, here's 10 down and many more years to go! For the meantime, I'm just going to enjoy her at this age, when kids aren't totally embarassed by their parents (yet) and still want to be with them...