The problem with children is that they grow when you feed them.  Jeanine started feeding Maya exactly seventeen years ago and now look what has happened. She is all grown up and only a year away from leaving the nest. We celebrated her birthday this afternoon with cousins Johnny and Rachel, brother Nico and Karuna and the “rents”.

Johnny prepared two magnificent birthday cakes with some assistance from Karuna and Rachel.  He spent several hours over two days creating the cake featured in the movie “Burnt” as well as a peanut butter and chocolate cheesecake (I think I will go sample another piece right now).

I too was celebrated on this Father’s Day and am seen below modeling one of two shirts I received from the kids.  The only thing that would have made the day better would have been to win our soccer playoff match this morning.  Instead we finished the spring season one game short of competing for top honors in the state.