#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream

The color scheme for our later October birthdays is orange and yellow and green. Rusty pine needles. Rusty reflection of foliage on the Charles River. Orange and chocolate and green. My birthday soon. But today, we are still celebrating Wave. Tonight was our night to give him his dinosaur cake, made from scratch by his aunt Franci. Pizza from a favorite pizza restaurant so none of us had to cook or clean up. And the present from me and Frank, assembled and set for surprise. His first bike. His first ride on his own bike. Before dinner, we all went into the yard and he pedaled away down the driveway. Franci and I chased him and got our own bikes out and we had fun times riding with him before we were all starving and ready for pizza. A sweet family dinner with candles and cake and lots of time to talk and be together by the fire, making a birthday boy very happy.