Twenty-NINE?

Here are 29 reasons why I love Phillip:

1. He does all the vacuuming. This means I have to clean the bathrooms, but dear God I hate vacuuming.

2. When I'm starving and there's nothing to eat, he'll make me noodles with an egg. It's very easy: open package of noodles, deposit into boiling water, mix in a beaten egg. But it only tastes right if Phillip does it.

3. He's super cute. (Evidence below.)

4. When I'm anxious and can't go to sleep he promises not to fall asleep before I do.

5. He's traveled with me to all my favorite places. (Even if he prefers Rome to Florence or Venice. Which is wrong in 47 different ways, but something else I love is the way he eventually agrees with me out of exhaustion.)

6. He will always be older than me.

7. My husband has excellent taste. Every year on my birthday he buys me earrings and I always like them. Purchasing jewelry for me is a venture fraught with danger, seeing as how I am 1) horribly picky and 2) not much for jewelry, but every year I loooove whatever he has picked out. Honest.

8. He played golf today. Apparently he hit a birdie, whatever that means, and he will. not. shut. up. about. the. birdie. I am deciding to love this, because it is his birthday and he is so deliriously happy.

9. He likes kids.
 

10. After we put the baby down he does the next feeding, even if the next feeding is at 3 in the morning instead of the usual midnight.

11. He built me a TiFaux.

12. He will eat anything I don't want to eat when we go to the Big Chinese Dinners in Hong Kouver.

13. The summer we started dating he picked me up at the airport after not seeing each other for months and I said, "Do you want to walk around the lake?" and he said, "Okay!" even though it was very late at night and both of us were very tired. I don't think he has walked around the lake since.

14. He likes to take pictures, so much that we rarely have pictures with both of us together. All of the pictures of us together look like this:

15. When I wanted to paint the bathroom a cherry red, attempted to paint the bathroom cherry red, realized I'd destroyed our bathroom with cherry red paint and went upstairs to have a nervous breakdown, he took over and salvaged it by himself.

16. One time I drank too much and he guided me out of the restaurant lounge, helped me into the car, rolled the windows down, drove me home and put me to bed. 

17. He's seen about ten different Indigo Girls concerts plus an Ani DiFranco show at which I am quite sure he was the only straight Asian man in attendance. Because I wanted him to go.

19. He understands how much I love my television.

20. When I am proffering my shrill opinion about something political or social or religious he will not get caught up in my ranting and instead quietly offer his own middle ground thoughts.

21. Once we took this little "Figure Out Your Political Philosophy Test". I predicted that Phillip would end up smack in the middle and I was right.

22. Phillip used to walk by a homeless man on his way to work every day. One day he decided to give that man his coat. He really misses that coat. We've been looking for a replacement for years.

23. He likes babies.

24. When we go to the cupcake shop he wants the vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting. This is another thing I am deciding to love because it's his birthday.

25. He tried to teach me to drive a stick. Then he decided it was easier to just buy an automatic.

26. He is without any mental instability whatsoever, except for when he says I look pretty when I most decidedly do not look pretty. But I can live with this kind of insanity.

27. When I say, "We're putting the baby to sleep all wrong!" or "We have to throw out all the bottles and buy ones that don't leach chemicals!" or "We have to go see a lactation consultant before I DIE," he is always willing to go along with whatever I want to do.

28. I had to build a database for work once and I had to use all sorts of nerdy bits of code and I was instant messaging him every ten minutes for help. But he helped and he listened to me yammer on about my database for months and acted like he was proud of me instead of bored and annoyed by me, which is how anyone else would have acted.

29. Right now he is in the baby's room reading him a story. In an hour we will go out to dinner at a nice restaurant to celebrate his 29th birthday, but I won't feel any more googly eyed about him than I do right now, listening to him say, "THAT'S not my teddy- his paws are TOO FUZZY!"

Comments

[Angela]

So, so perfect. I may have to steal this format someday, it's so perfect. Happy Birthday to Phillip!!

[melissa]

sometimes I read your blog and think I'm looking in the mirror....er, or whatever...you know what I mean, right?

I hate vacuuming too! I don't admit this much because it seems to be something that my RL friends do quite frequently....that would probably freak if they knew how little it really happens.

MY hubby's bday is Sept 9th...how weird is that? Although he's 7 years beyond where Phillip is.

Love reading. Love the baby. Love that we're practically twins.

[E.]

Happy birthday to Phillip! Very cute post. I'd steal the format, too, except my husband is already in his 30's, so it could be a bit taxing to my brain to come up with that many reasons. LOL! Plus, he will always be years younger than I am, so I can't list that as reason, and that is depressing.

[Jennifer]

Happy Birthday Phillip! You don't know me but I feel like I know you! And Jack is a favorite in our house. You and he and Maggie end up in evening prayers from time to time because we love you all so much.

Happy happy birthday and cling to your 20s with your aging fingernails. I miss my 20s.

But, come to think of it, your 30s are pretty fun, too...

[karianne]

First off, you all make an adorable family. Jack is just cuteness personified, but all 3 of you are outstandingly cute.

Secondly, Happy Bday Phillip. Thank you for being such a great husband to our girl and a wonderful father to our baby boy!

Lastly, 29 items? Mags, you rock! You totally get the good wife award tonight!

[Kate]

*sniff* You 3 are so cute! That was the sweetest post ever. Happy Birthday Phillip!

[Shannon]

OK, the coat thing made me teary.

Cracking up about the ingigo girls concert.

You look great in that pic.

Happy Birthday to a great husband and father!

[Shannon]

"indigo"

[Manda]

He IS great! Three cheers for awesome husbands!! I have one too.
Thanks for your comment on "Reproductively speaking..." and your prayers. I have been following your blog for a few months after reading Jackson's birth story and crying (I was hormonal cut me some slack :) ). You're doing great!!
I'll still be stalking you (but I'm outed now so I'll start commenting more) hee hee!

[Debbie in the UK]

You are so lucky, he sounds just the perfick man! Wish mine was!

Love

Debbie