Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Bubba's Birthday aka Harrison's Quinceanero- by Violet


Today is a monumental day. My little baby brother turns 15. Like my mom included earlier, Harrison Fuller is the best child. He's a saint. If anything ever goes wrong at the Fuller house, you can bet he is the one putting out the fire. He's the fix it man, the cook, the brains, and the counselor. It's so exciting to see him grow up and do things, because somehow he keeps getting more and more capable. I'm pretty sure he surpassed all of my skills at age 4. He's a smart, smart boy.

So smart in fact, that he knows he has his older sister wrapped around his little finger. When I first started waiting tables and making my own money in high school, Harrison was literally the first person who benefitted from my earnings because he has the nearest birthday. So instead of the mandatory family $10 spent on a sibling, I bought him something he had been wanting for 4 times as much... because he was just that worth it. He quickly was able to use this, and was smart enough to ask his older sister Violet for the bigger and better things. So Ace and Anabeth played it smart and stuck to the $10 limit, but Big sister Violet was played like a fiddle with that sweet sweet smile and continued to dote on Harrison for his Birthday and Christmas. It's not like he was ever trying to swindle me, it was just that he saw how much I cared about him and knew that there was nothing at that time that I would rather spend money on than my little angelic bubba.

But today is his birthday- and I have nothing. Partly because I couldn't find a sweet sixteen shirt available at the game, and partly because I'm also trying to match all the great presents I have given him in the past. I have to find the perfect thing- for the perfect 15 year old. Pretty soon he's going to get way too old for his sister to pick on him and love on him- Like his too-cool-for-school big brother Ace. Let's hope he never gets there.

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