41 comments on “Ariel’s Birthday”

  6. Tra la-la-la-la la-la-la-la
    Happy birthday sweet sixteen

    (hopefully the last time I’ll ever have reason to quote Neil Sedaka)

  7. PAD, I hope you and Katherine have been too busy to sit down and lose 30 minutes of your lives to MTV’s Super Sweet Sixteen show in preparation of Ariel’s big day, seen the train wrecks that are on that show and looked at each other and swore on a stack of religious artifacts that this will not happen. Hope she got what she asked for. 🙂

  11. I hope you and Katherine have been too busy to sit down and lose 30 minutes of your lives to MTV’s Super Sweet Sixteen show

    Watching that show makes you wish an asteroid the size of Brazil would crash into the Earth. A year in the salt mines is too good for these little greedmonsters and their braindead parents.

    It IS a good test of your parenting skills though–watch it with your kids. If they express the proper contempt for the people involved you can breath a sigh of relief at a job well done.

    If they say they can’t wait to be on the show…well, you really screwed up. Get a vasectomy.

  12. SIXTEEN? Yikes — like Elayne, I remember reading the birth announcement (either online or in BID).

    Many happy returns!

    (And while I’ve never watched the MTV show, I know enough about it to agree completely with what others are saying. I like Bill’s idea of it being a parenting test, though I’m not sure it works as such when your daughter is only 3…)

    TWL

  14. Wow.

    I remember reading the BID about Ariel coming home and passing of Carol Kalish in my college art course while waiting for class to start. I was just shy of 21 then.

    Ariel must feel absolutely jubilant at the prospect of having hit this milestone. I suddenly feel very old.

    Happy Birthday, Ariel. If I were you, I’d hit the old man up for something really cool from Dragon*Con for a gift (like an autographed prop or some such from one of your favorite movies or shows.) You know, make him earn his keep in the family.

  21. Birthday Happies!

    It would be nice to be around for (Step)Granddaughter Maggie’s (now twenty-one months) sixteenth, but i figure the odds on that are fifty-fifty at best.

    I figure that my odds of seeing what happens when my brother’s twin daughters hit sixteen)in about ten or eleven years) are a little better – given that they show promise of being at the very least Devastatingly Cute and will be a bit exotic for their SC home community (assuming Dave doesn’t move before then), i expect thst Daddy is gonna be a bit frazzled…

  25. Well, since Bill Mulligan already did Sedaka, I guess I’ll go ahead and do The Platters.

    Six-teen candles (whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa)…

    Etc. and so on.

  29. Sixteen!? Ðámņ, this is making ME feel old, PAD, I can’t imagine what you must be going through! =) All my best to the birthday girl.

  32. Happy Birthday Ariel.

    It is amazing how time flies right by. I went with my daughter to get her learner’s permit last month at precisely 3 months before her 16th birthday. (Due to various complications at the MVA she didn’t actually get it for a few days later, though.)

    Neil

  33. I remeber the BID with the illustration of Ariel. I can’t even believe it’s been 16 years since that movie. Happy Birthday!
    Hope you get a nice dinglehopper or snarfblat.

  40. Gosh, that makes me feel old. I remember a Dragon*Con years ago (I made every one from ’95 till 2005, missing the last two–alas–b/c of a move from Atlanta to North Carolina) when Ariel drew me a picture of you while I was in line–she seemed like a toddler then! (Though she was likely a bit older than that; my mind’s just failing) In any event…Happy belated 16th, Ariel!

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