# celebrated his birthday ... he's not really talking because he just had his tonsils removed. I asked him whether he's getting lots of ice cream, but he did not answer.

He didn't even object when I congratulated him for being 75. (This is how it works: 6 + 1 = 7, but that one has to come from somewhere, right? So you take it from the 6 and end up with 5.)

His younger sister ( #, age 2 ) took the phone to tell me something, but I did not understand a word of it.