Jun 27 2008
Happy 5th Birthday (Repost from 1988)
My mommy told me last night that I was born at 12:13am, so I could stay up really late. I fell asleep and mommy and my sister ‘u’an carried me to bed because I didn’t wake up.
Today I get to have a birthday party and Tyler is coming over and ‘u’an and me can ride bikes on the flat road by Norm’s house. My mommy never let me use training wheels, but I don’t need them. She used to run behind me and hold on to my t-shirt so I wouldn’t fall over, but now I’m big and I can ride by myself, but I have to wear a helmet. 
I’m a big boy now [I say holding up a full five fingers], so I can read the newspaper with my daddy, and then we can go swing in the yard and I get to wear a coat and tie all day long.
Strawberries and cake and ice cream are really good. We also ate cherries that we picked form across the street. After cake I got to open my presents, and I got the coolest toy. It’s Optimus Prime from the Transformers and he turns from a Mac Truck with a trailer into a robot. I really like the Transformers movie, but I don’t like that Optimus Prime dies. When I grow up I want to be a robot.
collective *AWWWW*
Happy Birthday Ben!!
1) Are you wearing coulottes?
2) Dude, that’s a girls bike - even with a blue basket on backwards
3) Your legs haven’t changed much
3a) I SEE WHITE SOCKS AND SANDALS. You might as wear a Casio watch to attract the ladies.
4) Happy Birthday little Ben.
Awwwwwwwwwww!!!!
So cute!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEN!!!! Hope it’s an excellent year for you - racing and beyond, filled with new paths, new adventures, new lessons and much growth.
i still have my jetfire transformer. he was THE COOLEST (so was/am i).
your 5 year old hair was awesome. almost as awesome as your hair in that photo on facebook. you know which one i am talking about.
happy birthday!
I HAD THOSE SAME SANDALS!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
There should totally be a “shirt and tie” tri!!!! Happy Birthday Big Lil Bro!