And Now He Is One!

This past weekend saw many events happen around the globe.  Notably, the Greek prime minister who took the financial world by great surprise (shock was not too strong a word!) last Monday and threw world stock markets into chaos when announcing that there would be a referendum held in Greece instead of simply going ahead with the bailout package worked out with and agreed to by other European leaders to help Greece survive its current financial crisis and still remain in the Euro Zone and who then was forced to backtrack, has resigned.  Whew!  That sentence could do with a rework, but will remain as is.

Also, the US joined the rest of the world by changing from Daylight Savings to Standard Time.  The rest of us did the same thing a week ago.  Locally, Roger Federer delighted an adulatory home town crowd in Basel by winning his first tennis title since January 2011 without breaking much of a sweat.  That brings him to within a few hundred points of regaining his No 3 ranking, which he lost a couple weeks ago to Briton Andy Murray - who has never won a Majors title.  HWMBO and I are still keeping our fingers crossed about the Great Roger's chances in the two remaining tournaments of the year.  Watching him play is almost like watching a skilled and artistic ballet dancer, somewhat reminiscent of the way that the great Steffi Graf used to float in a seemingly effortless manner around the court in the late 90s, albeit with a lot more power.  We are privileged to watch a legend in action.  Despite the many good, even great, players on the ATP circuit today, I can't imagine when the world will see such consistent greatness - as well as graciousness and courtesy - again.

But for me the major highlight of the weekend was realizing that little Prince Lightning's life is no longer just meaured in months. He has officially passed the one-year marker. He has come from this

and this

to this.

I haven't yet had word as to how the official celebrations went. They occurred this weekend when Prince Lightning had to share the birthday spotlight with his Uncle K, whom he adores, and with whom he posed in the spring.

But if he had half as much fun as his own celebration as he had at Big Bro's, then he must be one of the happiest toddlers in the world!

Happy Birthday, little Prince Lightning!  May you have many, many more and may they all be as wonderful for you as your first one has been!