Party of Two, Please

James has made it through a quarter of a century! Hooray! We decided to have a just-the-two-of-us stay-at-home party. He even preferred to have homemade pasties for dinner instead of eating out.

While James was at work and class for 2 hours, I blew up 25 balloons, wrote 25 things I love about him, and then made a treasure hunt that led to a brand new bookshelf he's been wanting. Sadly I didn't have time to make 25 different clues, but I did throw in a bunch of fun facts about the number 25. For example:

• Manganese is the 25th element on the periodic table. And its melting point is 2275°F.
• The first 25 digits of pi are 3.141592653589793238462643 . . .
• Weirdly, PI written in number code is 16 9 and 16 + 9 = 25 which also coincidentally forms a Pythagorean Triple, 4² + 3² = 5².
• At the age of 25 James can now be elected to the House of Representatives.
• Arkansas is the 25th state, and their state mineral is Quartz.
• The weirdest of all: Did you know that the 25th President of the United States, William McKinley, was born on January 29th, James' birthday?!?!?!?!?!

Well, enough of that. Although it was pretty fun, and made for a pretty good party of two people.

Benjamin, Christy, and his Dad sent presents of cookies, moola, and a fancy Russian tie. They are so great! He also got a new plaid button-up shirt that is not blue. (Blue looks great on him, but he doesn't want all of his clothes to be blue.) But like I said, the present he really wanted was the bookshelf. We set it up while the pasties were cooking, and then filled it with books. He is so glad to have finally unpacked our last three boxes!

New shirt and new tie! It's a Jams Fashion Show. 

But look how handsome he is.

To commemorate, in the next post I am going to write 25 awesome facts about James.