Happy Birthday Nashoba!

Seventeen years ago today I gave birth to a nine pound strapping baby boy. He was without a name for two days as we had some difficulty settling on a name, but then his older sister started to call him "Sha-pu" which was similar to the name of our cat Shabu. It actually sounded pretty good, but since we did not want to name him after the family cat, we went with Nashoba, which means wolf in Ojibwa. It suited him as he was a very strong healthy baby and it continues to suit him well today as a strong healthy tall young man. Its still rather hard to believe that the 21 inch long baby has become a six foot one inch tall young man--it seems like just yesterday he fit on one forearm. At any rate, Nashoba, I wish you an incredibly happy birthday and many many more to come.