Monkey and I recently had a discussion prompted by a new sign post in the life of our Super Puppy. On Wednesday of next week, P. Parker will be 20 weeks old. I mistakenly referred to his coming age marker as "five months." You know: one month equals four weeks, twenty weeks equals five four-week periods, so five months. Monkey of course says no. Her age gauge says that Parker will not be five months until July 24--a full ten days after Parker's twenty week birthday, and somewhere in the middle of his twenty-second week (will he be 21 1/2 weeks?)!
My solution was to recognize his five month birthday on Wednesday, leading up (twenty-eight weeks (seven months?) later) to his twelve-month birthday at forty-eight weeks (approximately the middle of January), and then recognize his one year birthday on February 24, 2011. I thought it was a brilliant solution, but Monkey, always with one eye on the calendar, one eye on her watch, and one eye on her laptop (don't ask me how she does that with only the two eyes), won't go for that.
So, ho hum, Parker will be twenty weeks on Wednesday next...but he will not be five months old. Calendars, with all their extra days and savings times and leap years and Canada Day, they are strange.
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