Everyone who knows me or reads my blogs with any regularity knows how devoted I am to Manthing's nieces, otherwise known as "The Niecelets", ages 10 to 3.

Today is my 42nd birthday and this morning I received this in my e-mail:

>Dear Kris,

> Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Kris.
> Happy Birthday to you! (Imagine five little girls singing and dancing)
>
> From M: Happy Birthday and good luck in your new year.
>
> From B: Happy Happy Birthday to you (sung sweetly)
>
> From S: Happy Birthday to you. You live in a zoo. You look like a
> monkey and smell like one, too. ( OK, yeah, she's at that age)
>
> From E: Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to S. ( Sung sweetly,
> but she's a little confused)
>
> From R: A monkey. A lamb. (She really prefers the Old MacDonald song
> to the Birthday song.)
>
> Happy Birthday!

Is that cool or what?