Blowing Out Almost An Entire Hand's Worth of Candles

Happy birthday to my middle nephew, Caleb, who's four today. Like his older brother Noah did at that age, he's become quite the little conversationalist, so he's very entertaining to talk to on the phone. (He's also at the "cute" stage of conversation, where he refers to his favorite burger place as "Wed Wobin," adopting that pronunciation at about the exact same time Noah grew out of it.)

I won't be able to attend his birthday party this weekend, because I'll be judging Region Jazz on Saturday, but I was glad to see him at his little brother Micah's first birthday party last month, and I look forward to my next trip down there.