Birthday in Baltimore

Today is my birthday and we are spending it in Baltimore (don’t worry we have people watching house and dog etc.). Our son, his wife and their son Jack (our first grandchild) lives in Baltimore. Jack just turned six months. That is why I have not been very active in the blogosphere lately. Below are a few Leonberger Happy birthday photos.

Two Leonbergers are lying on the floor. They are wearing Happy birthday party hats.
This is a Leonberger Happy Birthday photo that Jen O’Keefe sent me. I am using it with her permission. On the left is Digory and on the right is Aslan.
The pictures show a Leonberger puppy wearing a party hat and it says Happy Birthday.
Debbie Ireland, a Leonberger community friend send me this picture today and gave me permission to use it.
The photo shows six Leonbergers wearing party hats. They are sitting next to each other and looking into the camera.
Leonbergers are celebrating. Caspian (Obi’s nephew), Austin (Obi’s son), Delfi, Obi (now 7 and a veteran), Digory, and Rilian (Obi’s son). Photo by Jen O’Keefe and Ira Van Order, prominent members of the Leonberger Club of America who allowed me to use this photo.

Today we visited the Cherry Blossom at Fort McHenry National Monument. Fun fact: “The Star-Spangled Banner” was born as a poem written by Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. Below are some Baltimore photos.

Cherry trees blossoming.
Cherry trees blossoming.
Cherry trees blossoming.
Cherry trees blossoming.
Cherry trees blossoming up close.
Cherry trees blossoming up close.
Baby Jack is sitting in the sofa. He is wearing a striped, red Pajama and there is a sign saying Six behind him.
Baby Jack is now six months old.
Jack is sitting in white highchair. He is looking straight ahead.
Jack is sitting in his new highchair. He is no longer a baby.
Baby in a stroller with a blue binky and wearing a blue coat.
Baby Jack in the stroller.
Baby in a stroller my wife and I are standing behind the stroller.
Baby Jack with us (my wife and I).
The photo shows my son holding a happy and laughing baby wearing a blue hat.
My son with his son, baby Jack, six months old.

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Author: thomasstigwikman

My name is Thomas Wikman. I am a software/robotics engineer with a background in physics. I am currently retired. I took early retirement. I am a dog lover, and especially a Leonberger lover, a home brewer, craft beer enthusiast, I’m learning French, and I am an avid reader. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I am originally from Sweden. I am married to Claudia, and we have three children. I have two blogs. The first feature the crazy adventures of our Leonberger Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle as well as information on Leonbergers. The second blog, superfactful, feature information and facts I think are very interesting. With this blog I would like to create a list of facts that are accepted as true among the experts of the field and yet disputed amongst the public or highly surprising. These facts are special and in lieu of a better word I call them super-facts.

63 thoughts on “Birthday in Baltimore”

  8. Lulu: “Happy birthday in Baltimore!”Java Bean: “¡Feliz cumpleaños! Many happy returns!”Charlee: “Our Dada says Jack still looks like a baby to him but he is way more familiar with kittens and puppies than small humans, so what does he know?”

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    1. Ha ha thank you so much Lulu and Java Bean and Charlee. I guess six months is still a baby. However, I remember when my son, who was one and a half years old at the time, was called a baby by other older toddler. The toddler just told him “you are still a baby”. That did not go well, my son slapped his face and told him “I am not a baby”.

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    1. Thank you so much Deanne. It was great to be with family including Jack, see the Cherry blossom, and I got nice presents.. Jack is a big baby, still 95% for his age. Even though he is the youngest at his daycare he is the biggest.

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  13. Happy, Happy Birthday!! I love the Leonberger birthday photos and the cherry blossoms are fabulous. But Baby Jack takes the prize. What a sweetie he is. Enjoy every minute with him.

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  15. Happy birthday — but more than that, what a beautiful way to spend it.

    There’s something quietly powerful about celebrating life not by looking back, but by standing right in the middle of it… surrounded by generations.

    Your grandson turning six months, your son now a father, and you there witnessing it all — that’s not just time passing, that’s life unfolding in its most meaningful form.

    The Leonbergers in their party hats made me smile, but what truly stayed with me was the feeling behind it all: joy, continuity, presence.

    And somehow, walking among the cherry blossoms — symbols of fleeting beauty — on your birthday feels almost poetic. A reminder that moments like these don’t last forever, which is exactly why they matter so much.

    Thank you for sharing this. Not just the pictures, but the life within them.

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  22. This looks like a great visit. I want your son’s kitchen lol. Also, now that I’ve seen all those cherry blossoms, I’m going to have to go listen to Marillion’s old song “Kayleigh” …

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    1. Thank you James it was a great visit. I guess they have a good kitchen, and speaking of kitchens, I just noticed the cherry blossom trees outside the window. They have a couple those too. It is funny, I don’t remember the old song Kayleigh by Marillion, but it is a nice song (just listened to it).

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