I ended up taking a day off for my birthday, though not really out of choice.  Cam ran a very high fever on Monday night, so we decided that he shouldn't go to daycare and I stayed home with him all day.  At first I was thinking "uh oh, a lot of work is not getting done with this sick day" but in the end it turned into a blessing - I got to spend an entire with Cameron, just me and the little guy.  It was the best gift that I could have gotten.

...but running a very close second is the gift that Sara got me.  I finally got to open and boy was it worth the wait - an iPod Touch!!  It is soooo nice.  I've played with it at the Apple store, but they've got it tethered to the desk there (for obvious reasons) and its sheer awesomeness doesn't hit home until you, er, bring it home.

I also got a new laptop from my work on Monday: a brand new MacBook, one of those swank "engineered from a single block of aluminum" puppies.  Aluminum casing, LED screen, backlit keyboard, wicked glass touchpad, and fully tricked out with 4G of ram.  It feels so ridiculously luxurious.  I knew the LED screen was nice, but a side-by-side comparison with my old Macbook was night and day - it was like going from a standard definition tv to a HD tv.

New iPod touch, new MacBook, and a full day spent just me and the little guy.  Sara made me a great dinner and got a very nice cake.  Quite possibly the mostest perfectest birthday ever.