Happy Birthday Dan

My oldest brother turns FORTY today. It is hard to believe as young as I am that I have a FORTY year old brother. Here are 10 things you might not know about him:

10. Dan hated his siblings growing up. The nicest thing he ever did for us was let us have sleep overs in his room with him. Not until he met his lovely wife Kris did he start to pretend to like us.
9. His nickname growing up was "Butthole"
8. Dan tucks all of his shirts in. Whether it is a turtleneck, a sweater, football jersey or a tee shirt, it is always tucked in. And just to be extra sure that it isn't going to become un-tucked he tucks it into his underwear.
7. Dan was the first of us in our family to get his Eagle Scout Award. He made us call him Gerald (as in Gerald Ford) for a few months after.
6. Dan loves to get his brothers inappropriate tee shirts that we could never wear out in public when he goes on business trips. For the last 2 months of Beth's pregnancy she wore my Korean Hooters tee shirt to bed.
5. Dan is the least tech savvy of the Kurt brothers. He is still rocking a 19 inch tube TV. Last year we finally talked him into getting a TIVO, it changed his life.
4. Dan loves new vehicles. Instead of washing or vacuuming out a van he will just trade it in for a new one. Because of the discount he gets at work he feels the need to drive the worlds ugliest mini-van.
3. Dan does not ever wrestle with his kids. Nor is he big into foot-slapping them.
2. Dan use to wear the worlds largest glasses. In his wedding photo the frames are so large that they covered most of his face and the glare from the lenses blinded the photographer. He recently got the Lasik procedure, and can now see through walls.
1. Dan and I look a lot alike, especially to Libby. At family gatherings she will run up to Dan with a huge smile on her face which quickly turns to a look of horror when she figures out that it is Uncle Dan. Apparently Dan is a hard word for Libby to say, especially Happy Birthday Dan, so she just says "Happy Dam".