Sam and I had the funniest conversation on the way to work the other day… I had to write it down for posterity.

Here’s how it went.

Sam: Today is Julie and Grace’s birthday!

Me: Are they turning four?

Sam: Yes! They are twins. They were two eggs.

Me: Wow, they’ve really stepped up preschool curriculum these days. Were you an egg too?

Sam: Yes, and then I opened my eyes when I was in your belly, and I popped out and I was Sam.

Me: That’s pretty much how I remember it, too.

Today, Sam turns four! Sam was the first Mommin It Up baby – the first one born into this crazy blog.

He has brightened our lives and brings us so much happiness every day.

Happy birthday, Buddy. You are our dream come true.

As you may have heard (in my case, in the middle of the night, when my husband saw the commercial and felt the need to wake me up to tell me about it), George Lucas wants to make more money give the youngest generation of Star Wars fans the opportunity to see the movies on the big screen, and he’s releasing all six of them in 3D.

Isn’t that nice of him?

Episode 1: The Phantom Menace is out now, and let’s just say it’s not going to go down with Cleopatra and Titanic as one of the greatest movies of all time. Frankly, it sucks.

Fortunately for all of you, you won’t need to go see it. Sam’s going to sum up the movie in one minute, saving you not only $51 in tickets and $18.50 in snacks, but also two and a half hours of your life that you’ll never get back.

You’re welcome.

May the force be with you.