The birthday calendar is a dual monthly calendar and twelve-month chart.
The calendar is perpetual in that it is not designated for any particular
year or month. The monthly calendar is made of a dry-erase board
displaying a month grid that is filled in with erasable ink for any
particular month. The chart is a grid used to permanently record and
display birth dates and other annual dates such as anniversaries and
holidays. The chart displays columns intersected by rows. The columns are
grouped in twelve sets of two having a month column adjacent to a year
column. The rows display the dates of each month down the left side of
the chart, numbered from 1 31. An event is recorded in the chart by
writing the event's name in the appropriate month and date space and the
year in the adjacent year space.