Dick Van Dyke famously played family man Rob Petrie ... "I never realized when I was first having kids what I was starting," he wrote. "But, I'm amazed and grateful to have lived long enough ...

Dick Van Dyke shows no signs of slowing down as he approaches his 99th birthday, but it certainly has not been a quiet week for the iconic actor leading up to Friday's celebrations.

And they had to pick me up and carry me to the car. Otherwise it, it was. And then they, uh, we have *** guest house down here which had started on fire. We put that out. So they saved my house ...

We evacuated in the middle of the night, kids and pets all accounted for! Scary times!!" she wrote. In terms of current projects, Dick Van Dyke recently made a guest appearance on The Masked Singer.