HAPPY BIRTHDAY TILLIE!

November 30, 2008

Happy Eighth Birthday to my Darling Tilly McGillicudhy,

Such a sweet little baby and a lovely little girl!

"Gingerbread" Birthday Party #1...

(held on November 22, 2008 to avoid the Holiday weekend)

Tillie is a true original...

always thinking of some unusual way to celebrate!

She decided to have a Gingerbread theme this year...

at least her birthday is near the holidays

& gingerbread "stuff" isn't too hard to find!

Happy girl with a cute and yummy house!

"Best Bud"

Sweeeet......

PEZ Windows, neat!

The gingerbread "girl" is Mary Poppins...Burt is on the roof!

Scooter had a blast with this!

They all had a great time....

and didn't even eat all the left-over candy : )

I have to say it was pretty tasty, too!

Snorkie-isms

My darling Snorkie is quite a chatter-box these days...

in his OWN way, of course!

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Noticing a stinkie "behind",

Lovey asked him the other night when he was going

to use the potty instead of his diaper...

He turned to his dad and replied:

"Not Tonight!"...

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Snorkie discovered the joy of Bingo on our vacation...

He regularly informs me in the morning:

"This is a good day for Bingo!"...

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At around noon everyday he gets upset

if we haven't had "Narnsch"...

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Lately, his favorite expression is "O my, gosh"...

only it comes out as "O me darsh"...

with something of the Irish about it : )

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Scooter has a book that shows the insides of a

Bengal Tiger in layered pages,

and Snorkie is fascinated by it...

Asking about the "stuff" inside, daddy told him

that they were the tigers organs...

"Oh, Morgans...I see", he says...

He refuses to say it any other way...

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Usually, if I look sweetly at him and say:

"I Love you so much, Snorkie",

He will look back and say:

"I wuv You too, mommy"...

One night while taking a bath, I inhaled deeply

and he said: "I wuv You too!"...

I wasn't even going to say it, but I loved it anyway!

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The next morning, Snorkie heard me leave my room,

He called, "you can come in mommy"... ugh.

I went in, snuggled a little and rubbed his little back.

Looking sweetly at him, I said,

"I Love you Soooooo much, snorkie."

Looking deeply into my eyes,

with his cutest morning voice,

he replied: "I love............

TO PICK MY NOSE.

Ok, I almost fell off the bed with that one...

the kid just cracks me up!

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Happy day everyone & God Bless!

Further Developements...

This Photo of Seeker Man, Scooter, Tilly & Snorkie

was taken on Thanksgiving Day 2006.

I love to see the way the little ones

have so much love and enthusiasm for

their big brother.

They have all been very excited about the

prospect of a new baby brother or sister.

Unfortunately,

that won't be as soon as we had hoped.

Our new baby was not meant to join us

here in this life,

we look forward to meeting her someday...

along with our other baby girl that we

lost to miscarriage about six years ago.

I am doing alright physically...

emotionally is a little tough.

But I look up at those smiling faces

in that photograph at the top of the post,

and just CAN'T feel sorry for myself.

God's Plan ALWAYS trumps My Plan,

and He has been SO Gracious to me that I can

only hand myself over to Him to do His Will.

The kids are doing OK, but we are all sad.

We look forward with the hope that

we will go on to have another baby

(or babies?)

if God wishes us do do so.

Pray for Us, Please.