Thirty

I can't believe that this little bald headed baby is turning thirty years old today!


And is now all grown up and driving trains!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

A few weeks ago I was washing the kitty blankets and it brought back memories of Joseph and his blanket, his special blanket that went everywhere with him, usually hung around his neck like a scarf. We went to visit a friend one day and of course blanket went with us, but he forgot blanket at the friend's house and we had to turn around and GO GET BLANKET! MY BLANKET!

Yes, he grew out of having to have blanket with him all the time. He does not drive trains with blanket looped around his neck.

Happy Birthday Joe!

Okay, I know it's a day late, but not forgotten. Having an easy date to remember helps, even if I have to count on my fingers (and toes) and then back to my fingers again to figure out how old you are. I'm hoping I got it right, since you were born on 9/18/81 that would be 29 years ago, right? You were supposed to be born a few days earlier, on the 16th I think, but the doctor had to go play golf or something that day so he rescheduled our caesarian for the 18th. I was trying to remember what day of the week it was (a Friday maybe?) I just know it wasn't on a weekend because they don't schedule things like that on a weekend.

Anyway, Happy Birthday one day late, and you've only got one year left of your twenties, so make the most of it!



This picture might be a little embarrassing but nobody can say that you didn't have your own unique sense of style!

I Almost Forgot!

Happy Birthday Son!

I was sitting here at the computer paying the bills online and had to write out a couple of doctor bill checks and realized what the date was. September 18! It's Joe's birthday! And I'm a lousy mother because I almost forgot!

Then when I realized what the date was I wrote 9/18/81 on the check that I was in the middle of writing out. Good thing I caught that before I put it in the envelope. 9/18/81 is a very convenient date to have your birthday on, isn't it? Today's date works pretty well, too, 9/18/09. So, Happy 28th, Joe! Damn, I feel old now!

So, 28 years ago today a little mostly peach fuzz headed baby was born. We didn't realize we had a redhead until that peach fuzz started growing in a little. Back then, we weren't warned about putting our babies on their stomachs, something that I guess isn't done today, but as you can see by this picture, they even did it in the hospital.

We didn't have a camera back then, so the official family photographer, the only one of us that did have a camera, was my sister Linda, and she took this photo through the window to the nursery. None of this having your baby in the room with you and letting family in your room to see the baby back then, they kept those kids all bundled up and sterile and only brought them out at feeding time.

Joe was born by c/section, so we didn't go home until he was 5 days old. Here's big sister Jennifer with her new baby brother.

I don't have very many baby pictures of either kid, like I said we had no camera and digital cameras had yet to be invented, along with home computers to do your digital pictures on. If you had a camera, you still had to take all those rolls of film down to be developed and it was always interesting to see if any of your pictures were even worth keeping.

Here is Joe on his first birthday, I think the cake was chocolate.


He was a happy little boy!