Happy Birthday to Stephen and Omar
So is Kellie going to continue the tradition that Sue started, fixing whatever the birthday boy wants for dinner? Or instead, is Sue going to keep doing that and just add Kellie to the mix now too? When is Kellie's birthday?
I can't say I remember this day 23 years ago but I do remember coming to visit y'all in England four months later and you were a perfect baby. So easy going and precious. My sister and I fought over you endlessly. You probably weighed more than half our weight but we carried you around anyway.
I do remember your first birthday though. It was at Grandma's house and I think Bobette made a clown cake for you. We have loads of pictures. You were so cute. You dove right into the cake and loved it, it was all over you. The whole family was packed into our tiny kitchen and you did not disappoint. I don't think we could have asked for a more perfect first grandchild.
Have a great birthday, Stephen.
Well, yes, I do remember the day you were born. It started in the small hours of the morning when we received a call that "we're on our way to the hospital." A very exciting call that we weren't quite expecting because it was a couple of weeks early. Also, I never heard of notifying people in the middle of the night that "we're on our way." In my family, the call to my mother was "you have a grandson." A call, in other words, after the fact. I went to work on time and then waited and waited for the next call. I came home from work and waited some more. But finally, we got the word we were waiting for: a boy, Stephen Scott. And then, three days later, we received a Polaroid of the one-hour old perfect little boy and Grandpa drove all the way into town to show me the picture so I wouldn't have to wait till I got home.
Happy Birthday to you, Stephen Scott: a perfect little boy grown to a perfect man.
I remember that first birthday, too. It wa supposedly the first time Stephen ever had anything with sugar in it. Am I remembering that correctly? Happy Birthday, Stephen. And Omar, too.
Happy Birthday Stephen! Did you get my card? Did you have a birthday dinner? How's graduate school going?
Happy Birthday, Stephen!! I hope you have a lot of fun today.
Happy Birthday, Omar!! What year is this for you?
Stephen is celebrating tonight in Milledgeville. I talked to him earlier and Kellie is making him crabcakes for dinner. She tried to serve him breakfast in bed, but he came into the kitchen before it was through. We will celebrate here with the meal of his choosing whenever he tells me they can come to town. Both he and Kellie are in graduate school and will be kept VERY busy until June. Kellie is teaching full time, as well. Stephen will work if he is able. He has a flexible boss that said he will put him to work whenever Stephen is available.
I remember Stephen's birth well! He had to write a page about his birth for a senior project and he incorrectly documented the hours I spent in labor and I threatened to white it out and correct it myself. He said something to the effect, "After 6 hours of labor, he was born." I'd like credit for every one of the 20 unmedicated hours, thank you.
I went into labor at midnight on a Friday, only two hours after returning home from my natural childbirth class. We hadn't even covered everything because there were two classes left. I had not packed yet because he wasn't due for two more weeks. As it turned out, we certainly did not have to rush to the hospital because it was a long wait. We called both of our parents and then the neighbors told us that our phone rang off the wall all of the next day. We probably should have waited, but it was our first child and we didn't know any better. Also, we WERE in another country!
Happy Birthday, my sweet big boy!
Also, Happy Birthday to Omar!!
Happy Birthday Stephen! I hope you enjoyed the day...doing all the chores around the house. What a good husband! I love you!
Happy Birthday Stephen, I had no idea that you shared a birthday with Omar. It was Omar's 18th birthday!! He came into this world exactly ten years to the day that his father arrived in the United States. In fact when I called Hyder home from work because "it was time" he sat down to a plate of tuna casserole before we left for the hospital. It just so happened tuna casserole was the first meal he was served in the US.
Omar finished summer classes and he'll have one semester before he graduates then he's planning on attending college. He'll study computers but he's not exactly sure in what specific area.
The last four years have been quite challenging for Omar and I am very proud of how he's turning things around. He's off all his meds and is trying to learn to "live with the pain".
Congratulations Omar!
Love, Mom
I recall Stephen's birth story. There was a part in it where the doctor with halitosis got in Sue's face and told her she had to hush now. She was supposedly (involuntarily probably) causing commotion in the ward with her disorderly conduct. What a confident mother she always was. She knew what to do and how to do it from the get-go. You were so adorable. It was almost painful that you were so far away. You adapted fast to all the fighting people trying to hold you when you first came to town when you were one. We just about ate you up.
I hope you got my card, Stephen. Happy belated birthday. It is my way to be late, which I don't like and am apologetic about.
Also, a happy belated to Omar. Isn't that something for you two to share the same birthday? Sue and Janice are months apart in birth - both having their first borns on the same day - 5 years apart. Blessed be.
I forgot to wish Omar a happy birthday. I hope the pain subsides enough for him to enjoy his birthday! I always feel so sorry hearing about his chronic pain. He's too young for that!
Well, my mom pretty much summed up most of my day up in her epic above, but Kellie did take wonderful care of me today. She prepared eggs, hashbrowns, and biscuits with sausage and gravy for breakfast...yum. Then we have a new recipe for crab cakes that we love, and she made those for dinner. We finished the night with half a movie, Spanglish. From what I saw (before Kellie started falling asleep), it looks like a good movie.
Thanks ya'll for remembering my birthday...you made it that much more special. And Happy Birthday to Omar! (This now makes three people that I now know, who share my birtday.)
We finished the Spanglish last night and it was no good!
I liked Spanglish. I hope you haven't inherited your mother's taste in films, Stephen.
Happy Belated Birthday, Stephen! I remember your first birthday as well. It was your first taste of ice cream too, and you loved that. Your Mother didn't want you to have too much of it, because it truly was your first tastes of sugar and she was worried that you would go into sugar shock!
Happy 18th Birthday to you, Omar! Good luck in school this year. I hope when you do decide what you want to do with computers that whatever it is will be FUN! You deserve a fun career after all you've been through!
I liked Spanglish too. I loved Tea Leoni, she was so good! Adam Sandler seems like a sweet guy.
I liked Spanglish enough, but I thought it got really corny towards the end. Kellie & I kept waiting for something to happen, and then it just got akward when Sandler cooked for her. It was worth watching, but not a second time.
As far as movie taste is concerned, I actually WATCH movies, which puts me no where near my mom! However, Kellie & I did watch Finding Neverland and really liked it. My mom said she hated it, but Christina and Aunt Katie loved it.
Hey guys happy birthday. And to Lars and Katie as well. I've managed to miss them all(including Amys).
Hey Kev,
Missed them all and stretched yours out for several weeks. See if you can hook me up with your agent.