Happy Birthday Andy!

Today is Andy's eighteenth birthday!

He was born five days after hurricane Hugo came. Although they were tempted, Mommy and Daddy stuck to the original plan, and did not name him Hugo! Andy and Mommy stayed in the hospital for a few days, and when they came home they didn't have any power since all the power lines had been knocked down by the trees that Hugo blew over! The power finally came on three weeks later!

During the storm, Mommy thought she was in labour and wanted to go to the hospital, but they couldn't because there was a hurricane. When it finally got light, Daddy took Mommy to the hospital. There were trees and houses and stuff all in the road. They said it took about an hour to get to the hospital that was usually only minutes away!

Along the way, Mommy saw a house that appeared to have no damage at all, and she commented to Daddy how it was remarkable that the house sustained no damage in the middle of all this destruction! Upon further inspection, however, they discovered that the house was not there the day before, and had actually been blown in by the storm from somewhere else. I would have thought that the ruby slippers and shrivelled legs protruding from beneath the house would have been some kind of indication!

When they got to the hospital, they could watch TV and see all the damage all over the state. They said Mommy was not in labour, and she had to go back home!

Doctor Townsend said she could come back on the 27th, and he would make the baby come.
But, after about thirteen hours, he couldn't make the baby come, so they took Mommy into the operating room, and they went in and got the baby! Daddy said he couldn't get out on his own because he probably broke something!

So now he's eighteen.

This is a photo of him giving Jonathan a 'wedgie'.

Mommy and Daddy said he could pick anywhere he wanted to go to eat this Saturday, so of all the endless possibilities, he picked the Olive Garden. The food is good there but Daddy said Olive Garden is real Italian like Sonny's is real Barbecue! Sorry Sonny, but you had to have already known...

I'll take lots of pictures of the food and give a full report next week. Look out Andy! You're Blog fodder now!!!!!

9-28-07 -- Extra!

I made Andy a cake yesterday...



~Hon!