is sweet Sixteen

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Hi everyone, as long as we're all being so joyous and sad at the same time

I had to write to tell you all that's how I feel today. Little baby - all 4

feet of her is 16 today. We can't believe it. I ran out to get stuff that she

loves from the dollar store and got balloons and found a couple of videos and

stuff and I just couldn't help feeling that yearly bittersweet depression. Even

her PCA who takes care of her 4 days a week for a year didn't even bring her a

dang card or anything. Of course we gave her $50 for her birthday and $100 for

her recent wedding but NO I'm not resentful. I guess this is why I have a hard

time feeling anyone would ever care for her as much as we do.

Anyway jamie does love when we sing the happy birthday song to her which

we will do all day; then we have to stick some candles in one of her hot dogs or

something so we can sing and blow them out over and over again. I am sooooooo

tempted to let her have some spaghetti or french fries as a treat but I'm afraid

of how sick she'll be tomorrow.

She has really been in a bad way ever since that oct 15 surgery- then

after dan posted about Augmentin I remembered she had gone on a run of Augmentin

at the same time and I looked up the high uric acid, ammonia connection and

we're now checking to see if she has a kidney stone. She keeps taking all her

clothes off and acting like she's jumping out of her skin. And she had that darn

period for 10 days straight. Holy Moley. it's always been only a couple of days.

I just wanted to tell the whole world how much I love her and admire her

and thank God for putting her in our lives for all these years. She's so

beautiful- when she is sleeping her face looks exactly like she did when I first

laid eyes on her. I can't imagine she has grown up so much. 16 looked so far

away for so long and here it is. I'm gonna go give her a smooch so she can tell

me " byebyebye " (translation- get outta my room mom:-)

Love you guys,

Sherry