HAPPY
SIXTEENTH
BIRTHDAY
WEE MAN 

!!!

You are a lovely young man.

Taller than Dad now

( and more hair ! )

I guess we start calling you

BIG MAN

!!!

Sixteen years ago at eight in the morning,

hubby & I dropped Jess of at my good friend's 

and drove to Poole hospital.

I was all prepared for Bournemouth

and a birthing pool

but as the baby was two weeks late,

I had to go to Poole for some reason. 

I had a chest infection

so wasn't allowed drugs !

I had gas and air tho and needed it-

Joe was nearly ten pounds !!!

A long skinny baby.

Joe arrived at twenty four minutes past five

& when the midwife asked hubby to tell me

if it was a boy or girl,

he spoke with great emotion,

" It's Joe "

Hubby drove the forty minutes home to collect Jess.

On the way back to the hospital

they bought some flowers & chocolates from a petrol station.

The flowers soon wilted

& Jess totally ignored her little brother

and ate all the chocs !

Hubby took her back home that night

& I had left a little cradle with a new doll in it.

Jess flung the doll out

saying

" Get rid of that "

and put her little pink rabbit " Auf " in the cradle.

Jess  never was a doll person

but when he came home,

she adored her little brother.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 

JOE
XXXX