Woo Hoo Happy Birthday Dobie's Baby Girl <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Just watch HOW fast it all goes!! One minute I was holding this bright blue eyed little angle in my arms and now we are watching her look at wedding dresses........ sigh <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />
pity they learn to speak and answer back......LOL you just watch & see Dobie <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
Oh and the fav word is NO...heh heh heh <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

Thanks aussie2. My son is almost seven, so I've learned way too much about "No". There's a book called "No David" by David Shannon that summed up my life with DS perfectly. It's about a little boy who is told NO all day long.

Now I just have to figure out what to get her today. (I'm a procrastinator) I'll probably get her a toy, but I'm betting that she'd prefer a box of tissue, a remote control, my telephone, some cardboard boxes, and a pint of Chunky Monkey. Those are her favorite things.

Adding:

The tragedy seen over there is almost unbelievable at times...those missing are in my thoughts and prayers, as are the family members and friends who are left to pick up the pieces and attempt moving on. Liny (I think?) is right, I haven't felt this saddened over loss of lives since 9/11...the devastation seen to property here, during the 4 hurricanes that hit this summer was nothing in comparison to the hundreds and thousands of lives lost in this horrible turn of nature. God help those people, give them comfort for their grieving souls, amen.

What kind of angle is she?

acute, right, obtuse, straight, reflex? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

LOVE the no editing rule!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

I love buying things for my kids when little..I always bought my son from age 1 a train set, because he NEEDED one really

Dobie,

Parents (magazine) makes toys. They have cell phones, car keys etc. that all make noise. The cell phone is pretty cool because you can record your voice into it. My S turned 1 in November. He's not fooled by them but plays with them to keep Daddy happy!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

You can get them at Target.

My MIL got her a little toy cell phone, but you're right, they do know the difference.

And I'm the worst one for getting the kids toys that I like. My inner child is a real whiner.

I like the new sesame st figures that sing & dance but AW won't buy one for me <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />

So I had to buy some for the new little niece, cutie if I ever saw one. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

As the town PR rep, allow me to wax on poetically for a spell....

It is all about love.

I think as human beings we were designed to love. We can get philosophical, spiritual, whatever, but utlimately, isn't that what THIS is all about?

Things taste better when we are in love. Suddenly, we can hear birds chirping. The air just smells cleaner. We have more energy on less sleep. We stand taller. The skylines paint pictures we could not see before. All our favorite songs are on the radio. We start having continuous AWESOME HAIR DAYS! Each morning brings with it a sense of promise and hope and joy.

We see the greater good of humanity, the inherent goodness of people, God's delicate touch of love as He designed the races, faces, smiles of the people around us. We are more patient. Forgiving. Tolerant.

It must be this concept of reaching something bigger than us, yet, so much a part of who we are made to be as human beings, that makes romantic love so compelling.

Parental love is beautiful...I cannot relate to the pain and agony of losing a child. My children make me laugh and give me an awesome sense of purpose. They have been the one thing that have MADE me keep going when I wanted to stop being on this planet. Likewise, being a daughter, I can bask in the love that my parent's so willing share with me. It feels safe to be a loved, blessed child of two wonderful parents.

Friendly-love is fun. I enjoy laughing and playing practical jokes on my friends. They keep my days eventful, and are a great place to seek beauty advice and commiserate about men. And, they work to keep me up when I do not feel like being there, holding me accountable when I don't feel like being accountable.

But romantic love, that soul to soul, heart to heart, mind to mind, body to body connection is something that we as humans can only top with a relationship with our Maker.

Isn't that what we are all here for? Why we are all hurting? Why we are all hoping? Why we are all searching? Why we often are lucky enough to find it.

As an admitted hopeless romantic, I marvel at how my own opinion of romantic love has changed...

The biggest change is that I have lost my perception that when someone gives me their heart, that I am now entitled to act any way I please, because, after all, if they love me, that must mean that they love me UNCONDITIONALLY. I finally have realized that is just not true. I have a commitment to treat them with greater regard, greater delicacy, greater respect, and greater care than I treat any other human being on this earth with. I guess this really applies to all who are dear and near to my heart, but especially as it relates to my mate.

To the REAL Mr. Lucky: I have loved and lost. I have had the terrible, mind-numbing experience of watching my life, family, heart tear apart. But now, I am realizing how blessed I really am. I have learned some lessons that many never have the opportunity to learn. I have learned through hard knocks the things that will enable me to have a happy, long, healthy, passionate, REAL, ever-evolving relationship with you. I will not be lost in a love with you that is cantakerous and slowly dying away, from unmet needs and unhappiness, to eventually peter out, both us left with resentment, buried pain, and an unconscious hope for something, or as we have seen, someONE else. You are lucky enough to have the educated, matured, albeit a little roughed up, but, ultimately, new and improved me.

Here's to love. Here's to life's experiences that will make that love all that much sweeter. Here is to you.

Sniff sniff...and idiotville, I love you too....

That was lovely dipiT.

DipiT: I second Dobie's opinion, but one question, is Mr. Lucky the next guy or still the last guy. Sorry I don't fully remember your situation.

Lucky is NOT eyechart, if that is what you mean.

That's what I meant, and what you said even makes more sense now. Happy New Years to you and all!!

DipiT!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

Nice to see a founding member of Idiotville!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

OKay...before Imake my first post...if I don't "cya": HAPPY NEW YEAR'S ROBBY!!!

Happy New Year Liny!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

It's ok to quit smoking on Monday!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

Good morning I-ville! (OOOOppps...it's 12:30--well, DD still woke me up--she kept telling EEma, "I lost Mommy and Daddy." Huh. Don't tell me for a minute that the children don't understand! BUT, rather than getting down, it did just the opposite: I feel warm and tingly (how gay) like I can make a difference. So, that's my outlook in 2005: I can make a good difference in lives!

dip, that *was* beautiful, hon.

Now....

{throwing the yellow flag at A2}
{showing the red card}
{Throwing him in the sin bin}
{guuter ball}
{ya fouled out}
{getting kicked in the grunties}

OK, that last one was uncalled for, but, hey, sure it happens in ARF!!! (anyway, that was starz starring in that joke!)

Haven't heard from brown yet...maybe she's actually working today! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

I'll check in later if I can. If I can't, have a great day/nite everyone!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">It's ok to quit smoking on Monday!! </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I'll still have them so I'm smokin' 'em!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by LINY:
<strong> I'll still have them so I'm smokin' 'em! </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Don't make me link to Lung Cancer pics!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />