ELEVEN

Wow. Tatym is eleven. It seems she is well on her way to teenagehood. She is an awesome girl. She is sweet, responsible, smart, pretty, and throughly enjoyable. Her birthday was awesome. She picked the activites. We shopped, went and ate at Cheesecake Factory, then went to the Hotel for swimming. But oops, somebody forgot her swimsuit! Not me, actually it was Tatym, so we had to rig up the one I was going to squish my fat belly into for her...she was a little skeptical, but it all worked out. Except for the fact that I didn't get to swim...oh darn. Then it was off to the Blue Cow for yogurt and cupcakes. By then, exhaustion set in, so I took her friend Bailey home, and Coop and I went home to crash. Dad and the kids went back to the hotel for more festivities though I hear Dad and Pip fell asleep long before Tatym and Josh. It was a typical Dudley Family Birthday...(we don't do friend parties every year, so we gotta make em good) We were all partied out by the next night...it was perfect.