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Philips 8th birthday



Today is our son Philips 8th birthday. He was found in central Thailand
when he was a baby. Someone in the government gave him a Jan 1st
birthday. About 9 months before we adopted him, my mom had a dream. In
the dream she basically saw that our next child was born on Oct 17th.
The dream was in April of 2000. She did not know we wanted to adopt.
Anyway, to make a long story short, Philip was found in Nov. 1998. He
was only a few months old when he was found. He was probably born in
Sept or Oct of 1998. This is why we are giving him the Oct. 17th birthday. Today Philip got a punching bag and boxing gloves as a gift. He also got some teenage mu tent Ninja turtles
action figures. He and Thomas are in their bedroom playing with the new
toys, and are very loud! We will give Philip and Thomas a joint
birthday party in Dec. We decided to wait until then, because its a new
school year...and they are just now making new friends. We thought it
would be best to wait until they had clear friendships , and knew who
they wanted to invite. There is a video of our first year with Philip
on our Photo blog. Happy Birthday Philip!!!

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
- Alan Minter, Boxer

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