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Dr. Demento and Late Birthday Wishes...

Thanks to my lack of interest in blogging regularly I never posted a birthday greeting for my baby brother's birthday....   How terrible am I??  Well tonight, after playing about a hundred rounds of Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook I'm feeling inspired... So this is my birthday shout-out to my brother Spencer who turned 26 on August 8....

In my earlier blog for Nelson's birthday I quoted from "Guitarzan" which was one of our favorite songs when we were kids.  Being the youngest, Spencer had the most unfortunate role however.  Nelson was always Guitarzan, and I always played the "girl named Jane with no last name."  Spencer got stuck with the part of the "pet monkey who likes to get drunky and sing boogie woogie and it sounds real funky."  He was pretty good at it really, doing the monkey solo performance during the song... He's even better at the "Drunky" part now (just kidding Mom!)...

One of our other favorite songs on that fabulous "Dr. Demento" album (besides Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-dot Bikini, and NO, we didn't make Spence dress up in a bikini, but if we'd had one in our dress-up box we would have) was "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah."  Here's a birthday version for Spence, sing along if you'd like!  (and yes, I know, it doesn't always rhyme- I took some creative license with it!)

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah,
Thanks for giving me
One more bruddah!
Spence is very entertaining
But I think we'd have more fun if he weren't puking...

at trexler by you.

We went biking in the driveway
But the stone wall got in his way
He got stitches in his forehead
So many times he should be brain dead!

em, nel, spence at bushkill park by you.


SPENCERCUTE by you.

Spence despises peanut butter
The thought of it can make him shudder
But he does love to eat pickles
And picking up a thousand pine cones for a nickel!

Spencer 1989 by you.


Spencer 1987 by you.

Now I don't want this should scare ya'
But his legos are all sorted
You remember our Aunt Cindi
She wasn't there when he fell off the swing...

Spencer and Legos by you.

Dearest Fadduh, Darling Muddah
I love my precious little bruddah
He is stubborn, much like me....
Not to mention also just like thee....

1989 phoenix trip gold panning by you.

Spence 1987 by you.

Happy Birthday, to my bruddah
You're the favorite of our fadduh
That's ok cause I still love you
But I can't get over how much that you grew!

easter 1983 by you.

Love you Spencie-Wencie!  You're the best youngest brother a girl could have.  Even when we're bickering because we're too much alike in some ways I know that we'll always have fun together... I'm proud of you and I love you!!!

Bothersome-Brother by you.

Spence--Oscraps-Album-Cover by you.

Y108C243 by you.

12-30-2008 6-12-23 PM by you.

And LP loves you too!

Love,
Big Sis Em
(and sorry this is so late!)



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