Saturday, November 26, 2005
Grandpapa's 80th Birthday
Gina ordered Dr. Martin's favorite restaurant food, Chef Chu's, in honor of his 80th birthday today. Although he wasn't able to eat solid foods again today, we had a wonderfully happy birthday cake singing and candle blowing event at his bedside; his smile couldn't have been wider. Here's Grace building her multi-level track, and Joe and Nate doing the "choo!-choo!" train locomotion. Although it's hard leaving all the brothers at the home working with the hospice, we plan on taking a day to do a train ride to Palo Alto tomorrow. Nate and Julie have both amazing with their flexibility in spending days at the Martins and showing huge amounts of love to Grandpapa Martin during this difficult time.