Happy Birthday to Brad

 

October 22, 2023

Dear Family:

I wasn’t going to write this week, but today is Brad’s birthday.  McKay was born on 23^rd, Monday,  (on William Schnell’s -Brad’s grandpa-  birthday (October 23).   Tuesday the 24th is Glennda’s birthday.  Coincidentally my dad, Glenn Short was born on October 21- he would be 104.  Their family moved from Far West Utah (near Ogden) when he was 1 month old, to Heyburn Idaho.  All their possessions were on a rail car.  So many birthdays!!! So much to know!!!

 

So a bit about memories of Brad; I told Brad yesterday that Aunt Judy got a ticket while she was driving to the hospital to see Brad after he was born.  While I was pregnant, I had knitted him a little sweater (it was white and green).  Back then you never knew if you were having a girl or boy, so I thought I was safe with white and green.  It fit him for about 1 week.  So then I knitted him another blue sweater and cap that he wore for a much longer time.  I remember taking a photo of him in the sweater in front of our duplex when we lived on 57^th in the top half of a house when he was just walking.  Brad learned to count after he learned to walk and talk as we climbed the stairs to our home.

Brad was adventurous and fearless.  I had to keep his hand in mine always so that he wouldn’t run away.  His grandmother Schnell gave him a yellow blanket when he was born.  It had yellow satin thick binding around it and he was attached to that and his pacifier.  I had been trying to get him to toss the pacifier.  When he was about 2, we were driving home from Gresham and he spotted cows in the field.  I suggested that he give his pacifier to the cows and he threw it out the window.  That was a tough night, but he never wanted it again.

Aunt Judy bought him a little blue plastic horse with red wheels that he loved to ride around the house on.  He thinks I broke a wooden spoon on him, trying to get him to mind me,  but I really whacked the horse so that it would scare him into minding.  But the spoon broke.  He is convinced to this day that I broke it on him.  I remember he had diarrhea all one summer when we lived across the street from Normandale Park.  The little blue horse got washed frequently. Finally the doctor found something that stopped it and we were all thankful.  Brad had a lot of ear infections and colds.  Back then they put tubes in toddlers’ ears to stop ear infections, but Brad’s doctor wouldn’t do it.  So he has hearing loss now as a result.  Well enough about Brad…… (Except…… you need to know that Brad took his cousin Haley to the Senior Prom.  I thought that was terrific.)

Happy Birthday McKay and Glennda!

Glennda is being held by her dad Glenn Short. I would guess that this is Spring 1952 ? 

Thank you Kenlee….for posting all the photos of your family’s outings.  I love them.  Thanks Riley for posting Cole at the Las Vegas airport.  Thanks Brad for the calls.  Love them.  Thanks Hayden for helping me decide on the right cords for my iPhone to buy on Amazon.  Thanks Glennda and Scott for the wonderful lunch at Spaghetti factory on Friday. 

I love you all.

Family first.

Love Mom, Grandma, Great Grandma, Sister and Aunt Suzanne