thanks for the story of your first adventures with Patticakes. I hope to see pictures every month so we can watch her grow, she is just beautiful Papi !! Makes me want to run out and get another puppy in my life.. not sure JD would want to share his 3 beds (Townhouse with 3 floors) though.. ha..ginger

I love the smile on Patticakes face at the springs. Papi, you thank all of us at YT for all we have done for you but I (and I am sure others) thank you for being the wonderful giving and kindhearted Papi that you are. Your words make me smile and live in the moment with you. Please continue to keep us all updated with your wonderful words and pictures. You are truly an amazing gift from God to all of us at YT. Patty

Thank you Papi!!
 

Oh Papi! you really have a way with words and expressing your feelings. I am amazed at the details that you recall. I can't even remember what i had for b'fast! LOL!! What a wonderful God-given gift you have!! We LOVE hearing your stories and that picture of you and PC kissing is just priceless! You have GOT to frame that!! :D
Thanks again for sharing your heart and soul with us!!
HUGS! XOXOXO
...Linda

Oh my, she has gotten so big in these past 2 weeks. Looks like she is very happy being a Jersey Girl (2 weeks on Sat.)!

Let your talking do the typing
 

Good day my dear friend Lori,

That's was very kind of you, a Pro though :rolleyes: I honestly don't think so, though so thoughful of you to say, I do appreciate it.

Some years ago I tried what your Dad is doing, I was or attempted to use AOL's Point and Speak by Dragon, and to be honest with you it was more difficult, and time consuming to set up, use than one would imagine, you had to train this thing, I think my time would have been better spent learning how to type, for some reason or other the program just couldn't pick up on my Jersey diction, sound of my voice, hope your Dad is doing better with it than I did, it would be great if it worked without the glitches, as it's supposed to, then again maybe today they work better, in any event the story telling appears to have come to a screeching halt with the conclusion of the Patticake Train I'm sorry to say, been so quiet now on this thread, I'm feeling very downhearted, I know I shouldn't as you my friends indeed accomplished what this Patticake Train (thread) set out to do, of course that was to make Papi whole again by putting Patticake into my arms, I am truly very happy, grateful now having Patticake, but with this ending I strangly feel a loss, I miss all of you, true I'm sure I will I see you in other threads, making your post but it just won't be the same.

Love :hearts-xx and :kiss4: to you and Bre

from Papi & Patticake.

Oh Papi please don't stop writing for us. The first book is over but please start another....maybe Patticakes Progress or something. Please don't let it end. Patty

Oh, I agree with Patti - I would like to read something from you everyday! What you and Patticake did that day, how she is responding to your loving care, how you are responding to her loving care! We won't be bored. We're not done with this either! We still feel good everytime we see a picture or hear a little more. See how many are checking in to the last page every day? We care about you two even if we weren't a part of the train.
((((Hugs))))
Kathy

I look forward to your updates, Papi and PattiCake. This is a wonderful, ongoing "slice of life". Please keep sharing with us.

Hey everybody can you give me a "P", give me an "A", and another "P", now give me an "I"...What's that spell...PAPI!!! We're here to cheer you on! I know the stories are in your head and in your heart...You just have to put them on YorkieTalk, we're here to read them, to listen to them and to enjoy them. How is our little girl doing, have you been teaching her the butt dance? I know, Kassie had it down pat...she truly had a gift. But what has Patticake done to make you smile today...come on you can tell us, I'm sure there's plenty to smile about!!!
Seriously Papi, I want to be the first adoptee to wish you a "HAPPY FATHERS DAY"!!! I'm a little sad that my dad is no longer with us, but at the same time, I'm thrilled to have you in my life...So I pray you have a wonderful day...and give my little sister Patticake a kiss from me, and I'll say a little prayer to Kassie, that she continues to watch over you and love you from afar, just as my dad is watching over me and loves me. Bless you Papi for being you!!!

I'm not certain that Papi ever saw this picture, I hope he did, but I did not see an acknowledgement, perhaps I missed it, or perhaps it was private.

It is amazing Debbie, I know you spent so much time on it, you have such talent, reaches right down to the the depths of the heart........just beautiful.....

Thank you. I dont think papi has seen the last few pictures I had made and posted. but I hope when he catches all up he will. I have one last picture and I think it had turned out the best so far, It is in Thanking God for all the answered prayers he did here. I went to email it and My compyer went down. So I dont know when ill be able to send it or post it. I have been having so much bad luck and not to go off topic here , But my family can sure use everyones prayers. Im useing my daughter computer to night and dont know when My will be fixed. or when ill be back, but some way I will get that picture here, I just dont know when.
http://yorkietalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83322
I have to go now, But Im hoping to keep my daughters computer over the week end. if so ill stop in again. take care.

Yes - your pictures on here were just gorgeous...as were all of Papi's beautifully written posts! I haven't posted on this thread much, but I've followed it the whole way through, and it has been such a touching story. I LOVE that picture of Patticake kissing Papi! It melts my heart.

Just a poster
 

A happy Papi/Patticake day my friends,

I must begin with an apology to all of you my dear friends, I know many have said there isn't any need to apologize, and appreciate the reasoning for your thoughtfulness, but it is imperative for me that I do, as you have responded so many time's to this Patticake thread with so much love, and your many kind and encouraging words of support, not only for me and Patticake but for all the dear friends who were in the forefront of making Patticake a reality, I must tell you how sorry I am, how terrible I feel that I didn't reply to each and everyone of you personally throughout much of this journey of love we have all taken togeather, I am sincerely ashamed as you were all certainly deserving of the courtesy and respect, and I feel I failed you there, I'm very sorry my friends, maybe as there won't be so many post in one thread in the future, I will be able to keep up, and give you the common courtesy of a reply, please forgive Papi.

Something that remains out standing in my mind, and as appreciative as I may be for all the praises, accolades you have so kindly bestowed upon my writting, and story telling it has been a little embarrasing for me, and very humbling, may I please explain why, I wish to be as honest and forthright with you as possible, first of all I wouldn't even know how to lay out a story properly, all I do is write what I think and feel, never looked at it as a story, just another post even so, befor the whole world, and ashamedly I am going to give you some truth's about Papi's abilities, as some of you have thought I may be a teacher, a professor, or some other honorable profession, and if not you feel I should be, and I thank you, I am honored believe me but the truth of the matter is I am not qualified to be in the same leaque with these talented people, for one Papi's future to have a career in any field has somewhat diminished because of my advanced year's, then on top of that, due to some stupid, wrong choices in my early life as a teenager, young man, I don't have much of an education to speak of, I sorrowfully confess to you, I left school a half year into the 10th grade, and even when I attended school, English and Grammer were my worst subject's, I didn't know a verb from a prounoun, an adjective from and adverb, never mind understanding what a present participle was, and when it come's to punctuation's in my post, now don't laugh, Ok, I don't mind, it is laughable but the truth is I just throw them in where I think they might go, or it looks good, just never got it sadly, nor do I this very day, then about 6 months after leaving school I enlisted in the Army at the ripe old age of 17, after serving 3 years active service, I did a mandatory 6 more years in reserves, I received an honorable discharge in January 1958, I then decided I was going to take a year off befor finding employment, I needed a long rest after my service, in 1960 I found employment with a national brewer of beer, my title, occupation was brewer, where I remained until 1973 when they went out of business, now what do I do, I didn't have an education, fortunately the Veterans Administration paid for and sent me to a tractor trailer driving school in Brooklyn, NY, where upon completion I was now a bonified Tranportation Engineer as we tarctor trailer driver's prefer to call ourselves, rather than truck driver, 18 wheeler, as it has such a educated ring to it, in our minds an elevated status, my friends I must inform you this is only pun, though when someone asked me what I did for a living, I would jokingly tell them I was a Transportation Engineer, don't you just love it ? :)

To truck on, I drove for 26 years until I retired, I can only tell you my friends, I was not happy being a tractor trailer driver all these years, I honestly detested it, my only consolation was back then one could make great money, and the benifits were unsurpassed in the trucking industry, at least in my union it was true, they even paid for glasses, and all dental, including braces which both my daughter's ended up needing, I had the opportunity to support my family well and pay the mortgage, this was my first trucking employer, my second outfit which I was employed with for my last 14 years, sadly gave no benifits, except hospitalization which we had to pay into, the way it is now with most companies but I was greatful for the hospitalization of course, the only other positive with this employer was the last year or so they permitted me to bring, and have Kassie Kisses as my co-pilot, and she loved it, I'm sure not many of you can boast you had a "Truckin Yorkie" I guess I could say this was the happiest, and the highlight of my trucking career.

Now you ask, why is Papi divuldging so much personal information ? it's because for one I want to be honest with you my friends, the other is to let you know I don't have any particular talent or professional abilities which qualify me to be a writter or story teller as much as I appreciate your kind words, your love, the many high praises, and the accolades you bestowed upon me which I feel, I surely am not deserving of, the wonderful and true talented writter's here are Lauren and Corinne, I so admire their beautiful writting skill's, they are the ones who deserve the praises, the accolades without any doubt, I only wish I could in fact write as well, I mean a true writter as without a doubt these friends are.

Please my friends this is no intent on my part to offend anyone, I do sincerely appreciate all the kind things you attribute to my writting, you obviously see something in it I don't, and I've just tried to explain why I don't, please, I hope no one gets upset with me nor think I'm being un-appreciative, I'm just a poster, not a writter.

I would just like to add a note which may be of some interest, I have Patticake 2 weeks today, and you probably won't believe what I'm about to tell you, in just these two weeks she is just about fully potty trained, she does all her poops outside now, she only occasionaly will widdle on a pad but that also she prefers to do outside, she is absolutley phenomenal, so unusually smart for such a young age, I believe I've had such good progress with her potty training as for one I'm retired, and have the opportunity to take her for long walks frequently during the day or anywhere else I go, the grass has become her favorite wee wee pad thankfully, she is just so amazing, thank you Brenda for such a smart baby, thank you my friends for making it all possible, when I think I can't love Patticake anymore than I do, she will alway's find something new to surprise me with, put a smile on my face or laugh hysterically, she is just so very precious, just as your babies are for you also, I love her so very much my friends.

Papi & Patticake thank you so much my friends for the wonderful blessing you have given us, thank you very much.

Goodnight our friends.

Papi & Patticake.

Oh Papi, no apology is neccesary! You are a wonderful man, with a wonderful heart and soul, and that is what we love so much about you. I, along with others find your writing to be incredible, and I hope you don't mind that I continue to praise your writing talent! In your case, and many others, education and grammar have proven to be unneccesary, because your writing is so successful in getting accross the emotions that you feel, and the experiences you have had, in such a powerful way. I enjoy your 'posting' so much, and will always read your stories with pleasure!

I am so glad that Patticake is doing well, and I pray that her training continues to go on excellently! You two have many happy years to come, so I am relieved to hear that the first two weeks indicate that there is a promising future to come! :D

I could of not said it better, and i wish i could write just half as good. I am not good with words. I will too love to read your stories, and we love to hear the stories about Patticake. Sounds like you two having a grand ol time ! And what a smart little girl she is. Keep the Stories coming, we are all ears and eyes when you post ;)
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