happy birthday to you! happy birthday to you! happy birthday UNCLE TALOOOOOOOOO...HAPPY BIRRRRRRRTHDAY TOOOOOOO YEWWWWWOOOOOO! if there's one thing that my mommy's side of the family loves...it's when my daddy treats for dinner. well, we went out to celebrate my uncle talo's birthday last week.
as you can see my uncle talo is gaining some of his weight back as he continues his battle with cancer. i LOVE that my uncle talo LOVES to play with me. we have our own terms that we use between he and i. i'm not sure that my uncle talo knows about my parents wanting me to hear how words really sound. hmmmm...
...my uncle's whole name is Falemalama Taloesea Mapuoletuli. i know...what a LONG one...huh? when my uncle was born my grammy actually wrote his name on his birth certificate as Taloesea (her brother) Falemalama (my granpa's brother) Mapuoletuli. unknown to my grammy, my grandpa changed my uncle's name on his paperwork to the name that he carries today - Falemalama Taloesea Mapuoletuli. my grammy didn't know what my grandpa did so when her side of the family asked for my uncle's name, she told him the name she "thought" was his. when my grandpa's side of the family asked him what my uncle's name was, he told them the name he changed it to. so to this day, my mommy's side still calls my uncle, Talo and my grandpa's side still calls my uncle, Fale. my mommy told me that that is what you call "repercussion" to the max!
uncle talo...do i get to taste your birthday dessert? it's lookin' REALLY good!
that's my uncle talo and yolanda posing with me. i was distracted by the yummy food on the table. my mommy said that it tasted YUMMMMY! i guess i'll find out when i'm older...huh?
my grammy and i are NEVER too busy to pose for a photo.
these are the employees of the restaurant who sang happy birthday to my uncle.
