Dearest Quincy,

Today is your eighth birthday, and your second birthday in heaven. Oh how we miss you, every moment of every day.

We’re doing our best to follow our family tradition of celebrating your birthday with your favorite meals. Breakfast looks like it will be poppy-seed bagels with cream cheese, lox, capers, red onion, and tomatoes. The boys will probably hold on the lox, capers, red onion and tomatoes. They still need you to teach them what is good in life! Your meal tonight is still under discussion. However, we’ve agreed on strawberry brownie sundaes for dessert, with extra strawberries on the side for our sweet birthday girl.

Life would be so great and so easy if you could still be sitting at the head of our table, with that sparkle in your eye, that infectious laugh and that quick wit that kept Brody and Keenan on their toes. We remember it and we feel it, we just need to see you and touch you and hear you, one more time, again and again and again. We do know though, in a special way, that you are still right here with us.

Our family continues to be blessed with much love and kindness from those near and far. We think your love for each precious day of life helped many people realize what is truly important in their own lives.
We know it has for us.

Happy Birthday Sweetheart.

Love,

Mom, Dad, Brody & Keenan