Signs of Love

Last Sunday, MyGirl reminded me that 30 April was coming up.

I had a light bulb moment for a gift for Mother.. 

Get all the grandchildren to sign HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

The pictures could be collated as a greeting for Mother.

I sent out the suggestion to the siblings.

By Monday, Mindy sent this initial collation via email 

and the message was entitled "Missing H's" 

because GI and one of his cousins had not yet given in their pictures.

By sheer coincidence, both of them were assigned the letter H.

MyGirl took several photos of GI on Wednesday and sent them to me via FB messenger.

I wanted to submit GI's picture ASAP that I just hit FORWARD to our FB family group where I knew Mindy would be able to grab the photo. I actually sent several GI photos with matching captions because they were too cute not to share.

It wasn't until the next morning when London Eye sent a message asking whether Mother accessed FB messenger that I realised I might have spoiled a perfectly good surprise.

On Thursday, Sunshine sent through the last missing grandchild H photo along with two photos of herself making what looked to me as the PEACE sign.  Her message was "Are we good now?"

On Saturday morning, MyGirl said she had something to give me. She came up to me, showed me the below picture and said, "Advanced Happy Birthday Mom!"

I was blown away!
The siblings had taken the HAPPY BIRTHDAY message a step further and added  WE LOVE YOU.

Yes, they had been plotting behind my back so I could also have a surprise.

 I should have suspected something was amiss when Sunshine sent more than her son's H photo.  All the while I thought the "Are we good now?"  was because hers was the last letter needed for the HAPPY BIRTHDAY to be completed.   Apparently there was a bigger project underfoot.

MyGirl said her assignment was to take a picture of me that could be added to the existing collage.
At the onset, I was to make the exclamation point.
Thank goodness they settled for a heart.

Z presented Mother with the final printed version when they went out for lunch today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mother!

WE LOVE YOU!!!