13) He'll Show Up- Carol was hoping that her third child would be a boy. That wasn't to be as another baby girl was placed in her arms instead. She loved her little Cindy but couldn't get over her disappointment of not having a son to finally call her own.

"I want to keep trying until we have a boy," Carol confessed to her husband that last night in the hospital.

"That's crazy. We've got three beautiful girls to love. If you were meant to have a boy, he'll show up."

Carol thought it was weird that he said solely her and not him having a boy. She didn't press it any further; she just simply sighed and bit her tongue. His words would come back and haunt her not even a year later when he died in the car accident, then during her courtship with Mike, then engagement and then wedding day. It wasn't until she legally adopted Greg, Peter and Bobby did her late husband's voice ringing in her ears.

"If you were meant to have a boy in your life, he'll show up."

14) At The Hour Of Our Death- Bobby and Cindy seemed to know when their birth parent's deaths were about to occur. Around the time her father's car crashed, usually Cindy would be out for naptime. She was a good sleeper and would always manage to fall asleep on the dot. Not that day, she wailed to the top of her lungs for a good hour and Carol was flabbergasted by her uncharacteristic behavior. She rocked her, checked her diaper, and even gave her a bath, nothing worked. It wasn't until Carol got the phone call and began to wail herself did Cindy finally fall asleep.

Bobby on the other hand wasn't much of a sleepyhead when he was a baby. He often would be up hours at a time during the night just babbling away to himself. Both his parents agreed that at least he was happy during his awake hours and not crying. At two in the morning, Mike could have swore he'd heard Bobby say, "Mama, mama, mama." That was when he rolled over and beckoned for his wife to wake up. She wouldn't; he had called for her, nudged her until he finally realized how cold she was. All the while Bobby kept repeating, "Mama, mama, mama."

15) Go Ask Alice- It was true that Sam loved Alice. It was also true that Sam spent his life doing things that he loved. That's why he couldn't understand why Alice never realized that all the inane little things he would take her to were ways he was showing he loved her. He was proud of his meat business and made it a point to bring her every year that they were a-courting. Bowling was his favorite hobby and wanted desparately for Alice to be by his side and enjoying every minute of it like he did. During cousin Clara's elopement, Sam had an a-ha moment. He looked at Alice, back at his cousin, and then back at the justice of the peace. He realized that he had already chosen to live his life with Alice, why not make it official.

"Hey, Alice," Sam said on the way home. "I finally want to get married. Do you want to be my wife?"

"Oh, Sam," she replied breathless. "All you had to do was ask. Of course I want to be your wife!"

16) Like Father, Like Daughter- Jan didn't really know what she wanted to do with her life after high school. She knew she was going to college but had no idea what she would major in. She always liked art, was always good at art, she figured she would do something with that. That summer after graduation, she was studying her father's latest big project. He was putting the final touches on his model when Jan thought she'd take a look at his sketches and blueprints. She looked at those papers along with the final model and it all amazingly made sense to her.

"Hey, dad. I think your daughter would like to study arcitecture."

"You can study whatever you'd like, sweetheart," he replied with his heart silently expanding with pride.

17) The Lost Boy- Carol always seemed to worry about her middle daughter, especially in her teenage years. She felt her poor daughter was so self-critical of herself that she feared she would never quite get a grip on her life. That all changed once she went to college and she had blossomed. Carol couldn't help but thank God for her daughter's turn-around. That was when they worried about Peter. He began to become quite the party animal. He had plenty of girls, plenty of booze and plenty of ego. Peter had made it through college, Carol had no idea how he did it. Peter then went from one dead end job to another and one girl to another. Carol couldn't help but wonder if the middle child syndrome had struck again and under very different circumstances.

18) Father Of The Bride's Prophecy- The day of Marcia and Jan's double wedding was a whirlwind. Mike and Carol went to bed as early as they possibly could that night. What an emotionally charged yet draining day all at the same time. Mike had crawled into bed first and then Carol joined him after she got done washing the make-up off her face.

"You know," Mike piped up after Carol laid down. "I'm not really thrilled about Wally."

"How come?"

"He's fun."

"Well, that's a good thing, isn't it? If you ask me, Phillip could use a little of a personality picker-upper."

"No, no, you don't understand. Wally's the kind of guy you want to have around when the good times roll, but there are definitely times when the bad seems to stick. That's when you begin to behave responsibly and take charge and I don't think Wally has that in him."

"...And you think Phillip does?"

"Yeah, I think so. Look, I'm not saying this to say Wally doesn't love Marcia, I'm sure he does, but I don't think he can take care of her the way Phillip can take care of Jan. If something were to happen, I know Phillip would show up and I don't think Wally has the mental toughness to do the same."

"Yeah, but Mike, we've known Phillip a lot longer than Wally. Wally's got plenty of time to prove you wrong."

"Perhaps that's it. Goodnight, sweetheart," he rolls over and pecks his wife on the lips. Carol may be right, but Wally just may be the guy he's already credited him for.