Saturday, November 4, 2006

Happy Birthday, Paige!


Today was Paige's 4th birthday party!  Paige is one of the daughters of our very good friends, Shawn and Mandy.  Mandy and I met doing theater at the junior college and we fell in love with her oldest daughter, Delaney.  We started babysitting for her from the time Delaney was six months old and Mandy was even wonderful enough to allow us to take her on a mini-vacation with us once to Deep Creek Lake.  Delaney is now 6 years old, and has a little sister, Paige and a baby brother, Noah:



This is Noah with is hair doo by daddy.  He'll be two in March and is a total cutie!



This is the birthday girl and as you can tell, she had a fairy party today.  Paige is a very quiet and shy little thing (though to my understanding, that all changes as soon as no guests are around).  We watched Paige when she was a baby too and man, she was a rough one.  She was a cranky infant, who, unless she was eating, was not happy.



Mandy made the cake and while the top cake is all chocolate, the bottom part, she only had enough strawberry batter for one cake pan, so the other part of the bottom is chocolate.  She was rolling her eyes about herself, but hey, chocolate and strawberry together rock!

JJ and Delaney are the same age (he's two months older) and already refer to each other as "husband" and "Wife".  (I'm secretly delighted and hope all the time that they will indeed grow up and fall in love and get married! 



Anyway, very fun, very cute and wonderful to get to spend some time with Mandy and the kids!  They live in West Virginia now, and with school in session especially, it is hard to get together as often as we'd like.  But in the next week or so, we'll be getting together so she can take the boy's pictures.  Mandy used to work at the Picture People and is a fabulous photographer.  She is starting up her own business and being a friend, I get a discount plus fabulous pictures.  I hate paying for school pictures because you have to purchse them sight unseen and so many times, when they are in front of a camera, my children become goobers; painful smiles, strange eyes, you get the picture (Get it?  Picture?  Ha!).  So, once she takes them, I'll post one for ya'll to see!



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