Ten years ago today, after three hours of labor and two pushes (maybe three?) Paige came into this world. Not crying, but looking around her like "Oh...so THIS is what all that noise was". I have a picture of her being weighed etc and Mark is reading "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" to her. He had read that book to her every night since I was three weeks pregnant. She is just staring up at him with such intent eyes. The nurses later told Mark they'd never seen a baby like that before. We should have known then what a wonder she was! Three months later she was crawling ( I kid you not, I checked the dates in her baby book!) and five months later she was walking ON HER OWN. She knew baby sign language and so could communicate with us long before she could talk. Her favourite thing to sign was "more fishy cracker". She is still crazy about fishy crackers! She has SUCH a sense of humor too...quite frankly she has a wickedly good sense of humor and I can't wait to see how it develops as she grows older. Smart is a given..she's in a gifted program. But more important than anything else, she has a heart full of genuineness. She truly cares about people and I believe she is even a bit of an empath. She can sense things about people. She talks often about things being deja vu. She is our quirky child that is for sure...and we wouldn't have her any other way.
So Happy Birthday Paige! Double digits for you. You won't change digits until you are 100, and knowing you, you'll live past that as well! :)
Mark is out to sea so instead of a big birthday celebration today, we went to Applebees for dinner. I also made an 'owl' cake for her class today (pictured below). I am planning a 'detective party' for her for when Mark is home from sea as that is when she wanted to have it. Mark has not missed one birthday party of hers yet, she didn't want this to be the first!
Hugs and love
Jaye (Mom)
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