3 years ago on Sept. 1, Paige Briley McCray was born. Crazy how time flies, especially with our second-born. Here we are now with a witty, strong-headed, bright 3 year old.
Paige has been LOUD and strong-willed since day one. I still remember the grandparents saying they could hear her screaming down the hall from the O.R. when she was first born. Her lung capacity has not ceased! ;) She doesn't back down and is persistant about things she wants (oh my!).
At 3, her most remarkable strength is that she can read! She has a HUGE love for reading. She's loved books since she was a baby. Now, I wonder if this love of books began when we read to her non-stop for each of her 8 daily 20-minute breathing treatments she started when she was a baby. It was the one thing that kept her calm during those treatments. Now, she has this almost strange, awesome photographic memory. Last year, she had an obsession with reading Taite's sight word flash cards from kindergarten. Now, Paige has her own ring of cards....with 80+ words on it....and she can read them all. Weird! At bedtime, she insists on reading to us...and she does. You name it, she reads it. Some of it is very, very familiar text, some is new (like books from the library). She reads it TO us! She loves reading. I hope that this love continues. If she has such a passion for it now, I wonder what it'll be like at age 5 or 15? I'll have to keep you posted...
So, on to her birthday party. The day before, she helped make her cake and chocolate cupcakes. We are a "yellow cake" family, but we always make chocolate cupcakes for friends who'd prefer chocolate! She had fun helping...and eating batter!
The next morning, the cake had cracked. Who knows why. The cake wasn't dry. I'm no cake expert, but I've made a lot of cakes and this was the first time this ever happened. Paige didn't mind &, in my old age, I decided it's not worth stressing over this stuff. So, here's her cake!
She decided on a Wiggles theme for her party & we had it at gymnastics. She started gymnastics classes last week at the same place Taite goes. She loved her first lesson & was glad to finally get into the gym and not have to just sit & watch.
The party was fun. There were about 12 kids and they all had a good time....and so did the adults!
We're celebrating tomorrow evening with our gifts to her and some left-over cake. We got her a training wheel bike, so I hope she'll enjoy that. Here's to our Paiger...Paiger-ator...Paigee....our family wouldn't be complete without her!!
3 comments:
Happy Birthday, Paige!!!!!
There is something about that 2nd born child. Strong willed, indeed! That is amazing how well she reads. :) I can't wait to hear how her passion for books/reading continues.
wow.. amazing! I think when I first met you she had just been born. Crazy! I am VERY impressed with her reading.. if only my Kindergartner could do that... in time, I suppose!! Happy Birthday Paige!
Yay! Paige! I remember meeting you for the very first time and the very first thing I thought was, wow, that girl is HUGE (pregnant) How did her belly get that big and she is so small? So funny... I have sweet memories of Paige and Luke getting into trouble at gymnastics while we gabbed away (ignoring them) Happy birthday sweet girl! Oh, and so cool that she is reading! Love it!
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