Happy 3rd Birthday My Girl!!

Paige, you've been saying "I'm free!" for months now, and now you really are. 3 years ago I was SO nervous to have a new baby. I was really excited, but I was scared that I would have no clue how to take care of you. But it was love at first sight, like they say.
From the second you were born, Jess and I thought it was the BEST and even the easiest and most natural thing on earth.
You were sweet (but with your temper) from the start. My memories from the first week aren't that clear. I just remember being on cloud 9 with you, and with Jess at home with us. You slept all day, but you kind of stayed up at night. So we just hung out with you in our room, playing games and watching movies. I didn't even feel tired, I was on some adrenalin kick for like the first 5 months. Ha. You'd whimper at night when you were hungry and it wasn't even hard to get up, because I was excited to see you and hold you.
You had such a good personality from so early on.
Jess and I would, and still do, just look at each other in amazement at the cool and funny things you do and say. And at how beautiful you are.
You are hilarious.
And SO smart. And you were so beautifully fat.
You're also so sweet and compassionate. From such a young age you'd be worried if you saw someone upset, especially another baby. ESPECIALLY Lily.
If she was crying or mad, you'd try to rub her back and hug her.

Fortunately, as sweet as you are, you don't seem to be a pushover like your mom. Not even close. You're a little fiery sometimes,
and I love that about you. I could go on for hours and post THOUSANDS of awesome pictures, but I have to stop some time. Just know you're the sweetest girl on earth, and such a good big sister. You changed our lives, and especially us. We love you more than you can possibly know. I thank God for you and Caso every single day. A few times usually.

Happy 3rd birthday my Paige.

Now then, prepare yourself, this next post may have the most pictures ever. About her day. She chose to sleep in a sweater dress last night in lieu of pajamas. Then she walked in to my room when she got up, with a smile. I jumped up to hug her and tell her happy birthday and she smiled even more happily when she realized it was today. Then I offered her donettes for breakfast, and she smiled again.
Cason woke up and stared at us without moving for a while. Then he got cozier in the blankets and looked adorable..
And rosy cheeked....while Paige fielded a few birthday phone calls.
Cason ate his donette like a slob. A cute one though.
He did it wearing awesome monster pjs.
They posed sweetly together. Cason ripped that chunk out of his cheek himself, if you're wondering. Jess took something from him that he wasn't supposed to play with, and he screamed and scratched his own face. My my.
Then we played "cheeseburger". Which of course is played by making Paige some part of a cheeseburger and stacking pillows on top of her. She was the bottom bun today. I pretended to eat her, and then I told her Cason was a french fry and pretended to eat him too. She goes "AND WE'RE A CRACKY PAP!(wacky pack at sonic)" Haha.
Then we finally got out of bed, and Paige saw her ecard Jess sent for her, to my email. She loved it.
She took more phone calls.
She listened while people sang to her, and did her signature "trying not to smile" face.
Then she started refusing phone calls. Jess came home at lunch with balloons and cookies.
THEN tonight we went to the fall festival at Grama Trudi's school. On our way to the car we checked the mail, and Paige was SO excited to get a birthday card from Aunt Mindy and Uncle Randy(thanks guys!), which she read on the drive.
We saw Alex, Faith, and Lily there.

There was a little petting zoo.
They went on a hayride...

..driven by Grampa.
Paige even got to "drive" afterwards.
They had their faces painted.
Paige was quite timid, but got it done anyway.
They played in the playground.

It was lovely.
Now we're home and Paige is watching her early birthday gift, the new Tinkerbell movie.