Birthday Girls

Cassie turned 11 today! We've been celebrating for a couple of days and I think she's had a really good time. Mike had to go on a last minute business trip to Chicago that was unavoidable at dark thirty this morning so she didn't get to see him. He pretended like yesterday was her birthday. We had cupcakes waiting for her when she got home from school along with our present and the things that I had been saving for her that came in the mail. She made out like a bandit! We got her a really nice bright pink digital camera. She loves taking pictures....almost as much as her mama. We also got her the cutest Hannah Montana studded camera bag. It looks like a little purse, so cute! From grandparents she got money, a subscription to American Girl magazine which thrilled her, the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert DVD, earrings, a stuffed crab (she loves crabs...collects them even...living and not), and she has a couple of other gifts on the way that are supposed to be here on Saturday. I know she loves what she's already gotten...especially that camera. Today I took the goods up to her class so they could make ice cream sundaes. I was supposed to take her shopping after to school to spend her birthday money but about a half hour before I was supposed to do that, the nurse called and told me that Joshua had a fever and couldn't go back to class. She told me I could bring him some medicine, go do the ice cream thing with Cassie's class, and then come back for him. Alas, no birthday shopping after school today. She and her BFF have a reservation for a birthday Libby Du makeover at Club Libby Lu and they're really excited about that. It's planned for Friday night but the BFF has been recovering from pneumonia so we might be rescheduling for the next Friday. If that happens I told her I'd take her to see High School Musical 3 this Friday. She's gonna have fun Friday one way or another...

MY BFF in Texas is having a birthday tomorrow. I sent a b-day package and she got it today. One of the things I sent was this cute pillow I made. It's simple but I really like it. I love that purple fabric. I used it for another pillow I sent in an exchange a few months back. Happy b-day, BFF! I miss you SO much!

I brought the little guy downstairs to sleep. Poor little thing still has a fever.