Their main present for her hasn't arrived yet (it's being sent to our house, so she'll get it as soon as it shows up) but of course they heaped her with smaller presents so she'd have plenty to open -- stickers and a book and a set of walkie-talkies and so forth.
And I'd mentioned to Sam that Penny enjoys those make-your-own necklace kits, so she and John got her a whole pile of stuff for making necklaces (including a box to keep it all in, thankfully). Penny can't wait to dive into that, especially the little puppy-shaped beads! (Mean Mommy that I am, I wouldn't let her open all the packages of beads at Grandma and Grandpa's last night.)
And there was cake, of course, so as far as Penny was concerned, the evening was a fantastic success.
And I got to take a lot of pictures, and even though I wound up deleting half of them as irredeemably out of focus (dim lighting is not the photographer's friend, especially the photographer of active children!) I still got plenty of wonderful shots, and I had enormous fun playing with them in the editor later. (RAW images and white balance correction are my friends. If the shot reasonably composed and in focus, almost every other fault can be fixed later.)
(As usual, more pictures over at my flickr page.)
And that wasn't even the first of Penny's birthday, because we had our D&D game with Jennie and Brian and Braz on Saturday, and Jennie brought her a book (The Secret Garden) that came with a necklace. We've been having to pry her out of the necklace for baths and bedtime since.
This week, Matt's mom will be in town for a couple of days, so I'm sure we'll do another mini-birthday party with her. (Matt's planning to take the two of them to Busch Gardens one day, which will hopefully be fun.) And then next week will be her actual birthday and (that weekend) birthday party.
Let the festivities begin!
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Your pictures are beautiful. Alex is absolutely adorable and Penny is growing into a lovely little girl :)
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