9/29

9/29/99 - 11:59 PM

It's not often that I'm speechless but . . .

My little girl is now 10!!

Happy birthday Brenna Rose!!!!

HAPPY (early) BIRTHDAY BRENNA!

We had a pool party today for Brenna and her best friend who is conveniently also a Sept. baby. Sixteen of the 20 girls in their class were able to come plus one who transferred out this year (but will continue to do scouts with them) and their collective 3 little sisters. It made for a lot of squealing girls but it was awesome to see them all having fun together. Because their school has only one class of each garde, most of these girls have been together for several years and have formed neat little friendships. Amazingly, they also still do really well as a big group too - no cliques or girly cat fights yet!

Things got off to a rocky start when I woke up at 6:30 am to rain and gale-force winds. Oh nooooo! I said a few quick prayers for sun and jumped in the shower before wrapping the favors. How cute are these "cupcakes" filled with cool girly stuff? Though the rain stopped as the morning went on, it was still quite windy and chilly (I was wearing jeans) when I went to the pool at noon. I brought basketballs and jump ropes we could use if it was simply too cold as well as our CD karaoke player and the High School Muscal and Hannah Montana CDs to use in a pinch. There would be nothing worse than a posse of bored 8 yr. olds!!

I was pleasantly surprised to find it was quite warm on the pool deck though and when the girls arrived at 1pm, they happily jumped right in with nary a shiver. I guess since the pool is set up high on a hill, it's much warmer there or something! Everyone behaved beautifully, had fun together and ate the ton of food we brought. And the wind must have scared everyone else away because we had the whole place just about to ourselves. We had reserved the big pavilion and deck in the back, but there were only a few lap swimmers in the pool and no one else on the main deck anyway. Good, because no one else would have wanted to be subjected to the dance party they put on after eating!!

The only downside to the whole thing is that Brenna's "real" birthday is still 2 weeks away but now she's "in the spirit" so to say. It's going to be a long wait until that big day!