DayOCandice-Goodbye Craigs

Candice planned a day for herself to celebrate her birthday March 2th weekend.  She and Paisley were sick, so she had to cancel.  I was happy about this because we were in Charleston and I was going to miss everything.  DayOCandice was then re-scheduled for April 6th and my whole afternoon was free.  Anything Candice wanted to do, Candice would get.
When April 6th came around, I was ready to go!  DayOCandice here I came!  Well...Candice and Todd finally sold their house, so they were packing up shop to be out of Apex and on the way to Texas this weekend.  DayOCandice turned into "pack up the house".  All Candice needed was someone to take Paisley to the park or entertain her while Todd and Candice packed.  Boring DayOCandice for Candice!  But, when your house has been on the market that long and you're just ready to go, even packing can be a celebration!

I was all too happy to help!

First Paisley and I played with her toys and listened to music from her music class.  Then we geared up and we were off to the park.  We swung together.  Paisley swung by herself.  We played in the grass.  We watched other kids (very intently).  Paisley swung again.  Before I knew it over an hour had passed and I didn't want Candice or Todd to worry that I had stolen their baby, so I made my way back to the house to deposit her safely.

Paisley had just perfected the "stank face".

Then it was home to shower and get ready for the NightOCandice dinner at Sushi Thai.  I should have taken a picture of my sushi because I ordered 4 rolls and the presentation was massive, but I forgot in my hurry to dig in!  Here's the whole group for our last "hurrah" in honor of Candice!

Of course my big gourd has to be sticking out in front of everyone! UGH!

Todd LOVES Mexican food, so a fiesta was planned for April 13th.  However, Kevin and I had just traded in some of our Canes season ticket holder vouchers for tickets that same night, so we missed the goodbye fiesta.  Kevin wanted to have time to say goodbye in his own way.  So...we went over to Chez Craig last Friday night, ordered pizza, and had WAY too many laughs!  Storms were rolling through, we were under a tornado warning and the Craig house lost power for about an hour and a half.  We ate pizza in the dark, Candice worried about Paisley sleeping without the monitor and wanted to report the outage, Todd gathered up the electricity bill to prove electricity came from the Town of Apex and not Progress Energy, Candice called the outage line and got the Apex emergency department.  We all laughed hysterically.  Then she and the lady chatted for a bit..on the emergency line.  Maybe you had to be there, it was a riot!  Kevin opened a link that his buddy had sent him on his phone and we heard police scanners from Boston talking about a man in a boat.  That was funny as well until we learned it was the 2nd suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings and we heard the news before CNN reported it once the power came back on.  We had been following the manhunt in Watertown all day, so we knew exactly what was going on.  It was a wild night!  We finally realized we needed to go home, so we said our goodbyes and wished the Craigs a safe trip to Texas.

THEN last Sunday afternoon (two days after our final goodbye), Candice texted me to see if we were available and could we watch Paisley!?!  Of course!  Kevin came with me and we took her to the park to play.  We swung with her, she swung, we went down the slide, we "walked" her around, we played in the grass, she ate veggie sticks and then we walked all over the neighborhood for 45 minutes while she just chilled in the stroller.  Kevin was AWESOME with her!  It was great!  

All smiles for Kevin!

Then we joined the Craigs and Margie, their neighbor, for dinner where we said our last goodbyes AGAIN!

Wishing the Todd, Candice and Paisley a safe trip down to Texas!  We love ya'll so much!  You have no idea how much you will be missed!  We WILL be down to visit!  Maybe for Paisley's 1st birthday?  You just let us know!  Follow the Craigs here for updates on their move and their new life in Texas.