Henry's Birthday "Party" and Announcement!

Lest you think I would go and throw a huge birthday party for my four year old and then not do the same thing for my second son, I'll have you know we did have a party. But, you should also know that this is not a communist house-ocracy and things aren't always equal. And they won't always have to be. I think that's a pretty good lesson for life and high school.

So, since Henry turned 2 and doesn't quite realize the intent behind a party {other than the fact that he intended on eating some cake}, we had a family party at the beach then a special day on his birthday.

We measured his height on the back of our door {do you do that? You should! Just be sure to take the door when you move...} and he has grown 5 1/2 inches this year!

Then we met Jason for an after lunch treat at GiGi's Cupcakes. They are based out of Nashville, but just opened up a store here and are slap-your-mama good.
The cupcakes look like this

And the happy boys look like this.

Then we took off to the park to take some crackers to our favorite ducks and fish.
Henry noted that the animals were looking a little "well- fed" and decided to eat all the crackers himself.

Only one duck snubbed him for this decision.


I loved this picture so much in my head. I wanted them both to look at me and smile with postcard- worthy, angelic charm. I even tried to get Ollie to put him arm around his brother.

It was only when I saw one headed for the water that I realized I was the mommy and not the photographer.

So I put down the camera to rescue one child from the lake. {He did not make it in, but that was the last shot before he was about 2 inches from learning to swim the hard way.}

All in a day's work.

One the way back to the car, when we were all worn out and had eaten thrown all our crackers, Henry decided there is only one thing more fun than chasing ducks.

And that is chasing ducks with your brother.


** No ducks were harmed in the making of this blog post {or birthday outing for that matter}, so please save your duck love e-mail. Thank you.**

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On to the announcement!
This Wednesday, I'll be hosting a "Crazy Things" Link Party/ Blog Hop. Do you have crazy things in your car? Crazy things your kids say? Top 5 craziest outfits you've ever worn? Craziest lunch you've ever consumed in a pinch? Any crazy or fun thing goes!
Just write a post about it and link up here!

At She Speaks, I met some wonderful women in my speaker evalution group and we have stayed connected through e-mails. And we recently put 2 and 2 together that most of us blogged. So, we want to way to introduce our friends to our other friends. Won't you be friendly and play along? I feel like I'm in Mr. Rogers Neighborhood...

This Wednesday the 14th {late Tuesday night the 13th} be here to MckLinky up to some crazy fun! I'm excited!!