Happy Birthday, Henry!

Birthday boy!
Originally uploaded by hepcatrayo.

COLUMBUS, OH - There has been much hubbub about this anticipated event in Clintonville, OH. And then there was much procrastination in writing about it.

Here is a transcript of an interview on the day of Henry Rayo's second birthday.

Dad: So, how old are you going to be, Henry?
Henry: Two! (holding up all five fingers)

Dad: What day is today? What day do you turn two?
Henry: July second.

Dad: What do you want to do on your birthday?
Henry: Do SummerFarts (somersaults)!

We had every intention of making this birthday a smaller one (we planned for 40 last year) but once we started writing invitations, we knew that the small party was never going to happen. So we made the menu smaller: Ice Cream Social!

So it was still 40 of Henry's closest friends. We still decked out the house. But we didn't overstress our kitchen or our parents with chicken and sides for 40 ... we just bought a chest freezer and pointed everyone to the ice cream bar.

Henry practiced with Mommy all week to blow out the candles, but had a little stage fright when it came to the big moment. Asia helped.

Then Uncle Jimmy crawled in a box and fell over (see earlier post).

Fun!

Poor Boxman!!

In true cart before horse fashion, here's a video of the end of Henry's birthday party ... we'll tell more about the actual party soon!!!

(That's uncle Jimmy in the box, and I'm the big jerk with the hippity hop ... sorry, Jim!)