HENRY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

Today was my nephew, Henry's 4th bday party so we all headed over to Michael and Kay's for an intimate bday bash for the little man. He is totally in love with everything star wars these days so he got tons and tons of star wars action figures and lots of really cool lego things too. And then there was a cake.

Henry was extremely patient considering he was one of the last people to actually get to eat his bday cake.

Gary and Conroy found their own form of amusement while playing with one of Henry's new action figures.

One of the best parts of the evening was when Gary and I gave my 7 year-old niece, Zoe her Christmas gift. We decided that since she's a big girl now, she should have a big girl gift. So, we got her the new tiny iPOD shuffle. But, just to be a little bit mean, we bought her a really crappy $6 Carebear and clipped the iPOD onto it. So, here's what happened....
"oh, what a nice bear..."

...and then...

...the real smile...

...and mommy was in on the joke...

Here it is up close.

The funny thing about it all was that she's such a great kid that she actually seemed happy to see the Carebear, even though Gary and I took great care to find the most horrible looking thing we could find. :)
Zoe also really liked the new outfit she got for her "All American Girl" doll.