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Happy birthday Henry! Geilston Bay, October 2011

Can you believe it? Henry is FIVE today.

FIVE!

Intense preparations forbid me to dwell too long on today's Sunday Top Five: The Top Five This Will Hurt Me Blog Posts On Henry's Birthday Party-Related Events Throughout History!

  • A short and sweet series for first birthday party...

  • Parts EIN and ZWEI of birthday party two...

  • Photograph, video and CAKE from party #3...

  • Shark attack from birthday number FOUR

  • ...You'll see number five on this list later today!
  • Comments

    Sue said…
    Thanks for the quick review of birthdays past! How lovely to see H's life condensed like that! And your gorgeous cake creations. They just get better and better! Can hardly wait to see what you manage for his 21st!! hahaha
    How beautiful to see Henry transformation from that gorgeous little baby to the handsome lad of today. Like the cakes...he just gets better and better too!
    Sue said…
    That would be *Henry's transformation*. Forgot to add the possessive apostrophe and 's'.....
    my bad.
    Roddy said…
    Lousy proofreader Sue. I have the same problem with mine occasionally.
    Kris McCracken said…
    Sue, good old Cranky Hanky.

    Roddy, we all make mistakes.

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