feliz cumpleaños guillermo (dos)

Aaaaannnnnnnddddd one month later. She gets around to posting about her youngest son's second birthday party.

I am a pinterest party planning monster. I start months in advance collecting ideas and developing a theme on my birthday board. I obsessively comb etsy for the perfect cupcake wrappers, spend a fortune at my local party store for color coordinated balloons, and log an embarrassing amount of hours hand-making party decorations.

It's a problem. (I've blogged about these shindigs here and here and here.)

So I decided to go another way this year. A joint-birthday party with a classmate at a park with a splashpad. Only the essentials (as articulated by Joe) ... friends, cake, and piñata. (There was some spirited discussion about the need for presents. Specifying no gifts was a horrific injustice in the mind of my 4 1/2 year old son.)

The result?

curly headed birthday boy

bubble wand stolen from another birthday party
(happening at the same time)

willie is skeptical ... unless you have cupcakes

this man loves to slide

a shot of will and daddy

this picture is my favorite

post piñata

obligatory shot of big brother

So there you have it. An ultra low-key summer birthday with minimal bells and whistles. I probably spent 5% of the time on this party that I've spent on every other one I've thrown for the boys. And you know how much they noticed?

0%

olive juice, okay?

emily

p.s. william, it was really nothing.