| | I suppose it's appropriate that I'm two months late on sharing the fun of Hina's second birthday. Since tardiness is an ongoing theme for this blog, I'm sure all of you are simply getting what you've expected, and, if you think really well of me, you're actually getting it earlier than you expected. So let's get to it....
You may remember that last year, when Hina turned 1, I talked about the phenomenons of the birthday week and birthday months. However, it's more appropriate this time around to tell you about her birthday through something else that's becoming a theme (in this blog at least)--the number 2. Hina was graced this year with two parties--one in Georgia, with her friends and family down there, and one in Michigan, with Mama, Papa, and more friends.
We were in Georgia for ten days in February when Shawn went to Honduras to help build a church in a remote village. The night before our return to Michigan, Aunt Taytee (aka Katie), Uncle Will, and Cousin Ceanna hosted Hina's first party. She opened a Cabbage Patch kid from Bibbits, Poppy, and the above hosts. She also received a pretty cool animal encyclopedia from her godparents, and she now asks us to read it to her often. Of course, no toddler party would be appropriate without at least one gift of candy, and Tova delivered there. I try to reserve those candies for successful potty attempts, so they should be around for a long, long while.
 
At Hina's second party, Mama and Papa spent hours and hours cooking Southern food for a group of mainly Northerners and Midwesterners. The dishes trailed us for days, but Hina could have cared less because she was presented, mid-party, with a giant platter of homemade chocolate donuts (see video below). We learned at her first birthday that she's not a fan of cake, so the donuts seemed the next best thing. We nailed that one. Thankfully, the chocolate sauce came out of her clothes pretty easily. By far, it was the hit of the party, despite the piles and piles of fried chicken and macaroni and cheese at the other end of the table.
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