Went to Nathaniel’s 3rd birthday party yesterday. Nathaniel was sitting outside when I arrived, eating lunch with his grandfather. He hassled me a bit on the way in – “Who are you?!?”? Anyway, he got distracted by lunch and I snuck in.
I’ve been to company parties that were not as fancy.
We’ve been to weddings with lesser cakes.
Ben said they were there at 7:30 in the morning, to setup for the 2pm party.
We joked about taking pictures of Sal around the decorations and just telling him later on, that he had a real big 1st birthday party…we joked about hiring out the Strongs to do our parties…Ben said he has a cheap rate for being the pie boy (photo above). Catherine doesn’t call him a “Pro-Daddy” for no reason.
But in the end, we realized it would be wrong to try and steal some of the Strongs’ efforts as our own and that Sal will just have to settle for his own, lower key parties. And once his memory kicks in, we’ll probably always be too busy to get to a Strong party (and the Strongs might never get invited to a Sal party – we wouldn’t want force them to slum…)