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We had two bbq's on our dance card this weekend, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. I'm still not quite sure how this happened, because really, we have no friends, and yet...

The Saturday bbq was a lot of fun. Henry had a playmate named Thomas who is a few days shy of two. He's also as tall as Henry so when they play together they look perfectly sized for their age. Usually Henry looks like a giant compared to other kids. They got along smashingly. Thomas showed Henry how to use all of his toys and every once in a while I'd look up and see them squatting together, staring intently at a toy laptop or [insert some other toy here] and I'd feel quite the little surge of pride. I fully expected there would be lots of mini-tantrums on my kid's part because he's reached the "I don't share with nobody" stage of toddlerhood full force, but there wasn't even a hint of one. The only weird thing that happened was at the park. Thomas went running past me and because he's the same height as Henry and has the same hair color, I shifted into autopilot and reached out and scruffled his hair. I was slightly embarrassed when I realized it wasn't my kid. I thought that might weird out his mom because I really don't know them very well yet, but she said she can't resist doing it either, so there you go. Later Dave said he did the same thing.

The Sunday bbq was also a lot of fun. Some friends of ours smoked a pork tenderloin all afternoon. (For anyone who might be interested in such things, Dave now wants a smoker for his birthday *ahem*.) One of our hosts was a young lady named Kathy who has taken quite a shine to Henry. She showed him all of her toys, but only after giving me a tour of all of the Hello Kitty items she owns. I now have a small checklist of things I need to get. Apparently one of the things she learned upon starting second grade this year was that people have bbq's to celebrate labor day, so she insisted her parents have people over. I hope she does that more often. Henry got to eat lots of chips before sitting down to dinner, which was amazing. There was a potato salad so good I left with the recipe, green beans fresh from the garden, baked beans, and homemade apple pie for desert. We did not suffer.