The first of what will probably be a slew of birthday posts

Last year, Ethan totally got jipped on his birthday.



(Is that how you spell that? Jipped? Gipped? Spell check offered me kipped, hipped, copped, cupped, and japed.



Once again, I digress. Back to last January.)



Ethan had bronchitis on his first birthday, so we had to cancel his party. *Poor 3rd child. Mommy never rescheduled....*



However, my sweet mother-in-law, on our family vacation in Wisconsin last June, decided that we were going to make birthday cupcakes and we were going to have an 18-month birthday party for Ethan. "What a great idea," I thought.



So, we donned hats, and started singing "Happy Birthday" to my sweet baby.

And, this is what he did:

I thought maybe it was the hat, so I took it off.

Nope.

Even cake didn't cheer him up.

I'm not sure why, but, at the sound of the Happy Birthday song, my son started having a slow meltdown. He really never recovered. I had to *force* the cake down him in order to get pictures of him eating cake. I thought it was a fluke.

Until this year.

Same song.

Same reaction.

(It's Cameron, by the way, who is the unseen blower-outer of the birthday candles *grin*.)

The cake worked this year, though! Ethan perked right up after the video, when I placed a giant piece in front of him and let him go at it....but I thought it was funny that he reacted this way to this song twice. (Three times, if you count his 'almost-cry' in church Sunday morning when they sang to him in Sunday School.)

Even though it wasn't the reaction I thought he would have, it was pretty cute. And it makes for a good story and a great video!