Ezra's Very Meri Un-Birthday!

Well I can't believe it, our little guy turned one this Sunday. Thank goodness Esther hasn't found a way to off him yet and with a little more luck he'll be around for practically forever (I'm sure all parents want this, well maybe my parents wish some of their children would leave...the house at least... heh he). As most may or may not know, Ezra was born on Feb 29, Leapday, so he can't officially turn one until 2012. In the meantime we've chosen to celebrate his fractional Birthdays on March 1st. We figure that if it had been a normal year that's when he would have arrived. We didn't do a whole lot in the way of celebrating on Sunday because he is having a more official party this coming Saturday (thanks to my poor planning skills and procastinational style) I elected to have it a week later. I did make a "practice" cake which one can see in the picture, and don't worry I'm planning on making the party one look a lot nicer. It tasted good though, so that's got to be worth something.
I think the best thing that happened all day was when Esther and Ezra were playing in the living room with Brock and Lizzi and Abby was playing the piano. It must have been the song that she started playing, Inchworm, from the Reader's Digest book of Children Song's that belonged to my Grandma Davenport (the one Esther was named for). Anyway that song has always reminded me of my Grandma, and in turn reminded me of all the Sunday nights we used to spend over there, eating popcorn, watching T.V, talking and playing on the piano. All of a sudden, I could see Abby as a Grandma with kids and family littered about laughing and enjoying each other. It made me feel a pang of emotion at how truly fleeting our lives are, but so memorable and so worthwhile because of our love for each other. It put Ezras first year in a different perspective for one second, and in that second I felt so blessed. I am so proud to be the mother of these two, and I can only hope that I will impart upon them anything and everything good and worthwhile.