Hello! Just popping in with a quick hello and a book event reminder (below). Yesterday, we celebrated Ezra's fifth birthday. Five? Oh my. Five feels like one of those big numbers to me - all day I looked at him and thought, "really? five? how can this be happening so fast?" and then in the next breath, of course, cannot remember my life before him, as if it's been years and years. One of those incredibly hard to explain, and yet so very real parenting feelings.
Anyway, it was a lovely day. A perfectly mellow kind of day, well-suited to my little guy. Bike rides (his birthday gift to himself? riding without training wheels!), lots and lots of music, a menu carefully planned out from breakfast to dessert, and a celebratory dinner with friends and family. Good times.
Part of his carefully planned out menu (food is very important to my little one - remember the mustard party?) included this request for a cake: "part strawberry cake and part blueberry cake, but not the parts mixed together. blueberry frosting, with strawberries on top." A little specific, yes. But I was feeling up for the challenge and it all worked out just right (starting with this recipe, but with some changes to make it lighter). A layer of strawberry, a layer of blueberry, with blueberry cream cheese frosting. Yum.
And a tiny moment from the day: Moments after Ezra opened his eyes in the morning Calvin ran to give him a little package he'd made and squirreled away nearly a month ago now - A set of handmade microphones. Ezra loved them .... and I nearly cried. Because these three little microphones just about sum up sibling relationships for me. They are inevitably the first to pound on each other (and they do - quite often); and yet, also the first to lovingly and quietly create and give a gift so absolutely perfect for the other that no other gift could possibly compare. Truly. Heart-swelling.
And last, a little reminder. I'll be popping out tonight for a book reading, Q&A, and signing at Books, Etc in Falmouth, Maine at 6:30 pm. (The postcard here). I'd love to see you there!
{Back to regular blogging soon...I have a few more days of 'vacationing at home' to do. And some cake to eat. And some microphone-singing to do. Oh, yes.}
