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Katy Birthday

Katy Birthday

Turning Four

Turning Four

Chuck the Duck

Chuck the Duck

Chuck goes with Sally. They’re both mallards.

Unwrapping

Unwrapping

Birthday Chair

Birthday Chair

Ess decorated this chair for me on my birthday.

Blowing Out Candles

Excitement, fear, fire, birthday, baked goods, smoke, relief, clapping. It’s all there, in under 30 seconds.

Last Day of Two

Essie’s birthday party was held the last day she was two; this is that evening. She turned three the next day.

Birthday Girl

Birthday Girl

Sailing the Moana Boat

Third Birthday Cake

Third Birthday Cake

Essie’s third birthday cake. Hand-baked from scratch by Mykala (blueberry dye to get the frosting Essie’s favorite color: purple).

Flutter

Best part of this video is the end: Ess singing happy birthday using only the word ‘flutter’.

Bug Cake

Mykala outdid herself with Essie’s birthday cake this year.

Birthday Bugs

Birthday Bugs

Mykala put together a ladybug picnic-themed birthday for Essie’s third. These treats were delicious AND cute.

Three

In a few hours, it’ll be three years since Ess was born. For the first two years, there was kind of a catching of the breath after each stage: after she began sleeping more reliably, after she stopped needing to be burped, after she could sit through a meal out at a restaurant. Beginning with this birthday, it is a less of a catching of the breath and more this sense of taking a memory (“hope I don’t fall down” whenever she climbed the stairs) or a mis-pronunciation (dooDAHNdaht for banana) and reverently setting it on the shelf, leaving it behind.

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“Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to Dada…” is what I heard Ess singing in her pack and play on the morning of my birthday. She and Mykala sang it again later that day, and we drew with chalk on the sidewalk. Mykala baked a yellow cake (one of my favorites), and frosted a birthday greeting on the top of it. I visited my parents, and the sun was out for the first time in a few days. I tripled my age and got 96; I looked back and realized I started at my current job when I was only 27, and that Ess was born when I was 29. I recalled looking at my official birthday certificate when I was in college, and seeing my mom’s age at my birth: 29.

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Wishing Robin a Happy 50th Birthday

Wishing Robin a Happy 50th Birthday

Birthday Food

Birthday Food

Eating salted caramel coconut ice cream for Mykala’s birthday.

Ess and Nan

Celebrating Nannie’s birthday.

Happy Birthday

Here’s everyone singing Happy Birthday to You while Ess continually asks where her cake is.

Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty

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