Ezra’s Great-Grandparents have been in town for the last month or so (since just before Dad’s surgery) and are planning on leaving over the weekend, which means that they won’t be here to celebrate Ezra’s 1st birthday at the party. So, we started the events early and held a nice little dinner tonight….balloons, the gifts from his Great-Grandparents, and a muffin with a candle instead of cake (trying to avoid the sugars for now). Ezra made the obligatory 1st birthday mess, and also got some really cute outfits that he will be sporting this summer and fall. Oh yea, and a book also – which is probably his favorite thing to do right now…read.

Too many pictures came out too cute to trim down the amount loaded (just wait for his actual birthday), so here they are:

Ezra and Ahna stopped by the station last night as I was completing my 48 hour shift. This was really the first time that Ezra has shown a lot of interest in sitting in the truck and playing around with stuff….I see a future Ladder Company Chauffeur in the making!

So Ezra has been giving us signs and symptoms that can either be excused as a cold or as teething for about a week now; and while I suppose that we still don’t know exactly what it all has been from, a new tooth has popped up. It seems like compared to the ‘normal’ timeline, Ezra has been a little slower at getting his teeth so who knows how many are coming in this time. The newest member of his mouth is right next to the elder statesmen on the bottom and just to the right as you look at the picture. His gums appear like they could produce in several different places, but we have been saying that for 8 months….

I was trying to take Ezra’s 11-month photo yesterday, and this image popped up. I thought it actually was a good picture, and really shows off the curls coming in.

With the first two teeth actually making a decent presence in Ezra’s mouth, it was in fact time to introduce him to brushing his teeth. So after his bath last night, we grabbed the tiny toothbrush, applied a tiny amount of the baby tooth paste, and shoved it in his mouth. Ahna moved the brush in a brushing motion hoping to make contact with his teeth once or twice. After the initial ‘what is this’ face that Ezra made, he was mostly okay with the process…hopefully it stays that way.

With a bath time photo taken this evening…