The Big One!

We've heard it a million times, but it's true, "it's hard to believe our little baby is already a year old!"

Now that Ezra's crawling he's much more independent. He now climbs into/onto/around things, sticks his fingers into small holes, eats anything on the ground, etc. etc. so Keith and I are having little heart attacks nearly every day. Every once in a while we look at each other and ask, "do all first parents worry that their baby's facing serious injury or even impending death around every corner?" Hence, not only are we celebrating Ezra's birthday because he's one, but we're also celebrating that he's survived two paranoid parents for a whole year.

We had a little birthday party, just us and Ezra. I was stressing a bit about his cake. I can acknowledge my talents, but cooking and baking are not some of them. However I was pleased that Ezra's very simple cake turned out. There are not cake decor shops here in Vienna so I was pleased to find a little bakery where they sold plastic squeeze bottles that could double as a device to pipe frosting.

We utilized our 72-hour kit for the first time. Turns out that waterproof matches don't light very well. We ended up using the broiler in our oven to light them. Glad we found this out before there was a real emergency.