Ezra’s 10th Birthday

Ezra’s birthday celebration got started very early … for me at least. He wanted to bring donuts to school so I was at Krispy Kreme at the crack of dawn buying them. Of course, I brought home some extras so we could start the day off right with the breakfast of champions. Thankfully, Bruce also made them eggs so they wouldn’t be hungry and cranky five minutes after getting to school.

Untitled

Jamma called to wish Ezra a happy birthday, so we all got to have a chat.

Untitled

Then it was off to school. I stopped Ezra on the way out for a proper 10th Birthday Photo.

Untitled

School seemed to go well; I’m pretty sure Ezra ate the three or so extra donuts I’d bought so he was happy. When we got home he had a Skype date with his friend Jack, who turned ten two days before Ezra. Here’s Ezra showing Jack a website he likes.

Untitled

After that the boys had much needed and long overdue dentist appointments. I think I earned the Mother of the Year award for booking a dentist appointment on his birthday, but he didn’t really seem to mind.

Untitled

For his birthday dinner, he chose his favorite burger joint, Five Guys. We picked up Bruce from the offices of Skybox where he was doing a meet and greet since Google recently acquired the company. Across the street we spied a robot (!) and went over to check it out.

Untitled

Untitled

And there was a whole slew of them inside!

Untitled

After dinner he opened presents — lots of LEGO, exactly what he wanted.

Untitled

Untitled

And, of course, there were cupcakes.

Untitled

His party was planned for the coming weekend, so I did a little test of the kind of cupcakes he wanted, namely, chocolate cake with a chunk of chocolate in the middle. I wasn’t sure how that was going to turn out, so I did some with and some without. I also tried two kinds of frosting — vanilla buttercream and chocolate ganache. Oh, and of course, chocolate mini figures on top.

He lit his own candle, we sang, and four cupcakes were history in about a minute.

Untitled

Happy Birthday, Ezra!