The Obligatory
October 16, 2009
Ezra, being his typical charming self, voicing his displeasure over being deposited in his high chair when he was right in the middle of disconnecting the refrigerator's water hook-up, and also over his hand-me-down 1st Birthday Boy bib, like SORRY, Novelty Bib Establishment, I also reused a Baby's First Christmas bib and there's nothing you can do about it.
But wait! What's this?
I am...curious. Strangely...drawn to it.
Though also a little baffled by it.
Aha! Food! I like food.
Yep. I do like...
OMG.
OMG.
OMG. OMG.
OMG.
Whoa. WHOA.
<NOMNOMROMROMMOMMOM>
<SNARFSNARFSNARFMMMPHHH>
Wut?
Dude. You have no idea.
It's like, soooooo goo-
OH CRAP.
HULK...GETTING...ANGRY...
Aaaaaaaand scene.
Happy birthday, Little Ez!
Posted by: Bachelor Girl | October 16, 2009 at 03:12 PM
So cute! At one point he looks like he's stoned out of his gourd on the goodness.
Posted by: Michelle | October 16, 2009 at 03:14 PM
Brilliant
Posted by: Nancy | October 16, 2009 at 03:14 PM
I just laughed until I started coughing.
Posted by: rebecca | October 16, 2009 at 03:15 PM
I am chuckling over here at how awesomely textbook that was. Also, how cute it was. There is something irresistable about the whole TRY? OMG... SNARF! sequence with toddlers in general, but Ezra takes it to a whole new level.
I'm going to point to this post as a significant chunk of my defense in the kidnapping trial, to illustrate that you totally asked for it.
Posted by: Della | October 16, 2009 at 03:15 PM
Quite possibly, the Best Baby Eating Post Evar!
Posted by: Missie | October 16, 2009 at 03:16 PM
BAAAAAHAHAHAAA! Someone finally got to try the chocolate, I see. Happy birthday handsome squishy little man. Love- Some Stranger Lady From The Internet Who Hearts Your Mama's Blog
Posted by: MissAndra | October 16, 2009 at 03:17 PM
I KNEW there had to be "angry baby" photos at the end. At least, I was hoping for some. To prove that my kid isn't the only one who turns into Evil Dictator Child when he finishes dessert.
Posted by: Maureen | October 16, 2009 at 03:18 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHA, OMG that was hilarious. Your captions always kill me!
Posted by: LbL | October 16, 2009 at 03:18 PM
Bravo! Bravo! More! More!
Posted by: cris | October 16, 2009 at 03:20 PM
Hey, at least you found the hand-me-down novelty bib for the right day. My daughter has been wearing a Thanksgiving bib all summer, and of course I probably won't be able to find it come Turkey Day, so then I will probably have to put her in the Valentine's one or some such.
Posted by: RAGE against the MINIVAN | October 16, 2009 at 03:25 PM
I'm pretty sure that's still how I look when I eat chocolate. Bib and all.
Posted by: Deanna | October 16, 2009 at 03:25 PM
Love it!! And I loved the video from yesterday - I've made a mental note to get some video before I have our next baby, we didn't do that last time.
And Happy Birthday Ezra!!
Posted by: LL | October 16, 2009 at 03:26 PM
At least he used his bib nicely to wipe his hands off for you!
Holy 1st birthday Batman! Time flies by, eh?!
Posted by: Christina | October 16, 2009 at 03:27 PM
Encore! Encore! Is that seriously the first time he's tried cake? You may have an addict now!
Posted by: Sprite's Keeper | October 16, 2009 at 03:29 PM
Tee hee! What a cutie!! Hope he had a good birthday.
Posted by: nonsoccermom | October 16, 2009 at 03:39 PM
Quick! Get another cupcake!
Posted by: BB | October 16, 2009 at 03:40 PM
Your captions are the best, and E is all sorts of awesome.
Posted by: samantha jo campen | October 16, 2009 at 03:41 PM
Awesome! Happy birthday, little man!
Posted by: Marianne | October 16, 2009 at 03:43 PM
ha! love this sequence~ is hilarious!
Posted by: Sara | October 16, 2009 at 03:43 PM
I think that's the funniest first birthday cake rundown I've ever seen. So then what? Meltdown? Tantrum? Appeased with more cake?
Posted by: another Amy | October 16, 2009 at 03:44 PM
It's my birthday today; unfortunately, shoving cupcakes into your mouth is much, much less adorable when you're twenty-three than when you are Ezra. But that won't stop me.
Posted by: sara | October 16, 2009 at 03:45 PM
Baby's first chocolate? Now that is a birthday present!! Happy birthday, Ezra!
Posted by: Kathleen | October 16, 2009 at 03:47 PM
hahahahahahaha I can't wait to be a mom!!!! Moments like this....priceless.
Posted by: Shelly | October 16, 2009 at 03:48 PM
Oh! Oh! Laughing and laughing! What a great monument to the First Birthday Cupcake.
Posted by: liz | October 16, 2009 at 03:58 PM
You can just read his mind, "what is this deliciousness and WHY HAVE YOU KEPT IT FROM ME FOR SO LONG, woman!!!"
Posted by: sheilah | October 16, 2009 at 04:01 PM
Hiiiiiilarious! I need that. Thank you!
Posted by: Mississippianna | October 16, 2009 at 04:01 PM
Happy Birthday, Ez! You are the cutest almost-not-a-baby-anymore in the world. Except for mine, who are girls, so it doesn't count that I said that about somebody else's kid.
Also - Amy, you crack me the hell up. Now - do the same post only with you drinking wine. Entertainment Gold, I tell you!
Posted by: Liz | October 16, 2009 at 04:01 PM
So friggin cute! Happy birthday Ezra!
My 6 month old is just starting to eat solids, and the expressions she makes are priceless.
Posted by: Olivia | October 16, 2009 at 04:06 PM
LOL I love your captions - You are hilarious! And your little model boy there helps too i guess ;-)
Posted by: Lauren | October 16, 2009 at 04:14 PM
Love this - and note the pristine, clean bib in the first pic compared to the final state of the bib in the last pic - priceless!
Posted by: Peggy | October 16, 2009 at 04:22 PM
Wait, weren't you just pregnant? And it's eating CUPCAKES ALREADY?
Posted by: Mrs. Kennedy | October 16, 2009 at 04:38 PM
Oh my gosh! Laughing so hard I'm crying right at my desk! HYSTERICAL! My baby boy turned one on the 3rd and I couldn't get him to touch his cake!
Posted by: Mary | October 16, 2009 at 04:45 PM
That was pretty cute-I love the OMG OMG moment because its so true, once they taste that chocolate its like finding nirvana-just wait until he tries bacon.
Posted by: haitian american family of three | October 16, 2009 at 04:48 PM
Hahahahaha! I loved this. Bravo!
Posted by: Notesfromthegrove | October 16, 2009 at 04:51 PM
Precious! And now I want cake. To the grocery store!
Posted by: Brandi | October 16, 2009 at 04:54 PM
I STILL do that and my first birthday was, oh, a few years back.
Posted by: Karen | October 16, 2009 at 04:56 PM
So cute! I love the photos, and I love his hair. Have you cut it yet? It is growing out perfectly!
Posted by: Heather | October 16, 2009 at 04:58 PM
Give that boy another cupcake!! After all, you only have a first birthday once.
Posted by: Starbuck | October 16, 2009 at 05:05 PM
Baaaahahahhah!! "Dude. You have no idea." is my favorite. Can I have a cupcake? And an Ezra?
Posted by: Belle | October 16, 2009 at 05:30 PM
He's about to yell, "Give me another." Where there sparks while he was eating that cupcake!?!?
Posted by: Jennifer | October 16, 2009 at 05:31 PM
Holy crap, that was the funniest thing since...well one of your other recent posts, I guess....but awesome. Thank you!
Happy Birthday Ez!
Posted by: Karen | October 16, 2009 at 05:50 PM
Quick, give him another cupcake!
Posted by: Caroline | October 16, 2009 at 05:51 PM
Wow, I'm totally impressed that you can lay your hands on the reused First Birthday Bib. Like, are you some kind of organizational genius? I mean really.
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: lisa | October 16, 2009 at 05:53 PM
These are awesome. It strongly brings to mind the famous video of Ezra roaring like a beast. So glad he liked his cupcake!
Posted by: Parsing Nonsense | October 16, 2009 at 06:00 PM
OMG, I'M DYING. That was hilarious.
Posted by: Kara | October 16, 2009 at 06:33 PM
So how many more cupcakes did you give him? I love the cupcake coma picture! He's absolutely freaking adorable! Happy, happy birthday to the Mighty, Mighty Ezra!
Posted by: MommiePie | October 16, 2009 at 06:39 PM
Ha ha! So funny and cute.
Posted by: Liz | October 16, 2009 at 06:51 PM
I hope you have him another cupcake, for if you didn't you most certainly are a mean and cruel purveyor of doom and sadness.
Long live the mighty Ez! Happy birthday, lil dude!
Posted by: Andrea | October 16, 2009 at 06:58 PM
And once again, the typo is my downfall! *sigh*
Posted by: Andrea | October 16, 2009 at 06:58 PM
He is SOOOO precious!!!! And I love the photo essay... When mine turned one he couldn't have cared less about the cake. Seriously. EVERY picture we have of him "eating" cake at his 1st birthday he is staring at it with the disdain one usually exhibits when approached with cleaning the toilet. It was hilarious.
Posted by: Katie | October 16, 2009 at 08:38 PM
That was hysterical. And the "Hulk" bit totally got me! I swear, just yesterday I was sighing as you described his enthusiasm for solids. I see that hasn't abated! Happy birthday, big guy!
Posted by: Kendra | October 16, 2009 at 08:38 PM
LOVE the photo progression, along with the commentary. Perfection.
Posted by: Meegan | October 16, 2009 at 08:40 PM
Will you please have another one?
Love it. You are blessed!
Posted by: Cristin | October 16, 2009 at 08:50 PM
Could not have laughed harder. I can only hope that Diva's birthday pics have such a great narrative quality. Ezra is so freaking expressive it kills me.
Posted by: Heather | October 16, 2009 at 09:43 PM
OMGOMGOMG ... TOO MUCH CUTE.
happy bd
OMGOMGOMG RRRAAAWWRRRHHHH
Posted by: r | October 16, 2009 at 10:07 PM
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! That was a MUCH needed guffaw, THANK YOU. So hysterical.
xo
b.
Posted by: just beth | October 16, 2009 at 10:14 PM
SO glad to see my little 'angel' isn't the only child out there who gets angry when her food is gone :o).
Posted by: christine | October 16, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Best picture post ever!!!
You nailed every single caption!
Posted by: Nel | October 16, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Speaking of OMG, that sequence was hilarious! I anticipate something similar in a few months when my baby turns one, but she's not as great an eater as Ez. I'll bet cake will win her over, though.
Posted by: Marie | October 17, 2009 at 12:41 AM
K, that last pic totally made me think of the vid of Ezra you posted a bit back, "RAWR Where is my melon, woman!!!" Super cute!!
Posted by: maria | October 17, 2009 at 01:04 AM
so adorable...Nothing like a baby's first cupcake. Mine always looked at me like, "Dude, where you been hiding these??"
Happy Birthday, little pumpkin!
Posted by: meg...ct | October 17, 2009 at 08:09 AM
Heheheehehehe
Posted by: Kristin | October 17, 2009 at 08:40 AM
hahahahahah! Was that his first cupcake?
Posted by: Natballs | October 17, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Comic genius. Man, that is one cute one year old!!
Posted by: Loren | October 17, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Hilarious! Adorable!
(Was it a real cupcake? Or some sort of healthy cupcake? I am curious, because my baby's first birthday is in a couple of weeks and I can't decide- real sugared-up cupcake or a healthy version.)
Posted by: Sharon | October 17, 2009 at 02:59 PM
I looked just like that this morning after I ate my toast smeared with Nutella. (It was actually a little embarrassing - but delicious!)
Posted by: Deanna | October 17, 2009 at 05:03 PM
Bwahahahahahaha... so preshus!
I also want to know if you found some brilliant "healthy" cupcake recipe, and will you share it with us, pretty please (unless it was made in the microwave, in which case I'll just go the Duncan Hines route...)?
Posted by: Susan | October 17, 2009 at 06:20 PM
Oh, and the only novelty bib we have been gifted was Baby's 1st Easter, 'cuz, ya know, nothing commemmorates the Risen Lord like terrycloth bunnies covered in spit up.
Posted by: Susan | October 17, 2009 at 06:22 PM
It was indeed a "real" non-healthy cupcake. But made from scratch, with "real" ingredients so no hydrogenated oils or red 40 or yellow 5 or HFCS. (Seriously, I for one minute considered Duncan Hines until I looked at the raised-in-a-lab ingredient list.) These were basic vanilla cupcakes and I tossed in some smashed-up organic chocolate cookie bits. I am not scared of sugar and butter and chocolate -- it's that other stuff that I absolutely hate. Goddamn hippie.
If you do want a mix without artificial/hydrogenated crap, Whole Foods sells mixes (cake and frosting) by Naturally Nora. They're actually pretty good.
Posted by: Amalah | October 17, 2009 at 07:11 PM
Oh god, I can't stand them growing up.
But I'm glad to be a witness.
Happy Birthday to your little baby!
Posted by: Zak | October 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Your captions were so perfect!
Posted by: Sensibly Sassy | October 18, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Made. My. Day. Happy bday, Ezra!
Posted by: Jen L. | October 18, 2009 at 11:52 AM
GENIUS! Love it!
Posted by: ginny | October 18, 2009 at 11:58 AM
OMG. OMG.
Amy, this is CLASSIC! I must admit I envy your kids, who will have this blog to look back on as they grow up. And also you, for being able to embarrass the hell out of them with it.
You ROCK. Happy Birthday mighty Ez!
Posted by: Cyn | October 18, 2009 at 05:25 PM
haha, that was so great. i felt like i was there! happy birthday again, ez!
Posted by: cate | October 18, 2009 at 07:00 PM
I just spent an hour flipping back through posts I've missed and I have to tell you that you are truly hilarious (and your boys are truly adorable). I doubt that I fall into your standard demographic and I bet there are many people like me that don't who read your blog. Thank you for making me laugh on a regular basis, you really are a treasure.
Posted by: Lucy's mom | October 18, 2009 at 07:02 PM
The instant I saw the cupcake I was thinking "oh, that kid will be all over that".
How sad is that? LOL
Posted by: Miss Britt | October 18, 2009 at 07:57 PM
Happy Birthday! Happy Ezraversary! I am not a wild fan of babies with food, even my own, but that was hysterical and perfect.
Posted by: Joanne | October 19, 2009 at 09:20 AM
Happy Birthday Ezra!
Hope it was a great day for all!!
Posted by: AmazingGreis | October 19, 2009 at 10:22 AM
That made my morning! Great stuff.
Posted by: kellyannecat | October 19, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Freaking cutest thing I have seen.
Posted by: Shannon | October 19, 2009 at 01:53 PM
So great! Awesome memories.(And we had that bib! Party City, anyone?)
Posted by: Pam | October 19, 2009 at 02:42 PM
Ohhh, Ezra. Oh, big, mighty Ez.
Amy, it's not even RIGHT how adorable your kids are.
Posted by: Amanda | October 20, 2009 at 01:54 PM