a day of celebration

a day after the comp exam, day two of the regatta, and our friend erica's 25th birthday, yesterday was a great day of celebrating together.

 the boats arrived with a battalion of white triangles

 followed by the flying bold colored spinnakers.

 my eyes are easily drawn to the ballooning red sails.

 i want to be a part of their crew.

 the boats sailed toward the french side as we packed our things to see them from the shore.

 one last picture before we head to a beach right under those clouds.

 erica and jon picked us up in their car and we all headed to baie rouge.  we sat here on chairs with umbrellas and listened to a one man caribbean steel drum band play jazzy tunes like "take the a-train" making me think my grandfather whispered in his ear to play that one so i would know his spirit was there.  the weather was cool, with the clouds hiding the sun, we watched the boats out in the distance and ezra in the foreground.  

erica, birthday girl, comp survivor, lover of jon, and dear friend of ours.

ezra, only child, doted upon sweet son of ours

 the players out at sea

 there were swimmers in the ocean the entire time, rain or shine, 

enjoying the push and pull of the strong tide.

the sun tried to break through. 

 but it started to rain and it did so for a good while.  ezra played with the water dripping under the umbrella and ran back and forth in front of our chairs under the sprinkling rain.

 these games are my favorite to watch...  

 and take pictures of.

his attention is so focused on this lovely little distraction.

 this was my lovely little distraction.  i stayed dry on my chaise under an umbrella and knit some stitches while michael and erica recounted as many questions as they could remember from the torturous undertaking that befell them yesterday.  they won't have their results for another two weeks, which is seemingly another type of medical student torture.

 jon thinks this is funny.

here is a rare moment of me standing cheek to cheek with my man.

 this is a not so rare moment of ezra contentedly playing with his trucks in the sand.

 toward the end of the day the blanket of clouds moved enough for the sun to shine down.

we instantly warmed up and rejoiced in its awaited arrival.

 ezra demonstrated this with his whole body and soul.  i love this about being a mother.  to witness ezra's spontaneity and happiness of being in the moment is a zen experience and always makes my heart swell like the red spinnakers of the sailboats i love so much.

 after going home and washing the sand off we headed back out for birthday dinner.

another little sparkly moment from ez.  this one depicts - happy full tummy and excitement because it's raining outside and we're sitting under an awning with jon and erica on her birthday!  ezra loves all these things.

 erica is one of his favorite girls on the island

 but his favorite little girl is bianca.  more reason to celebrate came later on when we unexpectedly met up with bianca's family at a bakery for dessert.  here they are having the mini macarons they chose from the case together.  a green one for bianca and a pink one for ezra.

 they were so in tune when they saw each other.  they immediately began a little hop forward then hop back dance in the bakery and when we went to sit down outside they sat in the same chair at the same time as if it had been choreographed.

 they happily indulged in some kisses

because they love one another.