Happy 1st Birthday Ezra!

This cake is for my youngest friend - Ezra from Tasmania. Ezra is Kris' son and you can see numerous photos of this cutie on Kris' blog. He celebrates his first birthday today. And as per Indian tradition (I am not sure if it is followed across the world) we keep one candle extra on the cake. While, the birthday boy/girl blows one out, the other, which is still burning, is put in front of the deities in the small temple of the house.

Here is a special wish for Ezra

A very happy birthday to Ezra. It has been fun seeing you grow from a fetus to a one year old boy! Hope you have appreciated all the love that I have sent you over the months. There is more to come if you promise to continue to be this charming and cute.

Loads of love and hugs and cheek pulls and kisses from New Delhi!

"You teach best what you most need to learn." -- Richard David Bach

Bob Dylan says, "The answer my friend is blowin in the wind" but I beg to differ. I think books, reading and opening the young minds to possibilities beyond terror and communalism is the only way the global menace of terrorism can end.

And like Kris said, Loads of hugs and kisses too would work their charm.