Monday, December 29, 2008

Uncle Elan and Ivry's Fourth Birthday

It was a glorious three days with my brother Elan who had just three days to be with us. For me, it was an opportunity to connect just like old times but with a bit heavier emotional baggage than usual. But for Ivry, it was a very special time to finally meet his Uncle Elan as opposed to hearing about him virtually.

Ivry was so excited as we were all to have a family representative celebrate his musical birthday with Daisy, his music teacher from Household Harmony. We greatly benefited from Uncle Elan's technical expertise as we uploaded yesterday afternoon a youtube video (10 minutes) of the musical celebration. Click here to see the video.

As I'm writing this, I'm a bit wistful about Uncle Elan's leaving. We managed to deeply bond during this brief three day time. Perhaps because we both knew that we didn't have much time and wanted to focus on making each other happy and feel comfortable. I must have watched that youtube video at least ten times - now that Uncle Elan left, I'll probably watch it some times more.

Happy Holidays.