i don't want to dance if i'm not dancing with you.

izzie never really understood the appeal of her birthday. when she was young her mother and grandmother would make some sort of attempt to make her special day celebratory, but she got older, and had siblings to care for, and her birthday was pushed to the back burner in exchange for making sure her siblings were happy, fed, and bathed. however, then she met casey, and fell face first into the gardner family, where birthdays were celebrated and continuously made into a day of love and festivities with decades-long rituals to share. and as an official unofficial member of the family, izzie's seventeenth birthday was no exception to this, especially not on casey's end.