Today is the start of the 2010 year end holidays. And to ensure you start this period of adventure with a bang, we brought you to Civil Service Club to swim. We have not brought you swimming since June because of the terrible Hand Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) that was spreading like wildfires from July. Thankfully, that has kind of stopped (for now).
Well, you are obviously a water baby. I am not just being the proud parent here, but seriously, there’s no fear in you about the water. You even wanted to walk around the baby pool without me holding you, but I am not as confident as you are. Expectedly, you wailed when we took you out, but not as bad as I expected (I hear worse ones when you Grandma or Mum takes you out from the bath) and you are napping like a log now as Papa is writing this. Haha.
If you still do not know by now, you really enjoy birthdays. We say so because whenever the CD plays the Happy Birthday song, you will start to clap and pretend to blow candles. It’s probably the only song that will stop you from fussing out of the hundreds that we have, for now. And what a magical weapon the song is when we need to distract you in the car.
When you attend birthday parties, you never fail to clap enthusiastically (which is really very different from other kiddies your age or even those who are slightly older, but I digress as a proud parent). And of course, you would always volunteer to blow the candles, never mind the distance you are away from the cake. The ultimate evidence of your enjoying birthdays is you will always ask us to feed you with the cake. In fact, you demanded a second serving of the vegetarian black forest cake during your Great-Grandma’s birthday.
Good news is there are going to be quite a few birthdays coming next January and February (your mummy, + grandfather, and then your grandmother). But all good things come to an end, as there is a long drought till yours in September.
This is where Grace's love for birthday parties all begins.
