Ready for 3!

Somebody here is so darn excited about the birthday coming up. He takes every opportunity to inform me, that everyone else's birthday is now over and it is HIS turn. I dare say it is. He has waited patiently all year, for his Anna's birthday to get over, then his Appa's, his Amma's, his Tattha's, his Chitthappa's, his Chitthi's, our anniversary, and now FINALLY....HIS BIG DAY! Phew. That's a lot to ask of a child.

We've covered a lot of ground together, as in the menu has been decided, as are some of the other little components that will go into his day. The idea has been to keep it very very simple and fill it with the things he would really delight in. Like cake, candle, balloons, some TV, a lollipop, birthday song on youtube, and a gift of an addition to his existing lego blocks. I can't think of anything that would make him happier.

Yesterday being our special Monday, we set aside those conversations, and went shopping instead. For birthday clothes, for which he patiently obliged as I measured him for size. We made some nice finds and colours that I think he would look cute in. That was followed by a relaxing haircut, where he was lulled by the sound of the clippers and invigorated by the prospect of a lolly at the end.

Thambi's life is full of such highpoints these days and he gives us the complete satisfaction of revelling in each and every one of them with his trademark joy, doubling our own. So end of Year 3....here we come!