Apology!

Time to revive the "Video of the Month"

                                 And this is the best thing I have seen in a long time!!

Four!!

Angel turned four last week. It has become kind of tradition to write something about each of her birthdays. So I cannot not write on the special day!

You can read the previous ones here –

First Birthday

Second Birthday

Third Birthday

I write about her for her, so that when she grows up, she has something to know about her younger self and if she is anything like me, she will like it :)

I wanted to write something profound, something mind-shattering, something beautiful, but I am just not able to. There are too many emotions going through me to be able to write anything sensible. So, for now, I will just pen down four things of her at this age which I don’t want to forget.

1. The way she snuggles up to me in the night, looking for me in her sleep, chasing after me all night longing to sneak into my blanket and discard hers. It stiffens my neck and back to sleep in such cramped quarters apart from the fear of crushing her at the back of my mind night after night, but I can’t think of the day when she will not want to snuggle up :(

2. The way she is so generous in giving compliments :

Mama, your shoes are sooo nice

I love your dress

Thank you so much for getting me the toy

You make such yummy food for me mama

And if there are no more compliments to give - Thank you for listening

3. When I say “I love you soo much..“ in our cuddling sessions and she says “I love you more than that! “ I really don’t know how she has picked up this notion but for the time being I love it.

4. This time, along with taking the hand prints and foot prints in our usual book, I baked them too, the prints I mean which became a great activity for her. Take a look:

This was also my fb update for the day (Yeah, that has become a tradition too :P)

"Hands down, the sweetest little girl!"

I call her the sweetest little girl as I have my reasons. Number 1 being, I am her mother. Apart from that I love how she agrees to what we are saying, if explained logically to her, without throwing any tantrums (most of the time!). On those days, I realize that we have been doing something right!

I know I sound like a besotted mother for whom everything about her child is adorable and cute. I probably am such a mother, but I can’t help being one. This little human being has made a huge place in our hearts, so much so that we can’t see how we lived without her all these years!

This year for the first time, her birthday party was not on her birthday, it was on a Sunday preceding her birthday. As mentioned some time back, her favorite character is Elmo from 123 Sesame Street, hence that became our theme. So her birthday invites, cake, presents, party favors were all related to Elmo and friends. We had booked a place which had an indoor playground and the children also got to do ceramic painting. Her close friends from the day care and some of our colleagues were invited. She had a great time. She celebrated her birthday on the actual day in the school again followed by the birthday dinner at an Indian restaurant. She requested for cake pops for her birthday and since she hardly requests for anything related to food, I had to fulfill it.

Yeah, the request was last moment, 

couldn't find the cake pop sticks

Once her birthday is gone, I feel a hollow, as I am always doing/planning/preparing something or the other for her birthday for quite some time. Waiting for her next birthday, here's to another happy, healthy and successful year!