And she turns four.
My daughter’s fourth birthday is on June 13, and she’s already had two celebrations in honour of it. One was at her kindergarten; the other took place this evening, a combi celebration with our housewarming. She was excited about the party, mainly at the prospect of giving out her goodie bags and receiving lots of cool presents. Amazingly, she even shared ALL her toys without making any fuss about it. It’s a stark contrast from her previous birthday bashes. At those, she was either too young to understand what was going on, or too distraught by having to share her toys with her young guests.
It makes me think that we should not celebrate any of Number Two’s birthdays until s/he is old enough to understand and appreciate just what is so fun about celebrating the day s/he came into this world. It would save us a lot of money on expensive cakes and food for guests, and prevent unnecessary meltdowns. Not to mention the sheer logistics of organising a party on the scale that’s festive enough for the occasion.
We’ll be spending her birthday on a five-day trip to Hong Kong, so there will not be any updates till I get back. Till then, keep it together!
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Deb L
Jun 10, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Happy 4th birthday :)
Most of my birthdays growing up were just family events. These consisted of whatever family was in town (many years that was Mom, Dad & younger siblings), some cake and koolaid, presents, and everybody singing Happy Birthday to me. A couple years I had parties. I got to invite a couple friends, and by “a couple” I mean two or three. We ate cake Mom baked, drank Koolaid, played games like “drop the clothespin” or “musical chairs”, and at some point I opened gifts. No one in my circle of acquaintances ever gave gifts that cost more than $5 or $10 at birthday parties.
I do not understand why people throw giant birthday parties for children. It is so utterly foreign to my idea of what a birthday party is, that I really can’t relate to it. I haven’t “thrown parties” for my little ones. Just family get-together with cake and presents. I refuse to ever be part of the set that rents ponies and DJs.
Sometimes in life, to really appreciate it we need the simple things. :)
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