Mateo has been sooooooooo excited about his upcoming birthday. He knows that first it's Tino's birthday (9-13) and then it's Papi's birthday (9-27). For some reason, we don't believe in celebrating birthdays and having the celebration lasting one day. We make it a long, drawn out process around the Ramirez household. For example, Cristian's birthday was last Thursday. The only thing he wanted for his birthday was for me to take him to Texas de Brazil for dinner, which we did Thursday night. This meant that the kiddos weren't in on the birthday celebration. On Friday Cristian and Tino had baseball practice, so by the time they get back around 9:30 p.m. it's too late for Sarah and Mateo. So Saturday morning, we went to one of the finer dining establishments in town for Cristian's birthday breakfast. In the kids minds, there still was no birthday because there hadn't been cake and no presents that they were aware of. Sunday while Cristian was out home teaching, we hurried and made his "surprise" birthday cake. And on Monday, Cristian's long-awaited package arrived from UPS . . . his new baseball glove.
This morning, Mateo woke up and asked if Papi's birthday was finished already. When I replied "yes", you should have seen the excitement in Mateo's eyes. He ran to the kitchen, pulled out the cupcake pans, put cupcake liners inside the pans, and picked his favorite flavor of cake mix and set it out on the kitchen counter. He then proceeded to climb onto the counter, to look in my "up high" cupboards to find the sprinkles and frosting for his cupcakes. He took a bath, washed his hair, and got dressed into his fancy new clothes. He has doing a project with construction paper, scissors, and glue. I asked him what he was doing, and he started to sing "Happy Birthday To Me, Happy Birthday To Me" . . . and looked at me and told me he was busy making his birthday card. Once again, I am completely open for suggestions as to how I can break it to my little soon-to- be- four year old that his birthday isn't until DECEMBER 11TH. And should we go ahead and save his birthday cupcakes until December 11th or go ahead and eat them tonight for dessert?
Thursday, October 4, 2007
"Happy Birthday to Me"
Posted by heidiram at 5:51 PM
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Easy. How does he feel about practice birthday parties? Or a party for a toy? Or show him the part on Alice in Wonderland and have a merry unbirthday. Or buy him a calendar., or have a party for the Halloween decorations that I'm SURE you have out already. Tell him that when the Christmas tree is in your house you can start to get ready for the birthday.
Ah, let him have fun with it. We, adults, can get far too technical about things like dates and stuff. Unbirthday celebrations, now that is the staff of life!!
You know me I love a party! Let him celebrate! Happy Birthday to all the Ramirez Family. (I am back to blogging Heidi!)
Come on Heid, where's your "Weekly Update"? We are waiting!!!
My mom used to throw unbirthday parties, like the ones in Alice in Wonderland. Most of us were born in January, so there were a lot of free months available. Sometimes I wondered if maybe mom really thought it was one of her 8 kid's birthdays.
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