Birthday Party | 2011

Jakjak's first birthday was spent at the Little Angels' Home in Tagaytay City, Philippines. It's an orphanage that we found hiding in it's little nook over the hills. We have supported the children there as best as we could when we found it. At first, only a handful of people had helped us on our mission but that soon grew to a good number through our friends and organizations. We spent our first birthday there because we wanted to give back for our wonderful gift, our very own Jakjak (who had a not so ideal birth).


Up until today, we never really celebrated Jakjak's birthday outside of our family (we celebrated once in Lola's school where he was a temp student). Today, we agreed on celebrating Jakjak's birthday in his school (his current pre-school). Somehow, all of his classmates seemed to have celebrated their birthdays in school. It's not peer pressure, nor did he ask us to give him a birthday celebration in school, we just thought about giving him one. He did good in school and he had always been such a darling at home. He deserves this treat (we found out later that you can't celebrate birthdays when he steps up to primary school - so it's good that we had one now).

This party was all mum's idea. Dad won't take any credit for it. Dad was merely there to support every step of the way. And we're all happy that it turned out quite good. Instead of a big cake that we would need to cut up for everybody, we opted instead to get a set of cupcakes made for Jakjak's birthday theme, cars. Goodie bags for his classmates were segregated for girls and boys and some fun was had with relighting candles to blow (and blow and blow). We figured everybody in class had fun, and that's what birthdays are all about.


(Unfortunately, Jakjak came up with a fever that night - sigh)