Happy Birthdays are important.

Arjun's 4th birthday showed me that children look forward to their birthdays. And for the next one too. They look forward for the next one too. The cake is an integral part of the event, choosing the cake  is I guess one of the first important decisions taken with far reaching ramifications which will not end with the university that he decides to go to, if he does go to one. His unflinching resolve to be a helicopter pilot is broken only by the thought about the type of helicopters that he would like to fly. Though he has also expressed the desire to be spiderman, the red and blue one, definitely not the black one.  

The first one at the golf course followed by the one at home was the end of the choice making from our end, Mc.Donald's followed, which was followed by dominoes. The next venue is 364 days away. Pooja put it like this Arjun  has all that we did not, does that not make me happy ? Sure it does. Hope we can keep up with it. The excitement of receiving gifts followed with the well trained thank you and waiting for the next one to arrive. The excitement to reach home and open the gifts, when all I want to do is plonk on the bed but I do manage to close the day with reading the bedtime Peter pan story till shut eye happens.  Another day ends.  

This note to myself was written on 25th November 2011