From One to Five

Happy Birthday Ewan!

Friday, September 5, 2008

It's Ewan's 5th birthday.

What an exciting day it was for us parents . Me and my wife Joie planned Ewan's birthday to be celebrated at his kinder school. It was the first time he spent his birthday with his classmates and teachers.

Two(2) weeks before this day. We didn't expect Ewan to tell us his wishes for his birthday.
When he went home from school , all of sudden , he told us that he wanted balloons , cakes and goodies for his birthday.
This was the first time ever he told us this kindda stuffs.

Thus, a week before his birthday Joie prepared a list for Ewan's school birthday party.
-- party caps
-- goldilocks cake and candles
-- a quarter pint ice cream
-- chicken and spaghetti from Jolibee.
-- party goodies for boys and girls.
-- party invitation

I was tasked to get the names of Ewan's classmates at school for the invitation. I asked his teacher to provide us with the list for his classmates for the birthday invitation.
Of course, I also asked the his teacher what time will be the start for snack time of the students. "12:45 to 1 PM", the teacher replied.

D-DAY
12:00 noon , my wife ordered the cake at Goldilocks.

at 12:30 PM, The Jolibee delivery guy arrived at school to deliver the chicken and spaghetti we ordered(a day before).

12:45pm we were all set waiting outside Ewan's classroom, waiting for the teacher to inform us that its time for Ewan's birthday celebration.
Sure enough , at 1pm the teacher signaled us to come inside.

Its kind of a heart warming experience to see Ewan's classmates so eager for the celebration.
After singing the birthday song , while we and the teacher's were serving food , one student would say "teacher , where's my ice cream?" or you'll hear Ewan suddenly burst "What a wonderful day!".
Ewan's teacher informed me that there is a bag full of gifts from Ewan's classmates.
Its very touching to hear when his teacher telling us that her class has the most very active "kulit" students, but she's happy to see that her students really had concerns for one another. Citing some example that one student said "teacher... where's my gift?", as if asking the teacher not to forget on giving the gifts to Ewan.
Of course my wife had a "heart to heart" parent to teacher talk about Ewan's progress in school.

After Ewan's birthday party , while at home , me and my wife were really happy for the fact that we granted Ewan's wish for a birthday celebration at school , plus happy to know that our son will surely grow up to be a responsible and caring person as what we wished him to be.

Trully , What a wonderful day for all of us.


( to be continued.. for Ewan's post birthday celebration at home)