Don Don's BIG Day

Saturday, September 27 came and it is marked as a red date in a BIG Calendar hanging in our wall. This date marks the 5th birthday of our Unico Hijo Dondon who had been excited of this date from several weeks earlier.

We had plans earlier to have the celebration held in Iloilo City together with just few very close relatives. Due to bad weather and almost weekly visit of typhoons that we cancelled the plan at the last minute and we settled to have it instead in our house with the same visitors invited.

My motorcycle accident the day before had me almost bed ridden and dont have any much use especially in food preparation. I just helped my nephews with hanging candies and lollipops in the pabitin and pukpok palayok and other goodies for the parlor games. So again, my Superwoman/Wifey had to do all the shopping in the morning of the celebration (since my accident made her rush home after her work and was not able to do the shopping) and the cooking by our househelps and some relatives who managed to do it in given a short time. We are preparing foods for afternoon Merienda and Dinner so there's not much cooking to do and to think that only few visitors are invited and mostly are kids.
Afternoon came and people in the kitchen are still busy with frying while i am with Tay Julio our manghihilot giving me a massage and realigning my dislocated ribcage and hips. I almost fainted with pain even with just a little pressure applied. Finally after almost 15 minutes of pressing and rubbing, kernels of sweat came out of my body. And i felt better. The rain outside is pouring tirelessly. Looks like the kids will never have the chance to play their games on our bermuda covered lawn.

Its almost 4:00 pm when our visitors came just after the rain stopped. We started the party and Dondon blowed his candles and the kids are singing "Happy Birthday". I can see excitement in my son's eyes while the kids are singing. Maybe beacuse this time it is his own candle he's going to blow and not someone else's. Its his birthday and he's been looking forward to this and is getting excited as the days came closer. He even forgot to make a wish and blew the candle right after the song!


The kids then rushed out to the lawn for their games.

The sky can no longer hold the rain and starts to pour again just in time the Pabitin were already wrestled by the kids to the ground and we again went inside for the foods and more games!

The party finally ended around 8:00 pm and the kids were all tired but with big smiles on their faces. This might not be the grandest birthday for our son but this is the happiest one because for the first time, we celebrated it as a whole family.