My baby boy is 2 already!

Today is my son nazim's birthday. he was born at 10.43 a.m. on a friday and weighed 2.45 kg. he came out into this world after hours and hours of labor (both for him and for me) looking rather purple and wrinkly. and after mommy couldn't push anymore the doctor thought it would be wise to pull him out with a pair of forceps. 2 years have gone sooo quickly and my little baby boy has grown up and has become amazingly intelligent, masyaAllah. he can understand so many things now, and i can talk to him and he would respond to me accordingly, sometimes even surprising me with new words that i don't even rememeber teaching him.

We had an early celebration at the PJ A&W last saturday and even though we had the place for a very limited time, the party went on very smoothly with little hick ups here and there (you will find out why)...The cake was an amazing display of an airport runaway, complete with cargo trucks, communication tower, small people and of course, a plane.

nazim was excited to see this and wanted to take out the little props the moment he saw the cake. it was a nice moist buttery butter cake with sweet buttercream icing...the lady who did this cake makes the best tasting and best looking cakes!!

so the party started around 3, with the food being served and people started to fill the party room. at this point nazim was still excited to play in the playground just outside of the party room. by 3.20pm, most of the invitees were there and people were just eating and mingling. i wish i had more time to mingle with the friends i've invited but i guess i just had to keep things running smoothly with the food, and nazim and etc. so by 3.45 pm it was time to cut the cake and also the time for the A&W bear to make its appearance. (this is the part where the hick up is about to start).

Nazim was ready for the cutting cake session, when he first caught glimpse of the bear. at first he was pretty excited, but when the bear came closer and shook his hand, he suddenly burst into tears and he became hysterical, clutching on to me like he just saw a ghost. and he didn't want to be seated in front of the cake anymore and just continued screaming with tears falling down his cheeks like rain. so i tried to calm him down by taking him to another room, but it still didn't work...and then his daddy took him out to the playground and...guess who was there? THE BEAR!!! amin tried to tell him that the bear was nice and made nazim shake hands with him..(at this point he had already stop crying but still a bit apprehensive about the bear).

back in the party room, all the kids were still surrounding the cake and when it looks like he is quite ready again, we brought him in...and i guess the room reminded him again about what just happened a few minutes again...which led him to yet another episode of scaredness but this time less, because the bear was not in the same room. so i quickly asked for the candles to be lit up (to distract him from being sad again)....i was the first one to start singing the birthday song (again, a strategy i used to make him forget about the bear and it worked!) he blew the candles with a little help from mommy...the funny part was while we were singing the birthday song, he looked around the room (even turning to the back) to see if the bear was around!!! hahahah..my poor baby, it was supposed to be a happy moment for him and that bear spoiled it for him.

so, the next day, since we still had some more cake left, i put two candles on the leftover cake and had another round of birthday song for him. this time, he knew he was on safe grounds with no hairy-orange-colored-sweater-wearing bear around to shake his hands. and he had the biggest smile on!! and since today is his actual birthday, we might have another round of candle blowing :)

THE MUCH DREADED BEAR
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