Through my eyes

My mum and dad told me they will be going away for work next week for 10 days. I will be staying with my aunt when they are away. They just told me that they will be going away for work and won’t be back for the next 10 days starting from next Monday. They asked me to behave myself when I stayed with my aunt. I have to make sure that I do my homework and take my meals everyday.

Without them knowing, I overheard them mentioning about going to Egypt. Are they going to Egypt for work? Where is Egypt? I know they will send me a postcard whenever they are away for work. I shall wait for the postcard from them.

All the excitement of parties and presents are over. Mum told me that I have to wait for another year before I can celebrate my brithday. Well, I don’t really understand what is one year. She told me one year has 12 months. Still I cannot comprehend this. Then she said, it’s 365 days. Now I understand but it’s a long way to go before I can celebrate my birthday again.

Today is my 5th birthday. My parents wished me ‘Happy Birthday’ and sang ‘Happy Birthday’ song when I woked up in the morning. They told me that I already had my birthday parties in school and at home, so there will be no party today.

But, they offered to bring me to McDonalds for my favorite Happy Meal. I declined as I will be going to my friend, Jolene, birthday party in the afternoon.

My parents dropped me off at Jolene’s place for her kids birthday party. Only kids were invited. So, all parents dropped their kids at Jolene’s place.

We sang ‘Happy Birthday’ song for Jolene and she blew the candles and cut her birthday cake. Her mum gave us so much food and drinks to eat. Then, it was play time. We played a few games and fun time.

In the evening, my parents came to fetch me home.

My parents invited many relatives and cousins to come to our house this evening to celebrate my birthday and also, to celebrate the mooncake festival. I looked forward to going out bringing my horse lantern in the neighbourhood.

In the evening, so many friends came to my house. They brought presents for me too. I was so happy. After we had our dinner, all the children including their parents went out for a walk around the neighbourhood carrying our lanterns. It was so fun to play with lanterns. Luckily no lanterns were burned this year.

After we returned from walking around the neighbourhood, I got to open my presents. Everyone gave me something pink which is my favorite color. I have pink dolls, pink towels, pink comb, pink blankets, etc, etc.

I was so happy and I thanked everyone again for the wonderful gifts.

Today, I woke up early as I was very excited about my birthday party in school. I woke up my mum and dad who were still sleeping. They told me its still early and asked me to go back to sleep.

Finally, the alarm rang and everyone woke up. I woke up on my own. My dad did not have to wake me up today. After we got ready, they send me to school. They told me they will come back at 10 AM and brought my birthday cake and party bags during break time.

When I walked out from my class during break time, I saw my mum and dad were already waiting for me with the cake, sausages, French fries and party bags.

My teacher brought all my classmates to the party corner and my parents helped to place the things they brought on the table. My mum helped to place the candles on the cake and lit the candles. All my friends sang ‘Happy Birthday’ song to me. I cut the cake and dad took some pictures.

My mum and teacher helped to distribute the cakes to my friends and we ate together. After that, we went back to the class. Teacher told us to collect the party bags after the class is over. So, I only gave the party bags to my friends before the go back home.

Tonite, my mum, dad and I are so busy preparing for my class party tomorrow. They have bought the party bags, toys and balloons. We will put all the toys and balloons into the party bags for me to distribute to my friends in Montessori school tomorrow.

My mum will arrange the toys and balloons in a roll. My dad will open the party bag. I will take the toys and balloons and put them in the bag.

In all, we prepared 20 party bags for me to bring to school tomorrow.

Yesterday was really a hectic day for me and my parents. Saturday is usually a hectic day but yesterday was extremely hectic. Usually, I have ballet and music class on Saturday. Yesterday, my mum and dad has started their badminton session with friends from 3 - 5 PM. This is going to be a weekly affair.

I joined the badminton session and enjoyed watching my mum playing badminton. She was so good. My mum and dad tried to teach me to play badminton. I have my own little rackets that my mum bought for me.

Not only that, we had to attend my cousin’s, Johan, birthday party in the evening. His actual birthday was on September 11. My parents bought a jelly cake for him in the shape of a red Ferrari. It looked so nice.

When we left home at 6PM, I was already so exhausted. I told my mum I wanted to sleep. She told me to take a short nap on the way to Johan’s house. In less than a minute, I fell asleep.

I only woke up the next day at 7AM.

My parents told me I was so tired that I slept through the birthday party and did not want to wake up to join the fun.

Today, my mum and dad dropped me at school and went to see my principal. Luckily this time was not complain about my test or anything academic. It was to find out about class party. They wanted to know what can they bring for the class party to celebrate my birthday in class.

This Montessori school is strict in what the students can eat. They only allowed cakes, french fries, nuggets and party bags without sweets. Definitely no ice cream or soft drinks.

This whole week is rather the usual week except that my parents have started discussing with me about my coming birthday. I am going to be 5 years old on Sept 23. They asked what sort of cake I would like to have for my birthday. As usual, I told them it’s Disney Princess or Barbie.

My mum is the excited one. My dad is so cool. She has started to inquire about the cake and called up bakeries.

Finally they decided on a butter cake with Barbie and a jelly cake.

Today is THE day. This is the day where I have to play the electone in front of the whole class. My parents will be there together with the rest of the parents including the principal of the music school.

The principal is going to evaluate and give us feedback on our performance. This is the scariest part. If I don’t play well, will she say bad things about me?

My mum has packed the jelly we made yesterday and placed it in a plastic container. I hope my friends will like it. 

I am nervous but I will still have to attend this session. We will leave for my ballet and music class in a short while.