Caroleen’s Treasures

Happy Birthday Ella!!!! Our baby is now 5 and is so lady like. I remember when she was born, she was just 3.3 pounds but she grew so fast and she even looked like Buddha She woke up early as what she has planned last night. She was so thrilled it was her birthday and always says she was now 5, no longer 4. Awww….where did the time go? She could not wait to have her own room and always on the sink washing anything she could grab there. She was saying she is a big girl now and demands she would go to school alone.

As planned, she will have a small party in the afternoon. Her Tita Crislyn and Tita CheChe arrived at 1pm. Ella ran to them in excitement and was so proud of the house and the whole place. I am just so glad they made it as I want Ella to have some nice pictures. Crislyn got a new camera, a cannon rebel one. It was so beautiful and takes awesome photos. At 4pm the party began with a prayer. The kids gathered around the table after singing a birthday song to the proud celebrant taking turns to get food. We have cake, spaghetti, buko salad, buttered chicken, quail eggs (courtesy of Inang), orange juice for the kids and coke for me Ella was so happy and she entertained her visitors well, sometimes scolding a kid who is not behaving well. I am happy she had visitors from the church and neighbors. After they ate, they went infront of the chapel and one group of kids outside the fence have been mad jealous about the party that she threw a stone on them hitting one boy in the nose and pricking one girl in the thumb. Ella went so hysterical and wailed like she was the one being attacked. I went there and called the girl, asked her why and told her to say sorry. The girl was sorry and while dhe was saying the words, Ella keeps on crying and gets even louder as the girl says the words After the sorry’s Ella went out with a plate full of spaghetti for them all. Oh Ella was a birthday present from one of the girls. Ella was so excited to announce she has a present…it was a chick!!!! Yes, a chick! A sick chick. I do not know what is wrong but I can tell it is sick. She carried it around and even poses infront of the camera with it.

Kids got balloons too and loot bags…I put in there some glue, ruler and pencil along with candies. They have enjoyed it so much and so Ella does. Inang and Tatang were so welcoming to my sisters and they had a nice time talking until Inang and Tatang has to leave. That gave me more time to pose infront of th camera. Then at almost 7pm, we went to the terminal to send her tita’s home.

Today was a tiring day but seeing Ella so happy is worth the money, time and effort.