Why did you leave me here alone?
Wait, don't go so fast
I'm missing the moments as they pass...
I love this song by Chantal Kreviazuk. It rings so true when you realize that time is passing so quickly and your children are growing up so fast - too fast.
Nasif's birthday was on the 16th but we waited until this past weekend to celebrate so that we had time to invite his friends after the winter break. When I think about it I just feel that there is no way possible that it was three years ago he was born and forever changed our lives. These past three years have been the best three years of our lives. We've had our ups and downs but I'd say that the ups outweigh the downs a million to one. Mahbub and I'd both say that there is no we love more than our little puchki, Nasif.
I am sure that everyone has noticed my absence since Nasif's birthday. I worked so hard to make sure his party was a huge hit! I started weeks before cleaning out my house and reorganizing everything. I took a bunch of boxes to charity. I made his invites, the birthday banner, party hats, dinosaur eggs and fossils, and most of the food.
On Nasif's actual birthday we went to lunch with some of our good friends. We went to Olive Garden for lunch and had soup and salad and bread sticks. Nasif wanted cake so I also got him cake but he took one bite and looked at me and said, "Maa, I prefer homemade much more." lol! I guess I already have him spoiled to homemade goodies!
We had a lot of activities going on the past week or two also. We went to a friend's pirate playdate, met friends for breakfast and lunch, had other birthday parties to attend, and a Bengali celebration.
Nasif's party was Saturday. The weather has been exceptionally warm this winter so we had our January birthday party outside. It was sunny and almost 75 degrees out. To lead our guests to our outside location I had dinosaur footprints on posterboard and taped them to the floor from the front door to the back door. We had our guests arrive and then we started eating. We had pizzas, pico de gallo with tortilla chips, baby carrots with ranch, cherry tomatoes, grapes, pretzels, popcorn, olives, and almond butter and grape jelly sandwiches. For drinks I made ginger -lemonade punch with strawberry ice cubes, ice tea, and water. After we ate we did our dinosaur dig. I had Mahbub empty Nasif's baby pool and we filled it with dirt and buried dinosaur eggs, dinosaur fossils, and gold coins. Then the kids took turns digging up the treasures in the dirt. I had made paper bags with dinosaur fossil rubbings and their names like Paleontologist Nasif. Afterwards we had a really cool triceratops pinata that my friend Rachel made for the party. The kids just loved it. I had put kitkats, peanut butter cups, Hershey's kisses, and lollipops inside. After the pinata I brought out Nasif's birthday cake I made him and the cupcakes. His cake was white with homemade icing and I had decorated I made a river with mud and grass around and then I put toy dinosaurs on the top and wrote "Happy Birthday Nasif". The cupcakes were homemade chocolate with homemade icing. I used my mom's recipe because they are egg free and dairy free. We lit his candles and blew them out and sang happy birthday. After that everyone played and ate cake and ice cream. As our guests left, we handed out goody bags that we had made up with 3 color sheets, 4 dinosaur crayons, 3 dinosaur tattoos, 2 squishy dinosaurs, a dinosaur stencil, and either 2 dinosaur rubber duckies or a magnify glass. I had them in little party bags and had labeled the top of each bag with each child's name.
Nasif had a blast and loved having his friends over to enjoy his birthday party and to play together. We all went to bed early, but not until Nasif had opened all his gifts and I think played with every single one. Just for memory purposes I am going to list what he got: stuffed giant trex, dinosaur encyclopedia, batman car and truck, foam blocks, crayola color wonder desk, crayola color wonder cars book, dinosaur bath fizz eggs, bathtub crayons, cars sticker box, toy story journal with pen, Tommy hilfiger outfit, 2 tops: 1 long sleeve, 1 short sleeve, a preK workbook, 3 toy story puzzels, a super hero cape complete with mask, 2 animal puzzles, 3 jeeps, a claybook, a noisy racecar (lol!), a dinosaur puzzle book, a dinosaur popup book, an Oso color book, a pencil box, pack of crayons, a pack of color pencils, a toy story puzzle, and a Dr. Seuss memory matching game. I think that's all. I plan on taking a picture of him with each gift for us to include in our thank you notes to everyone.
I think that most if not everyone really enjoyed the party, at least I hope they did! I am such a perfectionist that I know for next time there are some things that I am going to do differently. lol!
Anyways, once I find my camera cord and download my pictures I am going to post some of them here. My friend Jennie also took a bunch of pictures at his party so I am going to post her pictures too. Maybe I'll make a separate post so that we can see them and remember them all.
Well, I guess that is all for now... I desperately need to give Nasif a hair cut. He keeps fussing about it because he says that god gave him this hair and god will be sad and cry if I cut it off. lol! Sorry I guess and too bad... Everyone thinks you are looking like a hippy or maybe one of the Beatles!
Oh before I go I also wanted to say that his favorite word right now is "ration". He asks me ALL.DAY.LONG if I need to ration this or that. Like we had some tortilla chips - "Maa do you need to ration these chips?" or when I gave him his vitamins, "Maa do you need to ration these vitamins of mine?" lol. If he can he asks if I need to ration it. lol!
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