Nathan never left my side since the day he was born, well except when I had to go back to Indonesia taking care of my mother. It was the longest 10 days in my life.
Every mum may understand the overwhelming feeling of not seeing her children or hearing them laugh. We probably feel relief for couple of hours or might be one or two days but after that it is a torture.
Anyway, the first day in childcare he just doesn't want to go home. He enjoys being with same age friends and suddenly his English is better than his Indonesian. We rarely speak in English with him just because we want him to keep our Indonesian heritage. It is amazing how sometime we underestimate the children ability to learn. From a simple Hi-5 and other baby education dvd he learns English and even Spanish.Yet it is scary thinking that how many bad words or wrong attitude we show infront of our children. Yeap, if he can learn language he can also absorb our negatives.
All in all, I learn how and who am I just by inspecting what my son does or says.
So, we celebrate Nathan's achievements by throwing him his first birthday party. Yes our bad that we didn't celebrate his first and second birthday.
I underestimate the preparation of having party for 60 plus the little people. I planned to make birthday cake, Nathan's favorite Indonesian cheesecake, macarons, and cookies for take home party favor.
And yet two days before the event I only able to make the cheesecake and just started the birthday cake. So I have to abandon the cookies. At 2am on the big day I still trying to bake the mighty macarons, which only half of batch was decent enough to be called macaron.
