Happy 3rd Birthday, Faith!

It was her 3rd birthday and the first time that we are letting her celebrate it with her friends in class.

Faith was excited. When asked, she immediately said she wanted a Mickey Mouse cake -- fresh from receiving Mickey's stickers and her pictures being shown in the March Playhouse Disney Birthday Book. She also firmly decided that she wanted party hats and some noise makers to be included in the goodie bags for her friends.

We made plans to get the cake and put together the goodie bags. Unfortunately, she's been sick pretty much the entire month of Mar. In fact, she's out of school more than half the time. Faith first came down with runny nose and cough a week after Saige's birth. Since that time, as soon as she more or less recovered and we sent her back to school, she would came back 2 days later with something else or the same symptoms, but conditions aggravated. The week of her birthday, we decided not to let her go to school at all until she recovered.

On the day of her birthday, we had to bring her in to see her PD for the 3rd time in a row within a period of 3 weeks. I do not know whether to be consoled when her PD sang her a birthday song when she noted that it was Faith's birthday while looking at her record sheet. She had to be put on the nebuliser and becos the cake was already pre-ordered, we decided to head to school after the doctor's visit to celebrate in class.

And so it was, our little darling girl celebrated her 3rd birthday with her friends in class, runny nose and cough in all. I brought her home after she had lunch.

At night, the daddy bought another slice of cake home and we sang her a birthday song and cut the little cake since Louis was busy at work and couldn't make time to be there when she celebrated it in class.

I've been forewarned that Faith's going to fall sick very often during the first 6 months of school. I only hope that next year, she would be hale and healthy on her birthday.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Faith!