Jeremy's 7th Birthday

Jeremy turned 7 last Dec. 10. The usual suspects were present to wish him happy birthday (all four uncles, Noel, Elmer, Alan and Joey, and Tita Meanne, then cousins, Paola and Carlo, and the 3 other kids at home: Ate Jam and cousins Justin and Johanna). Three nights before, I brought home 3 large gifts from his Tita Weng, my officemate. He was literally spinning in delight. He wanted to open it there and then but was mercifully convinced to wait for his day.

It doesn't take much to bring the wide-eyed, jumping-up-and-down kind of happiness to an almost-seven-year-old boy. Any toy, however simple, is guaranteed to elicit this kind of reaction. Let's hope he'd always be this unspoiled in his pleasures. Simple toys.

His wish when he blew the candles on his cake?...... "I wish i lived in toy kingdom!" :)