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We celebrated Leith’s birthday today, Sunday, although his true birthday was on June 5th- Friday. Of course, he had already had a mini-party at his other grandparents’ house, with a Dinosaur cake made by his mommy, but now was our turn.
Asma made him a Cars movie cake, his other passion besides dinos, and it looked really good. We made a day of it by barbecuing some kebabs and chicken cutlets, which he enjoys, while also providing him with heaps of his beloved rice! It was a fun little dinner with Leith and our guest star Jowdat, who had shown up today, as well, to celebrate with the most awesome nephew imaginable. Omar S was not there, unfortunately, as he was quite wrapped up in work to make up for his previous day looking at apartments in Montreal with Asma. At any rate, it’s always amusing to watch Leith eat a rice and meat dinner, because he always very… enthusiastic at it, but today he was especially funny with his comments and the “me want this”, etc. I could not really describe it further, and I wish I had filmed the mealtime!!
When we brought in the cake and we sang to him, and he looked at “Lighting McQueen” in cake form, he literally dropped down from excitement. Then the present were brought out and he was speechless, which is unusual for him these days, but only for a moment. Then the typical Leith came out to play and he began to tear into his gifts to see what everybody had gotten him. There were clothes, blocks, a ball-throwing bucket (which terrified him with its arms, as he does not like human-like characteristics in anything he plays with, or eats), as well as an alphabet teaching “computer” from me. He, of course, loved my gift the most, or at least played with it more while here, and was absolutely terrified of the bucket!
I happened to capture the gift-rummaging on grainy video- grainy, because of the low-light conditions, but still quite viewable. Here is a link, for anybody interested:
http://www.vimeo.com/5053270
Until later, I hope all are well!