Pa's birthday

This year Pa's birthday fell on a sunday. And the best part was he was not working - long day or night and was very much at home. So we got to enjoy the day. It fell on the day after our trip to London, so we were pretty tired. Me and amma woke up as usual and went about with our breakfast. Then amma asked me to wake up Pa - as is usually the norm on weekend mornings. She also brought this lovely musical birthday card and gave it to me to gift it to Pa. I opened the card to see what the huge smile on amma's face meant and was pleasantly surprised to hear the 'Happy birthday' song. Amma had been preparing me for over a week about Pa's birthday, but I was only interested in singing the birthday song to myself. Pa as expected was all smiles when he heard the song , jumped out of bed and called everyone at home and told them about my special gift. The cute thing about the card was that 'Zappy' sings the song. And the third line goes Happy Birthday from ....Zappy, which sounded so much like my name that Paa thought that we had somehow added my name into the card. So there goes my gift to Paa this year - sponsored by mom of course. Amma made the usual payasam and a typical sunday meal. Then we went out to get some chocolate and strawberry cake rolls for Paa and his friend who had come home that day. I thoroughly enjoyed the choco cake, but did not like the strawberry one. Plans to dine out at restaurants have been banned by mom until I am a little older cos I give her such a hard time that she cannot enjoy her meal!! I spent a lot of time playing with Paa and generally having fun which was nice.