Twelve years old!!!!

Today is 19th February 2020

My elder son's birthday,

We stopped cake cutting and partying after first three years, for few years we used to decorate different creative decorations n did cake cutting. 

These days we celebrate by cooking all favourites of my kids on that day and make them feel special. Of course this is quite interesting, both my sons love this idea, my DH also enjoys celebrating this way.

Me and my sons love doing creative stuffs and mostly our house is a mess by doing all these never mind kids enjoy these very much. Birthdays are meant for celebrating and spending time with family, those party celebrations are not suitable for us as we can't focus on our kids for that day and make them feel special.

So we follow like this any creative decorations, any new add on special items we see for birthday like birthday banner, led balloons, party coolers likewise, and a special birthday dress for both my sons ( to avoid feeling left out), and their favourite dinner menus, for recent bday they used to prepare birthday menu cards with their favorites and stick on the fridge a week before so that it is easy to organize.

Ok let me share my experience elder son's birthday celebration for this year.

Started day with his favorite food like idly sambar for breakfast,schzewan fried rice for lunch and chapathi panneer butter masala for dinner.

His birthday card
Inside view

 Out side view

 His favorite jamun

Simple birthday decorations I used cloth drying stand to display smiley balloons with his 12 gifts.

Super duper birthday surprise

Well this is February month my elder son's birthday month,today is 16th three days to go.....

So Planning for birthday surprise

Indeed it is a big task to make surprises but not a difficult task….to surprise our kids and make them feel special on their birthday as kids enjoy small happiness of their life, especially my sons love those cute little stuffs.

So I am preparing for surprising my elder son for this year's birthday as this is his 12th birthday and he is just stepping on his teens and also for 2020.

I thought many more things and finally ended up this way like buying 12 gifts and give him as a surprise. But just buying 12gifts n giving will make no surprise.

Ok let me share my plan.

First I made list of his like items and pack in different gift wraps.I started this process of buying from last week.

Buying is not a big deal but as this is for surprise we need to go alone for shopping and after that those items needed to be kept secret till the day of surprise. Hiding things is a big deal in our home as kids explore nook n corner of our home including kitchen.

Somehow I found a secret place, asking any suggestions to my little son will end up in announcing our secret plan, as he can't keep up secrets. So I found a place on my kitchen shelf and hided. Still few more items pending.So far I bought 8 items, one more is on way in courier, planning to buy trolley school bag and lunch bag for one more item am still thinking. 

As that day was regular school day, we are planning for this surprise on that day evening.

Step 1

Wake up with a personalised collage video song with a birthday pop up card,(hand made card)

Process going on

Will share my completed card on my son's birthday as that is a surprise.

Rest all at the end of day.

Evening by all dressed up in traditional clothes, will Give my son a code cracking game, that is in that card he has a set of clues he need to guess right word n find out this 

SURPRISE GIFT

That is he should use first letter of the 12 clues to find above two words.

Later he must go to Fridge for next clue 

The below is the clue card for fridge

Once he gets that he will be directed to gift box place ,(decorations n packing still going on)

Where he can see 12gifts, as an add on he will get 10dhms for guessing gifts correctly without opening it,which he can put in his savings box as well. 

In between I plan to make his favorite breakfast,lunch and dinner with his favorites like jamun and Pani Puri all homemade items for the day, hope he likes this surprise and enjoys his day .

Advance birthday wishes to our son Sukarman

The above is a special photo card for him.