Chapter 22: Chapter 22
Amanda
Happy Birthday to you ...
Happy Birthday to you...
I sang along excitedly yet come and thankful Today lyrics of the birthday song looking at the kids and each person holding them. Carrying them as if they were making claims to some personal property or something.
Samuel, Sebastian and Sophia my kids!
Sebastian my boy was my mini version. He was just like me in every way my eyes my skin colour even my hair colour. Samuel looked like me and his dad mixed in clay,lighter than Tunde but not as much as I was, while Sophia the daddy's pet was brown skinned and beautiful just like my husband.
My relatives well excluding chief Mrs because she no longer stays with the Daniels. Even though my father claim he has forgiven her, he requested her to leave the house because he couldn't live with a murderer then there is some of my husband's family member with Sandra and her family and also Ahmed.( I wonder what he is still doing single till now)
Finally next to me he's my husband the man who has been with me all these years who stayed through thick and thin even when I was dead( lol)
The birthday children We're holding hands now standing opposite their cakes. There is this big chocolate cake with chocolate icing in the middle and each of them had your own cake in front of them with their names on each cake and a big number one embedded in each middle. I see my babies can't wait to devour the cakes as Sophia and Samuel had already created holes at the bottom of their cakes with their hands.
Hip hip hip!!! Big sis shouted and response of Hurray! Here and there with claps of excitement filled the air.....
Well Sandra is about 6months pregnant but she didn't seem to mind as she and my brothers organized the birthday party insisting Tunde and I never got a party planner involved.
What can I say? She loves my children to pieces so much one that didn't know would think she literally gave birth to them, just like I love her son David so much.
The video man/ photographer had captured every moment, I must commend the crew had been doing great job since the early hours of the morning. Don't blame me! I'm just excited. I made sure everything was recorded and put into pictures, from my babies clothes to their shoes and even when big sis and I were dressing them up for the event.
Taking the knife, I cut the cakes into generous pieces, gathered them on plates and gave to every one present. Leaving the rest for the lovers of cakes when the party is over and even days ahead.
For the rest of the day,there is laughter and excitement and everyone seems to be happy. Along with the music, there are drinks, food, snacks and more goodies for everybody.
I watch the kids dance so Merrily without worry and free spirited.
The three of them are so alike in many things.
I can't thank God enough for giving them to me.