Happy 3rd Birthday, Nathan!

Our dearest Nathan,

We love, cherish and grateful for you because:

- You are such a kind and loving boy at heart. You care for others, especially when they are hurt or sad. You love to help others, too. You are also friendly boy. You love to greet people everywhere you meet them, even though they are strangers to you.

- You have a generous heart. You are still learning to give and share, but we often witness that you do share. You don't mind sharing your things with others. You even approach and give it to them personally even though they don't ask from you. For stuffs that you love the most, it's true that sometimes it's hard for you to let go. But at the end, you'd let go and share them anyway.

- You are always cheerful and happy. Everyday is full of bright sunshine, laughter, singing and happy giggling. You ease and take away our sadness or unhappiness. You never fail to brighten our days.

- Deep inside, you have a sensitive feeling too. You dislike when people who are close to you push you away or upset with you. When you do something wrong, you'd apologize and carefully try to amend things right away.

- You are smart. It's relatively easy to teach you things as you'd pick them up quickly and you love to learn. You have love for music too. It's good to see your interests in academic and artistic things.

- You love your baby brother, eventhough he is not even born yet. You'd kiss him and talk to him. You often say that you'd share your things with him and let him sleep with you in the same room. As a matter of fact, you love younger kids and always be gentle towards them. We trust that you are going to be a good brother.

- You love your family too. You love us, your grandparents, aunts & uncles, and cousins, and they love you too. Whenever you are in Jakarta, you are a star. They all want to meet and play with you, because they really enjoy your company.

- You like to be independent, doing things on your own. But you are not afraid to admit when you are unable to do something. You'd ask us to help you and we always encourage you so that the next time you'd be able to do it on your own.

- We see that your health has improved for the past one year. It was heartbreaking to see you fall sick quite often and depend on your puffers last year. But you have grown stronger now. You are off your puffers and you also like taking your vitamins.

There are still so many things...things that we can't mention all of them one by one about how much we love and treasure you. You are no longer going to be the only son, but we'll not love you any lesser.

You are soon going to school. You are going to more independent and will slowly not dependent on us as much. But we're certain that you will love your school and get to have many new friends.

We thank God for letting us be your parents, for having you in our family. Eventhough you are not perfect, you are the perfect son for us because God entrust you in our hands.

Nathan, we always pray that you will be someone who are close to God's heart, someone who He will use to do His work, and someone who will glorify Him whole-heartedly.

Happy Birthday, Son! Papa and Mama always love you and keep you in our prayers.

Papa & Mama