Chapter 341 Happy Birthday
The second Nina saw the cake, she couldn’t wait another moment.
She scrambled to climb down from the bed in a hurry. Mommy, cat cake!”
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She was desperate, practically vibrating with excitement Amelia quickly wrapped her arms around Nina’s wriggling body to keep her from charging straight at the table.
Benjamin set the cake down carefully in the center, then lifted Nelson and settled him into the chair right in front of it.
William, Daniel, and Chloe had all arrived by now, too.
Everyone gathered around the small table. They stuck four candles into the cake.
Nelson even got a birthday hat placed on his head.
It stayed there for about ten seconds before Nina started reaching for it.
Amelia tried to stop her, but Nelson quietly took the hat off and handed it straight to Nina.
He hadn’t been comfortable wearing it anyway. If Nina wanted it so badly, he was happy to give it up.
Amelia could only shake her head at her daughter.
Nina usually hated hats. On her own birthday, she’d refused to wear one no matter how much anyone begged.
But the moment she saw someone else wearing one? She had to have it too.
Nina just couldn’t stand seeing another child have something she didn’t have.
“Mommy, look hat!”
Nina touched the birthday hat proudly, tilting her head so Amelia could admire it.
Amelia gave a small huff and gently scolded her, “Nina, hat’s not very nice. Today is Nelson’s birthday, not
yours.
“You can’t keep doing this.
“Nelson gave you the hat, so you need to say thank you
Nina nodded right away. For once, she looked properly obedient.
She turned to Nelson, flashed him a big, sweet smile, and said in her softest voice, “Nelson, tank you!”
With the hat securely on her head, Nina immediately turned her attention back to the cake.
She reached out her chubby little hand, but Amelia gently pinned it down.
Amelia kept one hand on Nina while speaking softly to Nelson, “Nelson, come on-make a birthday wish.
“Birthday wishes are the most powerful ones.
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“Close your eyes, make your wish, and blow out the candles. Then it can come true.”
Nelson knew perfectly well that birthday wishes didn’t really work like that.
He thought they were just stories adults told to trick kids.
Even if he made one, it wouldn’t come true.
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But when he looked up and saw all the kind, encouraging faces from the Graham family watching him, he pressed his lips together, closed his eyes, and decided to try anyway.
Daniel grinned and leaned in. “Nelson, you have to say the wish out loud! That way, the wish fairy hears it and makes it come true.
“Come on-say it nice and loud!”
Under Daniel’s enthusiastic encouragement, Nelson’s cheeks flushed red. Finally, he took a deep breath and blurted it out.
“I want Mommy,” he shouted the words with his eyes still squeezed tightly shut.
He’d said the deepest, most hidden wish in his heart. Now he was too embarrassed to open his eyes.
The room went quiet for just one heartbeat.
Then Daniel started clapping loudly.
“Yes! That’s how you do it! You said it so loud-the wish fairy definitely heard you.
“Now open your eyes and blow out the candles. Wish granted!”
Daniel coaxed Nelson until he finally opened his eyes and puffed out the flames.
While Nelson was blowing, Amelia quietly reached over and covered Nina’s mouth-just in case.
She wasn’t taking any chances that Nina would try to blow them out, too.
After making a wish and blowing out the candles, Amelia let go of Nina’s face-Nina had been trying to pry her hands off-and started cutting the cake.
Even though the cake was made with good ingredients, kids couldn’t have too much sugar.
Amelia cut two small pieces-one for each child.
Nina stared at her tiny slice and immediately pouted, “Mommy, not this one.”
Amelia raised an eyebrow. “If you don’t want it, then you don’t have to eat any.”
Nina watched as the rest of the cake was quickly divided up. Her little piece was about to be taken away.
She scrunched her face, then said quickly, “Nina cat!”
She didn’t care about the size anymore. She grabbed he spoon and started digging in eagerly.
In no time, her small portion was gone.
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