Throwback Thursday Birthday Initiative (ESP/ENG)

Today I want to join this wonderful initiative from my friend @soyunasantacruz, who's encouraging us to share our old birthday photos. I think she and I are more or less from the same generation because I also have photos like that, taken with film cameras. I should mention beforehand that I'm not sure if I've shared these photos before (it's hard to know because I've been posting on Hive daily for the last five years, so imagine having to search manually, haha, and Hive doesn't have a search function), but I think I haven't posted them because they were in an old album I had in my closet. Anyway, here's the original post, and I encourage you all to participate in the initiative.

Hoy quiero unirme a esta preciosa iniciativa de la amiga @soyunasantacruz en la cual nos exhorta a compartir esas fotografías antiguas de nuestros cumpleaños, creo que ella y yo pertenecemos más o menos a la misma generación porque yo también tengo de esas fotografías tomadas con cámaras analógicas de carretes. De antemano les digo que no estoy segura de si he compartido antes o no estas fotos (es difícil saberlo porque yo publico en Hive diariamente desde hae cinco años, así que imagínense tener que buscar manualmente jeje, y Hive no tiene un buscador), pero creo que no las he publicado porque estaban en un viejo álbum que tenía en mi armario. De cualquier forma por aquí lesdejo la publicación original y los exhorto a formar parte de la iniciativa.

I remember some fragments of that day; it was my third birthday. One of the things I remember most is the usual photo session with one of my aunts. She was always carrying her camera around because she was studying photography, and she would take photos of me every month from the time I was born to keep a record of my progress and growth. Later, it became an annual thing. I remember that day wanting to go play with my toys, but she kept me distracted by giving me things to play with while she took pictures with the camera's flash. In fact, you can see me there with one of those rolls of film that were used in analog cameras 😆 I'm holding it in my left hand while I smile at the camera.

Then it was my party's turn, of which I have some scattered memories, for example I remember when they asked me to pose with my birthday cake, which was very beautiful, a lovely creation by my aunt, the oldest, she was the expert in baking, and she wanted to replicate a beautiful garden with my cake (it turned out beautifully, my mom told me that the grass was recreated with shredded coconut)

Only my cousins ​​and uncles attended that party—and there are a lot of them! But at that time I lived in a small town, and most of my mother's family lived in the city (where we moved when I turned eight). So, the ones who were there were my cousins ​​on my mother's side. I don't remember the scene where I was cutting the cake, but you can tell I really enjoyed being given that responsibility 😄

Honestly friends, I really enjoyed this initiative, it filled me with beautiful memories and nostalgia, I hope many more initiatives come to this wonderful community.