What Does A Birthday Mean?

Here's Baby En's Mug shot at 11 months plus..

Now that we are counting down to Baby En's First Year birthday, suddenly I find myself asking what does the word "birthday" means..

Well, according to

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary:
birthday (noun) = the day that is exactly a year or the number of days after a person was born

Merriam-Webster provided 2 meaning:
1. the day of a person's birth
2. the anniversary of a birth

If a birthday only signifies the number of days that have passed, it seems so clinical and scientific, to me, it does not have any of the emtional values when we scream, party and toast to "Happy Birthday".. So really what does a birthday mean?

Merriam-Webster's second definition is a bit closer to what i have been thinking about..
To me, I dun think I am gonna celebrate Baby En's birthday per se, I see it as celebrating OUR First Anniversary, a year that we have spent together.. and the numerous memories and events that we have shared together.. the amount of time that we have spent together, and those are the stuff worth celebrating - The journey that we have travelled together for the past year is worth marking and celebrating..

So in about 20 days time, it will be our One year anniversary with Baby En, by the time he is 1 year old, it will be a celebration of the amount of precious memories acccumulated with Baby En in our lives.. and for this, I will look forward t0 celebrating many future anniversaries with Baby En as they signify the abundance of memories we have jointly shared together..

Many cheers to Baby En and us!!