Zia Dantes celebrates her third birthday with classmates and teachers

“Sharing with you Ate Zia’s advance birthday celebration at school. Thank you to her classmates and teachers for making Zia’s special day a memorable one.” (Photo: @marianrivera/Instagram)

As an advance birthday celebration in honor of her third birthday on November 23, the daughter of Kapuso actors Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes, Maria Letizia “Zia” Dantes, threw a party for her classmates and teachers on Wednesday, November 21.

Zia’s mother Marian shared about the event on her Instagram, captioning, “Sharing with you Ate Zia’s advance birthday celebration at school. Thank you to her classmates and teachers for making Zia’s special day a memorable one.” Many celebrities were quick to respond to the post, greeting Zia a ‘happy birthday,’ like Kim Domingo, Mariel Padilla, Bianca Gonzales, Nadine Samonte, and Daiana Menezes.

As part of her celebration, Zia also handed, out pillows with unicorn designs and other colorful gifts. Some of the memorable moments were when the three-year-old led the prayer and blew out the candles of her chocolate cake. 

In an exclusive with Pep.ph, the celebrity mom shared she asked the toddler what she wants to do for her birthday, even suggesting a princess theme, but she replied, “No Mama, I just want to go to Disneyland,” the family currently en route to Tokyo to grant the child’s request.

Marian refers to Zia as ‘ate’ (older sister) in reference to her pregnancy with her second child, which she announced last September. She posted a photo of an ultrasound captioning, “My heart overflows with gratitude and humility. Dong and I, with our Zia, have been gifted with the miracle of life! Looking forward to meeting our ‘little one’ soon.” The soon-to-be mother of two also reports to Pep.ph that her and husband Dingdong always bring Zia to visit the OB Gyn so that she can see her future sibling, saying, “We want her to be involved in everything happening so she doesn’t get confused or question how she’s getting a sibling.”