Mid-Autumn Festival

I know we're one day late but it's better late than never. My sister, Jean, bought lots of lantern from Singapore for the girls to celebrate Mid-autumn festival here. We meant to do it last night whilst Joanne was still here. The original plan was to go over to Emily and Gerald's to have Indian takeaway and the girls could play the lanterns in their garden. But Adrian was down with a very bad cold and I requested them to come over instead. However by the time they arrived, it was almost 9pm and way past the girls' bedtime. So we had to postpone it to today.

Hoon Wei came over to watch football with Adrian in the evening and Jean decided to go back to London tomorrow morning instead of today so that she could play lanterns with the girls. We also rang Fenni and Geong Sen to come join in the fun. So there were quite a few of us. Our friends were delighted when they saw mooncakes (Thanks to Cat for bringing and my aunties for buying!). It was quite cold and I realised there were frost when I saw the uploaded photograhps.

Lavigne was frightened of this lantern when it cast funny shadows on the ground

Fresh Flowers

I've always dreamed of snipping fresh flowers from my garden and putting them in a vase to be placed in the house. Well, that dream is fulfilled. I was hanging out the laundry in the garden when I realised there's so many of these flowers it's just a waste not to bring them into the house. Whenever I buy flowers from the supermarket, Adrian would frown, saying it's a waste of money. So here they are, fresh cut flowers from my garden and the other half didn't complain. They certainly bring some cheer into the rooms and don't they look pretty?

Happy 2nd Birthday, Lavigne!

Lavigne turns 2 today. We went to Cafe Uno for dinner and the food there was great! Louisa had Pizza while Lavigne had Penne Carbonara. Adrian and I shared Fruitti Calamari and Linguine Marinara as he had a dinner appointment. The kid's meal comes with ice-cream and that was a treat for the girls. Happy birthday, Lavigne! May you always be cheerful and bright! Love, Daddy, Mummy and Checheh Louisa.

Looking at the waiter suspiciously

My delicious plate of pasta

Lavigne's Birthday Celebration

We held a very small scale birthday party for Lavigne today (as compared to Louisa's). Other than Louisa, the only other child present was my neighbour's son who is 1. It was that pathetic. The rest of the guests were my sisters, brother-in-law and friends of ours. It looked more like a get-together for us adults than a child's party. Oh well, once she starts going to school, she'll have her own friends and then we can invite them over next year.

I made her the birthday cake. It was much simpler than Louisa's. I wanted to get some Minnie Mouse figurines but couldn't find anywhere. I'm sure I could get some from the Disney Store but I didn't want to travel all the way to Guildford. Then I found some Dora, Pooh and Fifi figurines. I settled on Pooh since she knows the characters well. Yesterday while shopping at Marks and Spencer, I came across some Pooh lollies and sweeties. I thought they cost so much cheaper and are better for decorations (plus they can be eaten!) so I bought them. The cake is chocolate sponge with fresh chocolate cream filled with Hazelnut, Almond and Maltezers. For some reasons, the pipings started bleeding halfway through decoration and the Pooh icing started to go soft. I quickly took the icing off and decided to put them on before cake cutting session. So I'm actually quite disappointed with the final product.

As the party was held at Adrian's office coffee room, we only went there just before the party started. I prepared ribbons and balloons. Upon reaching there, I was going to decorate the place when my sisters and Adrian said 'Don't need lah!'. So the room didn't have any party atmosphere, there wasn't any children games and there was not a big spread of food (I only fried noodles and grilled chicken wings, the rest were finger food bought from supermarket).

We tried to get her to nap before going to the party but she refused to. So what happened during the party? She slept a good part of it. I only have photos taken at home after the party. Am still waiting for my sister to send me the party photos.

Lavigne was doing this pose and I quickly got Cat to pose next to her.