All About Your Child

Today is my 3rd niece’s birthday.

The celebration happened on Sunday 18 July 2010, during our usual Sunday get-together with my in-laws.

Allan and I bought her a very sparkling girly pink sling bag, while the boys paid $1 each from their piggy bank to get her a white board (from Keatkeat) and a bigger than A4 size Mickey colouring book (from Binbin).

Its been a really long time since we had FUN for dinner. It was DIY feasting that day.

1. We get to create our very own popiah. Add as much ingredients as we like, until we could not wrap it up. Or the kids put too much sauce that it soaked through the thin wrap.
2. They had mee siam too. Why I said ‘they’ is because I do not eat mee siam. They added whatever yummies they wanted into that delicious gravy.
3. They had fried beehoon too. Matched with unhealthy but super crunchy side-dishes of their choice.

Since I do not eat bee hoon cooked in any form. I skipped mee siam and the fried beehoon. What I enjoyed most was dipping the popiah wrap in the mee siam gravy!!! Yummy Yum Yum!

*Smile*

Ooops! So much about food in this post, whereby the focus should be on the Birthday girl – M.Y.

I noticed that she has grown in personality. Though she still does not mix with the group (the other 5 kiddos) very much, she has tried to join their games in several occasions.

Very much of a loner still, just like she is in school; she likes to doll herself up now… but with much help from her Mom. If not, I do not think its advisable to let her leave the house. *giggle*

Among the many presents, bags were her favourite. Even the paper bags used as a form of gift wrap, she loved it as if they were diamonds. *giggle* Thus leaving the control-games (from her dad) aside, which was completely swamped over by the other 5 noisy ones.

Very different character from the group still, but very much a happy girl on her own….

Happy Birthday M.Y.!

Today is my boys’ Ah Yee’s (aunt aka my sis) birthday.

We had our usual midnight cake cutting celebration to start the day off and ended with a sumptuous dinner at Kuishinbo.

I think this year, the kids enjoyed this day as much as the adults! *laugh*

The experience at Kuishinbo was just too funny! Every half hour or so, the staff at Kuishinbo will ring the bell and start distributing specialties to the first 20 odd  customers who ‘run’ to the counter.

So whenever we hear ‘ring-a-ling-a-ling’, everyone dropped whatever they were chewing on and dash for the counter, without even knowing what food is being distributed! It was more like a ‘Just-Take-It!’ attitude. *laugh*

So the kids’ ears were all high and pointy throughout the 3hour-buffet, just to wait for the ‘ring-a-ling-a-ling’! *laugh*

Binbin whacked that bowl of grapes. He practically had fruit and chawamushi buffet!!! What an expensive fruit buffet he had?! *eyes rolled* Towards the end, when all the adults were ‘heavily pregnant with food’, he was still getting grapes for all of us. *eyes rolled* His reason was “I share what I like with you all, because I love you all!” …….

And Keatkeat cannot get enough sweetness from pastries and freshness from sushi. With so much flour and rice, he was full in no time! So full that he could not even finish his ice-cream! *laugh*

What the kids loved most was the fondue! ‘Chocolate Fountain’ was the name they called it. They were happily poking the fruits and rolling them under the rain of strawberry chocolate.

As for the adults, the birthday girl (my sis), Allan and I hit the seafood!!! The monster crabs, the sashimi, the shells…. With so much choices, I did not forget the chocolates!!! Yum!

I apologize for the lack of photos. I was too busy eating!!! *laugh*

The bill came up to a scary $180+. Then again, its once in a year event, so its still pretty cool for such an indulgence. *wink*

Happy Birthday Ah Yee!
~ from Keatkeat and Binbin.