Freya's Birthday Highlights

생일축하해, 프레야

Shane's Way of Showing His Affection

Didn't expect this at all. Shane wrote me a note on a piece of paper.

Thank you for the chocolates and the t-shirt. Loved them.

It is not about how much it cost. ..rather, it is all about what it means.

Thanks for the birthday gifts, Shane.

Happy Birthday to Daddy^^

It's supposed to be the 8 March celebration. ..but since I'm.busy on Sunday..the day of my birthday, I took the kids out a day earlier.

Having lunch @ Seven Springs.

Lunch....a light one for me.

The seasonal fruits....strawberry..that came in all sizes and shapes....on top of desserts.

They enjoyed having lunch here.

Hmm....yogurt....coffee. ..ice cream...

....kids will always be kids...no matter where they were.

Birthday with Friends

Baskin Robbins Ice Cream for the B day boy and....they started singing  생일 축하한다는 송^^

Ghazy b'day...celebrated as promised. 

@ Savaro's stairs.

More Birthday Bash..this one's a traditional way!

Is there such thing as a traditional birthday bash? Of course there is...^^ in the sense that most of the food we prepared IS traditional. 

Okay..the news spread that Eyra was having her birthday on April 20. Since she had friends..well, her Mom's friends and automatically mine as well....who happened to live just a few minutes way by subway..on line 6.....we might as well ask them for dinner at our place. 

yellow rice, dadar gulung, tempe, tahu, sambal, sambal goreng sapi, and some fruits.... 

And there were around ten of us..having dinner together. 

And we had one more guest, a new family from Malaysia who just arrived two months earlier to our neighborhood.  

So..here we are. From left: Mas Ahmad (from Malaysia and family), mas Khoirul (from Jakarta and his family), my wife, and then.om Wawan and his wife. and me? 

Yep..count me in..count me in. 

And..guess what...Eyra got two more unexpected presents. 

and..more toys: only this time..it's different from what she had before. 

It's a bit princess-ey:-)

Home-Made + Hand-Made Choco-Cheese-Cake Balls

We didn't buy a birthday cake for Eyra. Instead, her Mom prepared something more magnificent for the kids to spend another few hours at home while enjoying the fiesta and the comfort of our living room.--> yes, cheese-cake making time. 

First, they make cheese-balls out of the already-prepared dough that their Mom made.

Oh, they rolled them round and skewered them one by one into a small bamboo rod. *gee..don't know what to call them* 

Then..came the challenges: They got to dip the balls into six different flavors and colors. There were plain chocolates, banana-flavored chocolate, blueberry-flavored chocolates, sprinkles... 

It was a refreshingly new way of taking the kids into activity at home....making their own birthday cakes!!! 

They could do any experiments of flavors that could go with their own likings. 

Hmmm..sounds ..I mean...looks kind of eye-candy and eye-poppingly irresistible.  

And ..they would go over and over again..until all of the cheese-balls were evenly dipped and flavored. 

As for me, this is something new as well. Thanks, Mama..for having prepared this colorful way of celebrating birthday. 

now..more and more colorfully-decorated and half-dipped cheese-cakes were ready to be refrigerated. 

Yes, they got to be refrigerated for a while so as to give it a boost in flavor.--so Mama said. --> Yes, Ma'am.

And..since the kids thought that it would also be fun to just let the balls un-skewered:-) they just left them on the tray...--> hmmm, tempting and edible. 

*Happy Birthday, Eyra*

More on Eyra's Birthday

I woke up at around 4 to set these all up. I mean...since we didn't do any party for her..so I might just 'invite' all of Eyra's dolls. 

Stuck the present right in the middle of them.

Gee..I couldn't believe it that my daughter named most of these dolls. 

Okay..it may look so outrageous to do all of these in the wee hour ..right before she woke up. 

But..that's a blast!. She woke up to find out that we arranged a special day for her. 

With eyes a bit bloated from waking up....they're as excited as they could be...like any other kids who couldn't wait for the presents. 

Just when I was about to ask her open the gifts, her sister asked if I could take the picture....of her giving the present to her birthday-sister. 

and..the biggest of them all. Oh, Freya chose the present herself--on her Dad's wallet, of course....*<>* 

Although it was actually Eyra's birthday, I kinda felt that Freya was the one who'd been so impatiently, yet gleefully wrapping up the gifts. 

Oh....that's priceless. 

now..family picture time.   

Actually..this was not that impressive...but boy..it's impressive enough for the money...(in a good way, of course..coz it's 50% discount off..and off-the-season toy that's more than enough to put a smile on the girls' face). 

And it goes both ways...while the other section is for cooking, the other end is for beauty-in-the-making make-believe kind-of-toy.

*Good job, Freya*

&Happy Birthday, Eyra&