Frederick Di Di's 2nd Birthday

29 April 2007 was Frederick Di Di's 2nd birthday party, held at Northoak condo at Woodlands! We arrived at around 11:50am and Gwendolyn was already eyeing on the playground when on the way into the function room! Mama lured her to finish her food and wait for Fredrick Di Di before proceeding to the playground! Like a monkey, she liked all the climbing areas and she can climb very steadily!

It's cake-cutting time! All the kids were amazed at the Thomas The Train cake, with real Thomas The Train toy on it! Also, the cake was specially ordered with 2 flavours: chocolate (non-alcoholic) and lychee martini (alcholic)! Yum Yum...all the kids sang Happy Birthday in both English and Chinese and Lyn Lyn clapped and sang out loud! But one good thing was that she didn't fight to blow Frederick Di Di's candles, but waited for him to blow...then asked to cut the cake together!

Not sure why she refused to step aside when the happy family was taking a "family" photo and she asked to be in it as well! Somehow, she's mistaken that all "Di Dis" are her cousins and she kept telling Mama that she has 2 cousins: Joel and Frederick and Mama was trying to convince her that only Joel is a blood-relative! It's really an uphill task!

After the exciting cake-cutting. Lyn Lyn was looking for Fredrick Di Di and noticed that he was getting changed into his swimming costume. Mama didn't bring her swimming costume and she was kind of upset. Surprisingly, she was willing to get into the water in her t-shirt and shorts. Normally, once her clothings are wet, she'll ask to change/remove, but not this time! She joked that Thomas was all wet and kept asking why? It was funny seeing her trying to dunk herself under the water, showing off to Frederick Di Di that she's no longer scared of going under the water! Also, she's just learned "dog paddle" from her Topsy and Tim book on "Learn to Swim" and tried "dog-paddling" by the side of the pool! Seems like she can learn and relate very well from books and reading seemed to have unexpectedly good effects on her! This has given Mama more excuses to look out for more experiential books for her!

After all the playing, Lyn Lyn had another big piece of bread, before falling asleep in the car journey home! She had a wonderful day!

P.S. She seemed to have an exceptionally good apetite after all the morning action...dinner was at Sushi Tei @ Holland Village...she finished one bowl of udon as usual, plus one and a half sticks of jumbo yakitori, 3/4 bowl of edamame beans! That's not all...she still went for a banana split at Haagen-Daz right across the road! If it weren't for the ice-cream, she would be finishing all the yakitori. You know what she said? I can't eat the chicken...I'll die...wonder who taught her about dying and how eating too much will die?