JD's 4th birthday

2 weeks ago was JD's birthday. We celebrated as usual by eating red egg.


Then, I brought some mini blueberry muffins to her school. I used frozen blueberry, and omitted the crumble top.


When she got home, she showed us the birthday crown that her teacher made for her.


Since her birthday was on Monday, we waited until that weekend to really celebrate it. We decorated the house with balloons (as usual). Sorry about the messy table. It was really hectic because the kids were sleeping, and me and the Monkey King was on crunch time to decorate the cake and cleaning a bit.


JD wanted princess cake. Thank goodness for youtube. I found a tutorial for princess cake. The cake is a white cake recipe that I found on allrecipes.com. The icing is white cake icing. I doubled the recipe and baked the cake in 2 round pans. It should be tall enough, however, I think because I didn't use cake flour, the cake fell.


The b'day girl with the cake, and family pic. The hat crown is my birthday present for her.


The birthday presents. The ones that she loves most are the crown, fairy wings, princess dress and high heel.

Kai's bday celebration 2

Finally we all feel somewhat better, and celebrated Kai's birthday last Saturday.

Decorated the window with balloons that my mom sent. Thank goodness for pumps! The purple hot dog balloon is surprisingly really long (about 1 m or 3 feet).

Family pictures. My mom joined in through Skype.

The birthday girl with her new toy.

Cutting the cake.

I baked this carrot cake with this frosting. I added 1/2 c of shredded coconut to the cake, and substitute 1/2 c of butter from the frosting recipe with cream cheese. The cake was really good and moist. The raisins make this cake more interesting than regular old carrot cake. The monkey king that doesn't like carrot cake loves it!

Even the birthday girl likes it too, I think. Whaddabout JD? Does she like it? Well, she ate about 3 big slices of the cake before I stopped her. She coughed quite a bit that night.
Lesson: just because the cake has carrots in it, doesn't make it healthier. Especially to a cough prone kid.
Lesson learned! :))

Kai's bday celebration 1

Can't believe that my baby's turned 1. Too bad we all came down with a cold, so only mini celebration for her on the day. I made red eggs and noodles for breakfast.

The red eggs. For Chinese, they symbolise good luck, roundness (as in complete happiness) and a sign of fertility/prosperity. Please ignore the botchiness of my eggs. I should have searched online beforehand on how to make smooth (boil the eggs with vinegar and salt).

Kai: Wow, what's this? Everybody is eating it spoon, I should try too.

Kai: Nah, it's easier by hand.

She ate about half of it before she starts throwing it to the floor.

Happy 3rd Birthday JD!

The transformation of JD from an innocent little baby to a playful (read: naughty) independent little girl :)

Party

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2nd Birthday!

Birthday and Xin Cia

Overdue pics II

Hey you! Wish me a happy b'day


Mmm....the headphone tastes good...


At Maryland with my aunts and uncle Tom



Dada's b'day (he got a box of basketball cards for present)