Bz Mommy

5 years! And Dawn is 5! When you count the days that had past, the time has always seem to pass too fast, while when you count the days you are in with all the sacrifices facing you, the time seem to be much slower! Dilemma!

Back to our homely celebration this year, we had a lunch with my family and a dinner with dear’s family.  Sisters bought a cake for Dawn too!

Dawn with Eva

Dawn wanted a Princess cake to bring to her school for celebration but we couldn’t find a Princess cake that comes with a affordable price.  There were no retail cake shops that use Disney Princess as prints for cakes (except Swensen but only ice-cream cakes).  We found some blogshops selling a princess design cakes but they are too pricey…so we asked Dawn whether she can settle with Strawberry Shortcake cake…and being the sweet little girl, she say it’s ok to change.

A bag of small surprise bags for her classmates.  We call it surprise bags because each bag does not contain identical items and hence it’s a surprise for each child.

Teacher asked Dawn to place her 5 candles…

Dawn in action…choosing the spots to place the candles…

Done!

with her classmates…

Singing the birthday song….but Dawn look stressed leh…not sure what she was thinking, was she thinking on how to blow the candles?

She was not clapping to her own birthday song too!

Making a wish…or wishes..was she really wishing?

Huuuuuu

Cutting the cake..

With Daddy & Mummy

Giving out the surprise bags…

We had all these celebrations before her actual birthday because her actual day was too near Chinese New Year..but what made her the most happy was….George arrived in the morning on her actual birthday!

George is the brother of Peppa Pig and he arrived from UK!

Isn’t he cute?! Can’t help but to like it too!

Dinosaur…RarrRRRrrrrrr

Dawn had wanted to go for sand play for the longest time…and we had also placed a picnic mat and the sandcastle tools in the boot of our car, but we never really had a chance to go (actually it was me who rejected the suggestion each time because of the HOT WEATHER! :p)

And yes, we finally made a day for Dawn to build sand castle! And I discovered something new about my hubby …..

He had no idea how to build a sand castle!! No wonder the last time, there wasn’t a proper photo taken for a sand castle!

And under the guide of his brilliant wife, we built our castle together!

Work half d0ne..spot the block beside the sand hill?  All along Dawn didn’t want to build the castle with us, she said that she is already building the castle by piling the sand up..

So after the brilliant wife impact the sand castle building skills to the dear hubby, she retreated to the picnic mat :p See how hardworking the dear hubby was!

Ta-da! Look at our castle! Like some Government House hor? Still got wall around it..

Our castle beside Dawn’s hill castle…

It was indeed tiring to squat and build sandcastle, I could feel that my legs were going to give way anytime..

The time flew by…seconds, minutes and hours…

Then it was the days which flew..

And the months..

The year just flew by…

Indeed live up to my name..Busy Mommy.

Having 2 kids really took up most of our time..lesser personal time now, and both hubby & I treasure our couple time and our own personal space whenever we have the opportunity.

We used to be able to sleep at 2am and wake up at 7am to leave for work…now we will start doing the nodding exercise when it’s 11pm.  Those were the days.

But Year 2011 was a rather fruitful year.  Had targets, reached targets and exceeded targets.  Small success but gave us a sense of achievement and joy.  To some other, the small success might be nothing to cheer about, but in our family, small achievement deserves cheers!

Resolutions may not be the right way to end a year and start a new year…for I believe that resolutions will still be resolutions by the end of that new year. Set reasonable goals or targets instead, and there’s surely a report card by the end of the year – whether it’s met, not met or exceeded.

Gambatte everyone! Jia you for the new year!