Ashley's special day...

Both of us took leave on Ashley's birthday, to spend the day with our little gal.  Being able to spend days out with her - putting work aside, is the best pressie for her.  I can sense her happiness just by looking at her.

(all ready to go out...)

There were actually 2 places I had in mind to go - Fidgets or cycling in ECP.  I know these are the 2 activities that she enjoys most.  In the end, Fidgets won out as I wanted to see how she'd progressed since her last trip there about 6mths' ago.  She has a blasting fun time there, spent 2hrs climbing, skipping, rolling, sliding, crawling, etc...  And I was pleased that she did quite a few things that she didn't dare the last time - she went walking along the rope bridge, she climbed into the spaceship-like thing and waved to us, she even glided on the bar-thingy n swung from one end to the other, unaided.

I wondered and I concluded she knows it's a special day for her.  Even though she was obviously tired out after the session in Fidgets, she didn't want to nap.   So, I changed my plan and pushed the cake-cutting to the afternoon (anticipating she'll probably conk out early tonite).  Alas, the major blip of the day - the cake - looks nice if u ignore Barney-lookalike's flat head and the toppled panda - flopped the taste test big time!  Sponge cake was too hard.  It was supposed to be vanilla lemon, but I couldn't taste the lemony zing at all.  Yeah, I know... i should hv tried their cakes first before going for the expensive stuff huh...  But I thought, it had several good reviews from the forum... :-(  On hindsight, i wondered if those mommies were all friends???

But anyway, it didn't spoil Ashley's mood at all.... Y?  Because she doesn't really fancy cakes... yep, my daughter is strange that way... ;-)

We had dinner at Sushi Tei, ECP branch.  Ambience is real nice there, food was ok... I'd wanted to check out a special nice place for dinner, but since the leading lady here likes simple fare, we opted for Sushi Tei.

I got her this Swarovski crystal this year.  Alan bought her a toy, on my suggestion (based on what I'd read from Welch's blog).  I like the toy, it's fun and I had a great time building some of the stuff too.  Needless to say, Ashley can't build anything yet, but she too had fun fiddling with the parts and she likes the stuff I build too, like the flower, windmill...

It was an enjoyable day, and most of all, a remarkable day as 3 years ago, on this day, we were blessed with Ashley...