Happy Birthday, Ming Wai!

Someone just turned 4. And she’s pretty excited about it.

(We’ve got a photobomb. BOOM.)

She got to sit in our new (to us) Princess Chair and open her pile of shiny gifts. (The chair was a garage sale find last weekend. $20, y’all. Just a few light scratches on the wooden legs. Be still my Cheapy Cheap-o heart! Cheap, AND Chinese print?! I may have done a back flip when I found it in someone’s driveway. Maybe.)

 

She loves opening gifts. We thought we knew which would be her favorite – the new TinkerBell movie! When she opened it, Lo Gung asked, “Do you like it???” “No.” came her cool reply. “It’s scary.”

*blink blink*

Well, then. Alright.

However, she LOVED this book from Gu Jeh, her auntie. It’s kind of like Where’s Waldo, except for you’re looking for 8-12 items on each page that the page’s Princess has lost. When I tucked her in for the night, and shut the door to her room, I could still hear her. “Where’s the pumpkin….there it is! Where’s Fairy Godmother’s magic wand….there it is!”

After presents, it was time for cake. Lo Gung decided it was high time to introduce her to the wonders of the Ice Cream Cake. (However, this might be the last time she has a store bought ice cream cake from us. For what we paid for it, I could have made two or three of them at home!)

Girl, you haven’t aged a bit!

(No, really. Check it out.)

This one is from her third birthday. A year ago. Is it just me, or is this like the Girl that Time Forgot?!

Happy birthday, Ming Wai!

(We spent the first half of the day “on vacation”, which I’ll tell you about later. Soon. Ming Wai’s birthday dinner was all her favorites – white rice with soy sauce, sliced cucumbers in sweet chili sauce, watermelon rind pickles, cheung fun (a sort of a Chinese noodle thing) and steamed broccoli with oyster sauce. Girl knows what she likes.)