Happy 5th Birthday, Cutie

How time flies, my Cutie is now 5 years old.  Now she's quite independent and can do a lot of things on her own without Mummy's help.

Yesterday, we had a busy day baking some heart-shaped cookies to give to her classmates and teachers.  Today, Mummy brought them to the Kidz Explorer where both of them had so much fun playing the whole day.

Daddy can only join us for dinner.  At Downtown East, we were attracted by the decor of this restaurant and so decided to have our dinner there.  After that, we went home for another round of celebrations with the cake that we had bought for my Cutie.

Over the weekend, we bought another cake  to Yeye's house to celebrate her birthday with him.  As it was quite a last minute decision, we just headed to a bakery shop nearby for the cake. 

My Cutie is now learning about the value of money and Mummy has taught her before on spending our money wisely.  The design that she had chosen has 3 different sizes and to Mummy's surprise, this darling chose the smallest size after looking at the price tag.  She told me that she doesn't want Mummy to waste money, hahah...  Without hesitation, Mummy just told the staff to pack the biggest size one for us. 

Now at 5, she is already a fluent reader and we had earlier gotten her a book "What You Need to Know Now" which she has chosen herself.  It is a hard cover book that costs over $40 and contains interesting facts and figures about issues on the world.  When the earthquake struck Japan in March, she showed me her book and shared with me that earthquakes are caused by the tectonic plates as mentioned in the book.  Gee... shouldn't it the other way round with Mummy teaching her instead?   Here's a video of her reading a page of the book for you. 

In fact, she had impressed Mummy many a times sharing with me what she had read from her books. For example, the other day she told me that there's a summit in the middle of the Antartica in her encyclopedia book.  Another time, she told me that we should actually not drink water before eating (which she read from her ”十万个为什么“ book.  Oh no, Mummy has previously thought that drinking some water before meals is good.

She has  no problem understanding whatever that she read.  Even her English enrichment teacher was also very impressed with her comprehension abilities even though she was only 4 years old among the rest of 5-7 years old kids.  Mummy was initially worried and had even suggested to her teacher to go slow on her.  Rather, this darling has often surprised Mummy with her independent learning.  Every week, she was able to score full marks for her spellings although Mummy has only gone through it once in less than 5 minutes.

Her thirst for knowledge far surpasses the energy that Mummy has to spare.  Mummy is glad that she can depend on the books to satisfy her desire to learn.