Happy Birthday Yesmin!! :) (a belated post)

My little girl turned 8 today! Can't believe how time flies...still remember her as a baby...still remember the day we welcome her to the world. She's our first child. Everything was unorganized, everything was a havoc, on top of that, she arrived 13 days early!! :P
This year, we didn't throw her a party. Instead, we promised her a trip to the Great Wolf Lodge (the only indoor water park in the Pacific Northwest), which we had wanted to go in the past Summer, but did not go. Anyway, we did have her friend Ellie came over to celebrate with us. The 2 of them have been having play dates almost every Mondays for a few weeks now, and so happened that her birthday fell on a Monday. She didn't want a cake this year (Thank God), instead, asked for an apple pie. So after school (Ellie moved to our neighborhood in the Summer, so they ride in the same school bus), we sang her birthday song and had her birthday apple pie with ice cream, opened presents, and the girls started to playing with the new toys right away. They had a good time, Yesmin said it's her "best birthday ever"...that's what she says every year!
We took her to Olive Garden later that night for dinner. She got to pick where she wanna go. She asked "why do they have grapes instead of olives on their sign, when they are called 'Olive' Garden??" I never even thought about that, unless that bunch of grape looking like thing IS Olive?! :P That is very typical of Yesmin. She's very observant when it comes to tiny details. Since 2, 3 years old, she has always like to search for the tiniest things on the ground. So, if u drop your needle in a hay stack, she might be able to help you! However, like her dad and Lucas, they don't remember WHERE they left their things!!! :/
Happy Birthday my sweetie pie. We love u bery bery much! :)

She and her new Totoro toy