Tommy's most favourite toy is undoubtedly CARS, all kinds of cars. His favourite activities including taking apart all breakable parts of any car such as wheels, steering wheels, windshield, etc. and inserting tiny items into the car's body. He could pretend play with any car comfortably on the laps of his parents. Tommy also loves playing Wii (specifically Super Mario Bros) with his Daddy and Mew, although most of the time he hides in a bubble. He loves Mew's room very much and enjoys spending time on the bed with his sister. If Mew closes her room's door, he will run to Mummy or Daddy and cry out terribly.
Tommy is a little slow in learning to talk at his age but it is not a big concern for us though. He is trying to imitate words from video clips and could even count by himself without any help from us from 1 to 10 in both our language and in English. He also can point to different shapes and speaks their names in English (but his pronunciation is not yet accurate). He could also recognize alphabets and their names in English. He can arrange number puzzles correctly from 0 to 9 too.
Tommy's favourite food is noodles, any variety of noodles from udon to vermicelli, spaghetti. He would find out very quickly if we plan to cook noodles and run into the kitchen to ask for some. If we finish the bowl of noodles without sparing some for him, he would definitely cry miserably "Het, het roi!".
Oh, and Tommy can imitate his Daddy and Mew in doing push-ups every day. How funny it is to see three of them performing the same pose!
Mommy decided to make a homemade birthday cake again this year for Tommy but in the shape of a car. Everybody knows that Mommy is never interested in cooking (honestly Mommy hates cooking!) but store-bought cake is too sweet and the quality of ingredients could not be guaranteed, that's why Mommy had to opt for a DIY cake. Google is Mommy's best friend and after a few days of Internet browsing, Mommy had some ideas for making a 3D car-shaped cake with all the ingredients, utensils and tools available at home.
The cake itself is a normal sponge cake baked from cake mixes (too lazy to make it from scratch). Mommy baked it in a rectagular pan and cut it up in halves and topped one onto another. With some scraping, cutting with a sharp knife, it became looking like a real car. Then Mommy made a sheet of marshmallow fondant from scratch according to the instructions from the Internet and covered the cake fully (after frosting it with strawberry jam). Four wheels were Mini Oreos and Chocopies. Mew helped Mommy to decorate the car with sprinkles, edible gel pens, Campino candies, etc. It turned out a beautiful cake. Mommy was so glad to see that her first attempt in making a professional-look-like cake was not bad at all. Thank Mew for lending Mommy a hand to make this fabulous birthday cake for Tommy!
We also had a warm and yummy party to celebrate Tommy's 2nd birthday at home. Mommy made an edible fruit bouquet instead of fresh flowers to add some flavours and colours to the party table as well.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR TOMMY! LOVE YOU SO MUCH FROM DADDY, MOMMY AND SIS MEW!
