The Sneaky Chocolate

Dear Baby,

We celebrated Auntie Lin's birthday with a family dinner at one of the baby friendly restaurants we like to frequent, Emperor's Court, near home. As soon as we came in the restaurant staff were very happy to see you, and even some of the kitchen staff was at the door to wave at you, and they were all delighted you can walk now.

We ordered a small dish of asparagus cooked with garlic and no seasoning especially for you. So for dinner you had the asparagus, rice, half a buttermilk prawn and corn with crab meat soup. Mommy spoon fed you the soup and when the rest of the food arrived you abandoned the soup and helped yourself to what was on your plate. You ate half of the prawn, most of the rice and lots of the asparagus and you insisted on having two spoons on your plate too.

Mommy also packed you some cucumber sticks as your pre dinner snack and you decided to put some of the asparagus into the same container and put on the lid. Hey, your first take away! Hahaha...

One of the conversation was maybe it'll be easier for you to call daddy's parents as Kong Kong and Po Po, instead of Nini Boy and Nini Noi. Mommy vote yes to that, not sure about the others, after all, Nini Boy is chinese and you are more than half chinese by blood. The ones I don't particularly like is the use of Nini Daddy and Nini Mommy, there are just too many syllables and it's confusing for baby.

After dinner was over out came the surprised birthday cake, and of course the obligatory photo taking of the cake.

The cake was nice, daddy had to order it last minute as your Nini Boy only told him to get one a few hours before dinner. The table near us which had another family sitting there also had a share of the cake.

By then you were sitting opposite mommy playing with Auntie Maricel next to Nini Noi. There was a piece of chocolate lying on the plate on the table. Mommy watched this whole thing happened, Nini Noi's hand moved to the plate, snapped off a piece of chocolate and was bringing it up towards your mouth! I told her stop, and her hand paused mid air. She said, "Oh, I thought she can have chocolate." She knew very well you are not allowed chocolate or any sweet stuff, not until you know how to brush your teeth properly or rather allow us to brush your teeth properly. Mommy seen too many young kids with bad teeth, and I rather we try to avoid that happening to you.

All in all, it was a nice dinner and lots of photo taking of baby. We stopped by the book store and daddy was showing you all the books and mommy picked up a potty training book, and off home we went.

Love,

Mommy