When Yaya was turning 4 years old, she wanted a Donald duck cake.. I was expecting my youngest child and it was a very difficult preganancy. I couldn’t bake the cake for her. So I took her and her brother to the bakery and she chose the cake that she wanted. Before we left the bakery, she insisted that I must buy a small cake for her brother so he also gets to blow out the candle..and I did.

Now Yaya is 13, toothless will be 12 soon and baby just turned 10..
Poor baby.. she gets the most awesome Christmas gifts and each year, her siblings and I promise ourselves that next year we will buy her birthday gift first and then look for the Christmas gifts..and each year, the day before her birthday..her siblings and I run helter skelter trying to find something..anything..that we can buy as a birthday gift..
Ideally, when you are desperate, you buy anything..but not Yaya and Toothless..They insisted that whatever we buy..it has to pass their standard..because it is for their baby sister.. So I left baby with my friends and went shopping..We went to every shopping mall…
Baby needed a new watch..How hard it is to buy a new watch? If the colour was right, then the dial was too big..or the pattern was all wrong.. We searched for the perfect watch..from 10 in the morning till 3..finally they found the perfect watch..We also bought Ben 10 pencil case ( recently there was a Ben 10 live show in Brisbane and I took baby to watch it.. She was the only girl..the rest were boys between the age of 4 and 7!!) a treasure chest ( baby loves collecting stuff for her memory box and every other year, we buy her a new treasure chest) a boom box and a box of chocolate..
It is our tradition that we decorate the house/tent/hotel room the night before the birthday, so in the  morning the birthday child wakes up to a surprise..and we searched everywhere for balloons and streamers..All we managed to get were the paper pineapples ( Chinese NY).
I was tired after all the 8 hours of driving and then the whole day of shopping. So I went to bed after wrapping the gifts and hanging the pineapples from the ceiling.. Yaya and toothless were reading their books when I went to bed.
I was a bit sad that we couldn’t get proper birthday gifts for my darling and couldn’t even decorate the room for her..
I woke up to find..a huge message on the wall..Yaya and toothless used my Swiss knife, cut individual letters out of the wrapping paper..and wrote ” Happy birthday baby..you are the best sister on earth”
I felt my heart would explode..and somewhere at the very bottom of my heart..there was a tinge of envy..if only I had siblings like these..

My children are not angels.. they fight with each other all the time. ( No physical fights, I will not allow physical fights )
In the last few days..Every time my son passes  Yaya’s room.. he  roars like a lion….which drives Yaya insane…and because it is a free world we are living in and he has the right to make any sound he wants to…. his act will go on till Yaya finds something to counter act…. i am waiting to see what she is going to do..