It’s Germaine’s birthday today! The monsterina is 9. We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? Despite the angst (yes, angst at a tender age) and the usual up and downs, we still have a great time together. Many more years to go, kid.

As per my penchant for surprise series in celebrating big events (think birthdays and anniversaries), we planned a nice birthday celebration for her.

Mango mousse cake, gorgeous isn’t it

The Birthday Girl looking mighty pleased

We hid her gifts in the house as a treasure hunt, and played a trick on her by replacing this phone which we bought for her

with another pink phone in the packaging. Knowing how she hates pink (and the colour of that phone was a horrid hot pink!) it was a good sport of her to put on a brave face when she opened the box and saw the phone. I am so proud of her! My gal aint no spoilt brat!

Ger blowing out candles *see the hand placing the real
McCoy (the Sony Ericsson K618i) on the table*

We placed the real McCoy, the Sony Ericsson K618i beside the cake when she closed her eyes to make a wish. When she opened her eyes, the blur queen didn’t even notice the phone was there! Maybe the white phone was camouflaged by the white table. Hahahahaha!Anyway, it all ended happily with her discovering the phone when Big asked her to move the phone away and cut the cake. She squealed with delight and the joy on her face was priceless.

But of course, we have to push the envelope further with this:

Nintendo DS Lite!! Gorgeous ebony gleam of desire. *drool*

We (ok, Big) loaded it with the games that she likes. As with the Gameboy Advance SP, the same rule goes. No playing on weekdays. We are not being regimental but these toys can be rather addictive. Hell, even I am addicted to games like Cooking Mama which Nadia, a barfly friend, also loves and had unlocked all 76 recipes. I am such an overaged baby. Hahahaha!

Having spent the night uncovering surprises, laughing and having good fun, we told her to pack her bag for school tomorrow. And placed her new Zinc haversack beside the old Converse one. Needless to say, she was thrilled to bits.

Happy Birthday darling.