Birthday plus Mid-Autumn Festival Party

Tonight brother, sis-in-law and us would be going to my parents place for mid-autumn festival dinner. Before dinner was ready, Jolie took over the camera and started taking photo of everybody, starting with her "gong gong"...

Her goofy "Kau Fu"...

Finally, dinner was ready! Check out Mama's and Papa's feast! I commented that it was as sumptuous as New Year's reunion dinner, and Mom replied that it IS a reunion dinner! A mid-autumn reunion dinner.

After we filled ourselves with dinner, we cleared the table and brought out the cake Cobby bought for me. My durian Birthday cake! Yeah!

Happy Birthday group photo!

May all my wishes come true!

Dad and his wacky antics! Don't know where she learnt that, but Jolie likes to stick out her tongue when she takes photos!

Happy birthday to me!

Thumbs up for the durian cake!

Jolie never had durian before, so we wondered if she would love or hate the fruit or not. But after one bite, we eagerly asked if she liked it, and she nodded "YES!" Haha! It's official! We have a durian lover!

Amazing! 5 adults and 1 child and we polished off the WHOLE 20cm cake!!!

Even more amazing! After the amazing dinner, polishing off the whole cake, we even had space for Mooncake! Haha, but hey, it's mid-autumn festival, it was COMPULSORY. :) This year, we tried my very first attempt in making mooncakes.

It was pretty ok, but of course, it's not as excellent as the ones we bought from Orchard hotel, Huating.

Then Dad brought out the one that Sis bought from Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong. There was alot of debate on which one tasted the best. Dad liked the one Sis bought, Cobby and I liked the one that I bought, and bro, well, it all tasted the same to him. -_-

Check out the pomelo lantern that dad made!

Cool!

Another compulsory thing to do on mid-autumn festival. Play with lanterns. This year, Jolie got:

A Bee / Butterfly (I don't know what insect was it) lantern from my Mom.

Dancing lady lantern from my Dad.

In case you're wondering why we were laughing like mad, it's because of what Dad said. He was trying to get the dancing lady to face the camera, but dancing lady wouldn't turn, so he cursed in Cantonese, "TURN AROUND YOU @#$%!"

So while we concussed from overeating, Jolie took her bath and put on her brand new Dora pajamas. She's very into Dora now, so she totally loved her new outfit.

What a super fun-filled / food-filled night! We didn't let Jolie play outdoors with her lantern as it was super hot, humid and hazy. But I think she didn't mind. :)