Safiya turns five

15th October 2011

Safiya is 5 years old today!

The party will have to wait though. It doesn't seem to be the best idea to invite family and friends with mummy possibly having her baby anytime since she is already full term and ready to deliver. As such, we decided to wait until the baby arrives and then hold a doa selamat both for Safiya as well as our new family member. Oh, can't wait to see the little one!

Anyway, at the last minute, daddy and mummy decided to buy a birthday cake for Safiya. We then headed to our grandparents home and had lunch there. Safiya chose her own cake, purely based on the decorations - a heart shape with two flowers in her favourite colour. We were a bit skeptical about the taste at first since the baker told us it's plain vanilla, but it turned out really nice. The cream in between was also lined with orange filling and the cake was spongy as well.



After tasting the wonderful cake, Safiya showed us her drawing. She definitely had the picture of her cake embedded in her mind since she remembered how it looked like, after only a short glimpse of it at the bakery. She also had some writings on it which took us a while to understand. Can you figure it out?

Okay, the trick is you have to read from the bottom up. It says:

"(This) ees mi kak (is my cake). I love my cake. Hape (happy) bfda (birthday) Iman"

Quite impressive for a 5 year old who had just started learning how to sound, read and write words!


Safiya then received her present from Nini Bini. Big smiles all the way home!