Yep, the beach. She has told us like a year ago that she would want to celebrate her 7th swimming so here we are.

First of all, the Frozen-themed cake is kinda off since we're surrounded by sand and sea. We should've gunned for The Little Mermaid but she's not hearing it. See? 

But it doesn't matter to her, really. Food doesn't matter because nothing it more important than swimming with the friends. It is your moment, after all, baby girl. So live it!

For brief moments she would get out of the water; the only chance we had to take this family photo. However, what's more important is that she had fun. It's evident in her skin color afterwards. 😉 We had an advanced celebration on the 9th of December. We're lucky that the sun came out that day. Our birthday histories are very much riddled with typhoon and flood stories. Ha ha ha. And there's a lot more to be thankful for than just the weather. So many little things that make up the big things.

Here's to more birthdays and blessings!

And oh, I'll just leave you with the aftermath. :)

I was in the middle of a big wave (details on another blog post) when my daughter celebrated her fifth birthday. It was also my nth birthday on December 13. Try not to do the maths, okay, I'm not YET 30! Ha ha. This post is nearly two weeks late because of the "big wave", but anyway, December is still our birthday month so I figured it's not too late. While Typhoon Nina whips up the Bicol Region , I'm whipping up a concoction made up from some childhood photos of my beloved scrumptious little chocolate baby cupcake, who sometimes insists on being called Sweetheart Love. Not being emotional here; just reminiscing on some old memories. Thank God they were captured by the lens. They are golden. :) She is who she is because of the wonderful people who surrounded her from the very beginning.

Moments before her christening.

She badly needed it after the bout with neonatal jaundice.

Learning to bathe someone so fragile.

When she was just about the same size as Baby Tin Tin.

When she was dressed up for winter, in the middle of summer.

Enjoying an otherwise unhealthy meal.

There there. I have tons of photos of her actually but I've chosen a handful from the ones taken before her first birthday because I'm stoked at how tall she is now. How far we've come and still a long way to go! We have a tall five year-old. We're looking good and hopefully might hit the 5'8" mark someday. Ha ha. 

This is me, always looking at you, golden girl. Forever.

XO,

Mummy Cassie