Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Decorating a Cake for Daddy!

I happen to come across this shop-'The Icing Room" when I 1st visited 313@Somerset. Impressed by it's speciality where you get to decorate your own cake. Don't you think it's a refreshing and interesting idea? You get to lay your hands on creating own master piece! Anyway, this come to my mind suddenly and I know Ashley will love this. In my plan, the kids will decorate a cake for Daddy as Jeremy's birthday is drawing near. Indeed! When I throw the idea to the kids, Ashley gets excited and look forward to this day. As such, I have a deal with her. She completes all her work and learn her spelling by Sat latest, she will have Sun to 'get the cake dressed up'! Ashley has been good girl since she has something to work upon. Haha! Each day, she looks at the calendar and cross out the date... counting down to 27Mar! The day arrives. We had a swim in the morning, washed up before we pop over to 313. Both kids are excited especially Ashley. After all, she has been waiting for this day. There are few cake dimension to select from. After much discussion, we go for a 6" cake, vanilla sponge. The package includes the cake with white cream based, 1 pack of icing flower decorates and 3 creams (blue, yellow and pink). I add another heart-shaped decorates. For all, I paid about $24. Quite reasonable, I think.... We choose a corner and Ashley starts her 'project'. Cieran is not as keen for a start. He is easily distracted and more keen on walking around The Icing Room instead. Haha... I suppose, he's probably too young for such a decorating job. Ashley enjoys herself very much though. Finally Cieran helps a little by throwing the rainbow decorates on the cake. I stood near, taking photos of the 2 kids. A pity I didn't have my camera with me... but thanks to the technology to mobile phones... camera function comes in handy! We didn't disclose our 'mission' to Jeremy and he has no idea why and what we are doing at 313. He is merely a driver sending and picking us. Ashley likes to keep this a secret. Frequently, she reminds Cieran not to tell daddy that we got him a cake... haha! The children are so lovely! In the car ride home, Cieran mentions about the cake, and it's so funny.... Ashley quickly stops him and covers his mouth with her hands! I am sure Jeremy knows what's the kids are up to... after all, he can see the cake box that I am holding. Nonetheless, he will never guess that it was decorated by the children!In the evening, we went to Nex Shopping Mall. Our 1st time since it's opening. We had dinner at Jack's Place. It was such a heavy dinner (can't finished the food that was ordered) that we had to take a stroll around the mall and the water playground. The kids are trilled when I allow them to each choose a DVD. Ashley selected Princess stories, while Cieran got his favourite Buzz Lightyear. Back home, the children immediately asked for the cake! They cant wait to show Daddy their creations! Indeed, Jeremy didn't expect that the cake turned out to be the children's art work. The family have fun time together and the day end with ..... FULL stomach!