An Autumn Celebration

Alhamdulillah, Aliyah turned 7 yesterday. 7 years old is a major milestone in her life-long learning to be the best of Mukmin. May Allah gave us the guidance and persistence to lead and show her and all our children the Way. Amin.  

We actually started celebrating her birthday on Saturday because rain was forecast for Sunday which would make ferrying them around difficult. Anyway, she wanted some Happy Meals toys, so we drove to Brunswick East to one of the few Halal Macdonald's restaurant in Melbourne. She was so happy that all the toys were from the animation movie 'Rio'. She even brought all 3 of them, Pedro, Rafael and Kipo for her show and tell to school today.

We later drove back to the university, because I promised the children that they can feed the ducks. So we stopped by Simpsons Lawn. It was a beautiful sunny day. Autumn was in its full fledged colorful wonders near the Lawn. No need to drive all the way to Bright this year. Everything is just within a few minutes drive from Barnes Way :-D

Luqman sangat suka all the fallen leaves. Even ate a few of them...oooppss.
When I first found out I was having him, we were visiting Bright in Autumn :-)
Well, go figure his attachment with Autumn.

Sure enough, as we strolled down the fallen leaves, we encountered many others who had dropped by to snap a few pictures, evidence of a changing season. There's even a 'lost feathered angel' shooting nearby. Well, don't ask me to explain that. We also met Jep and his 3 DKNY models ..ha..ha..ha.. 

One of Jep's Model of the Day - LTU PhD candidate, Adil (ex-student UiTM Merbok). 
Luqman likes him a lot :-D 

Anyway, as for Jep, I pray one day he'll get paid doing this - taking beautiful shots of Autumn, in this case with us in it. :-D

Pictures - Courtesy JEP. TQVM.

Oh...did I say 3 days of celebration? Well, yesterday, I baked a cake for Aliyah. Looks kinda nice, he..he..he.. but I don't think I am going to open a cake shop any time soon...hu..hu..hu..

As for today, I bought some mini cupcakes and eclairs for Aliyah to celebrate her birthday with her classmates. She seems to have forgotten about the "Princess". She was happily distributing cakes and the eclairs to all her friends in class and later 'showing and telling' the toys she got from the Happy Meals.

May Aliyah be the best that she can be and the best of Mukmins, Insya Allah, Amin.