July 24, 2007
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1st Birthday Party
Dear Kristen,
Here's the photos for your 1st birthday party held on Sunday, 22nd July. Uncle Tuan has passed the photos to Daddy so Mummy can upload them! Mummy is still waiting for more photos of the party at Raffles Town Club, quite paiseh to upload to few photographs... She's hoping for better shots before she uploads them.
Mummy just realized that you didn't get to take pictures with the people who helped out the mossssst on that special day! Grandma, Ah Kong & Uncle Kelvin! *FAINT* How forgetful of Mummy. Even more so when you were especially sticky with Grandma that day and wailed every time someone carried you away from her. Sigh. Mummy is knocking her head on the wall now. Sooooo forgetful. Mummy feels so terrible about it. There are more photos waiting to be shown... Mummy is going to take her time doing them though. Her backlog of photos is huge!
Here's a short summary of the party -
That day, you woke up at 8.30am... which was 1.5 hours later than usual. This set everything off-timing because you should be asleep at 11am for your morning nap till about 12.30 (in time for the party), but instead, you fell asleep at 12.30. So... everyone was asking Mummy where you were when they arrived, but our little Guest of Honour just had to be fashionably late. Grandma was upstairs taking care of you (Thank you Grandma...) and brought you down when you woke up, so that Mummy and Daddy could chit chat with their friends.
When you came down at about 1.20pm you were still cranky because you just woke up. So you were sticky and uncooperative in letting other people carry you. Well, you warmed up towards the end, and you were back to your happy self by the time everyone left!
Anyway, everything went pretty smoothly except for the part where the drinks ran out and the cake cutting was delayed. Sorry to those who missed the cake cutting... and the cake eating! Everyone loved the cake, it looked good and tasted great. Mummy saw Uncle Lai and Auntie Mein scraping the cake tray and Little Damien licking the butterfly like a lollipop! The cake was ordered from Hot Fuschia! Mummy wants to order again!
Mummy did not get to eat the food she catered from Mum's Kitchen though. She heard from many people that the food was really good. All Mummy ate during the party was the Mee Siam. She tried the otah and the beef stroganoff later on in the evening though. Very very good. Mummy is hungry now thinking about the food. There was not much leftovers, so it must have been pretty good.
Oh yes, the huge poster that we did up? Must thank Ah Kong and Grandma for printing it all out and using lots and lots of ink (2 cartridges!!!... but Ah Kong says that it's the ink that's lousy... how come can run out after printing 20 pages only?!) And... Daddy & Mummy for cutting and pasting it altogether! At the rate we were going at first, we thought we would finish only at 3am (on the morning of your party... yes, we were pretty last minute). But we soon got the hang of it and finished it at about 1 plus while enjoying an episode of Miami Ink. Hehe.
All in all, the party went pretty smoothly. All Mummy wishes is that we should have taken pictures with the important people ... and that Mummy got to eat more food!
Love,
Mummy
Comments (1)
Dear Kristen,
"Blessed birthday!" from Uncle Irvin and Aunty Elaine.
Sorry we couldnt come down for your evidently lovely party cos Uncle Irvin was down with a fever and a severe throat infection. Knowing you just recovered, we decided not to come lest you get the virus from me..
We got ya something though. Will find time to pass it to your daddy.
And yes, when you grow up, realise that your daddy and mummy has put in so much effort to make your first birthday party a roaring success! So let's honor them together.. clap clap clap!
With much love,
Uncle Irv and Aunty Elaine.