1st Birthday: A-F-T-E-R

The boy started to get cranky and showed sign of tireness towards the end of the session, when most of the guest headed home.

Luckily I borrowed a sling from a friend, managed to sling him walking around the place. In the end, the birthday boy knocked out, way way exceed his afternoon nap hour.

We didn't unwrap the presents until the following days. of course, with his Che Che's help.

To all my guest who turned up - thank you very much for making Sean's present a fun and meaningful one. We hope you had a good time celebrating his first birthday. Oh ya, thanks for all your presents and ang pows.

1st Birthday Party: D-U-R-I-N-G

I engaged a clown for the party!

Obviously, this is more for Ern (and friends at her age) than Sean. Sean is too young to know anything but he received the first balloon from this lady clown - a bike (too bad forgot to take picture). Very nice!

Most of the children LOVE her because she is giving creative balloons in various shapes and form while also playing with them, eg asked the children the blow the balloons. Fun,fun, fun!!

Worth the money spent in engaging her as the whole floor just live up with the children's laughter! The parents just chilled out drinking wine and played catch up!

So what happened to the birthday boy? He was happily 'ee ee ah ah" with his nanny. I just loved this photo!!!


I ordered the same cake like his Che Che - 3D Winnie the Pooh Brownie.


Sean cried when I tried to carry him over from MIL during the birthday song singing part. He must have thought I am taking him away from his grandma (yup, both my children is very close to MIL!) So you can see his teary eyes in this picture.


He stopped crying when we were about to blow the candle and cut the cake. Just right timing to stop crying :-)


Oh ya, I also prepared some art work for the children to do. Simple one, I got the idea from Jeremy's Mummy. I just took out my scrapbooking 'ka chang' (embellishments), put double sided tap at the back, buy lollipop and viola!

1st Birthday Party: B-E-F-O-R-E

I sent Sean to his nanny...to ensure he has his morning nap and lunch. Oh ya, I decided to have the party in the afternoon so that the children (that are invited) won't get too "hyper" after then LOL Actually, sending him to nanny also enable me to have time to decorate the restaurant and talk to the guest.

Honestly, I have lots of ideas to decorate his party BUT...time is the main constrain. Hubb has been on the road very frequent and that leave me very little time to work on it. The ideas that I had require lots of scrapbook time. In the end, I have to stay put to have things simple.

What do I come out with?? Nothing fancy, honestly. Almost the same as what I did for Ern's:

--> His first 12 months photos

I sticked the photos on his rompers, singlets, hat and booties. Save me lots of time in cutting.

Month 1-6


Month 7-12


I printed out triangle flags that has the number "1", glue them on the satay sticks and put on the food.

I managed to have the whole restaurant (2 floors) booked as our private function. This certainly enable personalized decoration, both from the owner of the restaurant and myself.

Ground floor: Reserved for guest without small children

The owner put up the 'happy birthday Sean" wordings at the food corner. Since it's near to Chinese New Year, he also put up lots of cherry blossom (fake one, of course).


The desert corner was nicely arranged and decorated. Actually, one of the reasons that I booked this place was they serve quite good taste desert! haha



First floor: For guest with small children

The balloons that were tie to the chairs (love them!).



The door entrance - I bought the banner and print out the alphabet on Sean's name.



There is small corner for guest to chill out!


Next post: During the party!

His First Party

His actual day is on 16th Feb, which falls on the 3rd day of CNY. Hence, we have to pull in the date as no one would turn up for the party! haha

Daddy and I decided to do it outside of the house as it was so TIRING on the clean up during Ern's 1st birthday party that we did 4 years ago. We can't deny age is catching up and with 2 kids to handle, it's even more challenging.

I started to plan the party few months back - shortlist the venues, venue decoration, party favor, activities for the children to play, invitation card, etc. It's fun, I have to admit! Well, well, I love plan and organize event for my kids. LOL!!!

For those of you are being invited, see you this Sunday!

His First Baby Step

He made his first baby step last week!

This week, increase to 2 steps before he sit down and crawl.

So officially, my boy is walking, even it's small baby steps.

PS: It means more cardio exercise for mummy!