Jaime’s 1st Birthday

I am truly sorry that I owed this to Jaime for more than 4 months…

Our little girl has finally crossed her first year! Time sure flew by without us realizing it… And I think she grows up TOO FAST!

As a mum of 2, I’m constantly reminding myself that I have to be fair to both… Sometimes I get really excited over the Jaelyn, the first child, and all her achievement, when it comes to the second one, I tend to compare… Stuffs like… why is she not crawling yet? Why is she not walking still? Why she still can’t sleep through… I thought the second kid supposed to hit all her milestones earlier? Jaime has just proven me wrong! But still, I love her to the bits!

Its her first birthday! I wanted to do something special but with two kids, budget is really a constraint!

But still, we managed to give her a personalised Mickey Mouse theme Birthday! I really almost contemplated to reuse Jaelyn’s first birthday deco… Winnie the Pooh… but I felt sorry for Jaime if she has to reuse all her sister’s hand me down… EVEN the birthday theme. So I got her her very own Minnie Mouse Balloon Bouquet! Woah! It’s really nice!

I wanted to get a nice cake from Pine Garden but after sending them umpteen emails till the birthday was over, I did not get any reply. We managed to get a nice and flavorsome cake from Savoury Fare instead. And added on the nice mickey mouse shape jelly!

Though we have a small turnout for the Birthday… We are very grateful for our guests who showed up. It made a difference for us and our little princess.

Last but not least, Jaime, mummy loves you very much! Daddy & Jie Jie too!

Jaime’s First Lunar Birthday

Jaime’s lunar birthday on the 5th of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar! We did a small celebration! She tasted her first Mee Sua! And we let her “抓周”, a Chinese tradition where the child picks an item on the first lunar birthday that symbolises her future. To our surprise, she chose… “葱”which means smart (the sound 聪明)… followed by the chicken drumstick, which we all expected! LOL… Good… she is going to be a smart girl!!! Clap Clap!!!

And we brought her to Kiddy Palace to buy herself a proper pair of shoes for her first birthday! She can really shop and tell you what she likes!

Jaelyn turns 4!

It’s been almost a long long while since I last posted… But I just can’t miss this one…

My Princess turning 4 years old!

Her Birthday request was to go to the zoo! So we brought her to the zoo on her birthday morning! She totally totally enjoyed herself!

And we have a small family celebration in the evening. She is one happy girl! I’m so proud of my Princess… It seems like just yesterday we had her in our arms and now… She is all grown up… Mummy loves you and wants you to be this happy forever!

Jaelyn turns 3!!!

Time really flies… My princess is already 3 years old!

I wanted to have a fun party for my princess but it’s difficult to do that this year given my situation. I feel sorry for my little girl. But I really tried my best. I’m thankful enough to be home for her special day. Hope she can understand.

This is the first time Jaelyn gets to celebrate her birthday in school! As her birthday falls exactly on the 2nd day of CNY, so we celebrated her birthday earlier on 31st Jan 2011. She chose the Baby Bop’s cake herself!

Of course, given her love for Disney Princess, you can imagine how she has been bugging me for a Princess birthday cake. Firstly, it’s hard to get one and secondly, seriously not much online baker will bake on the 2nd day of CNY. Anyway, I ordered Swensens' ice-cream cake with Disney Princess design for her on her actual birthday.

It was a very impromptu birthday celebration because I just made it home a week before this big day. We wanted to keep it small as I needed bed rest most of the time and can’t have a big group. We have both our families and a few close friends to celebrate her birthday on 4th Feb 2011, her actual birthday. She really loves her Princess cake! It was a small celebration  and she had a great time playing with her cousin, Gabriel and her favorite Auntie Grace and Auntie Fengyi.

I’m very grateful to our family members who make an effort to come celebrate with us for Jaelyn. And special thanks to Grace, Fengyi, Suzy, Chevy & Angela for popping by within such short notice. How can we live without family & friends?

Jaelyn turns 2!

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Jaelyn’s 2nd Birthday!

Having a kid makes me realised how much effort is needed to prepare for a Birthday!

Some people prepare for their kid’s Birthday as early as half a year in advance. Me? Hmm… I think about 1month or less???

Jaelyn’s birthday is just 5 days after Daddy’s. So every year, end January beginning of February is a busy period for me. It’s just me alone, planning for 2 birthdays! This year, Daddy really wanted to have a chalet BBQ and frankly, I have no idea what to do for Jaelyn. I mean she is just 2 years old! She has no much friends, neither do I have many friends with kids. It’s really hard, trying to figure out 5 kids to invite for her Birthday, I only managed to get 2 toddlers (Jayden and Claire) and 2 other babies (Gabriel and Nat). Good enough, really! I thought to myself, would she even remember she had a birthday party when she was two?

My sister-in-law has generously blessed us with a chalet unit at Downtown East! Vincent is totally excited about his BBQ birthday and me? The Birthday cake of course! I love cakes!!!

Well, you can see that the father and daughter are enjoying their birthday party! My daughter actually enjoyed satay! One of my favourites too!

Love the cake! I ordered from Pine Garden and it tastes FAB!!!The design is nice too! Just that the pink wordings can’t stand out, can’t really see JAELYN…

Jaelyn was enjoying the chalet so much that she cried and kicked the taxi door the next morning when we checked out to go home. But you bet she had a great time unwrapping her presents when we got home!

I make it a point to celebrate her birthday again on the actual day - 4th February. Look at my princess, she wore a crown and a top with many colors!!! Another tasty cake from Bakerzin. Yummy!

I just want to say, “Jaelyn, Mummy loves you! Always!!!”

(Missing her dearly now…)

Happy Birthday Jaelyn!!!

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Jaelyn’s actual Birthday is on 4th Feb 2009. Vincent decided that we buy a small cake and sing her birthday song at home as a mini celebration. She is really really happy! Hmm…. I think for now, she is still at the stage that she prefers to be among us because she hasn’t really develop her social skills. Happy Birthday my Darling!!!

Jaelyn 1st Birthday Celebration

We celebrated Jaelyn’s 1st Birthday yesterday on 1st Feb 2009. We brought it a few days earlier as Vincent is going reservist on the actual day of Jaelyn’s Big Day.

We wanted a small party so we invited our relatives and a few friends who are closer to us.

Hmm… the whole party was fun EXCEPT for the cake cutting part! We wanted to cut cake at 3.30pm when most of the guests are here… Alan and Veron are helping out in the kitchen to stack the cupcakes onto the 3-tier cake stand and LO and BEHOLD!!! My princess knock out on my shoulder. Argh….

She was too excited since morning and we just couldn’t get her to take her nap since 12noon… And just before we wanted to cut cake, she totally concussed!

Then we gotta quickly keep the cupcake back into the box so that we can keep the cupcakes refrigerated. And the relatives started to leave… Oh man… I just don’t know how to react… Literately every relatives left except for my parents, sister and niece. Thank God we still have our wonderful friends who stayed behind…

Jaelyn seems to know that these kind “uncles & aunties” who stayed behind also have to leave soon… So she took a 30min nap instead of her usual 2hrs. She woke up around 4.15pm. Just in time to cut her cake before our friends have to leave.

After the cake cutting, photo taking and all, I thought it would be fun to have the Chinese Tradition “抓周”where the Baby gets to pick something on her first birthday which will symbolize what she would do in future . We prepared a few stuff –coin, wallet, name stamp, book, pen, calculator, chicken drumstick and some vege that sounds like hardworking (勤), smart (聪) and prosperous (算). We let her picks 3 items. And guess what???

She first chose the coin. We thought its coincident so we put in the wallet and she aimed for the wallet on her second pick. Then her third item was the chicken drumstick. So my baby is going to be very rich and lacking nothing in her life!!! Haha… so interesting!!!

Anyway, Jaelyn didn’t sleep until 12midnight… She was over-stimulated. I believe she enjoyed herself and had fun on her 1st Birthday Celebration!

Jaelyn’s 1st Birthday Cake & Cupcakes!!!

Birthday cake by http://myssaliana.multiply.com

Cupcakes from http://www.sweetestmoments.com.sg/