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!