Kyrell's 1st Birthday Bash - 07 Dec 08

We held a small party for Kyrell's 1st at Paulaner Bräuhaus, Millenia Walk, over their Sunday German Brunch - Buffet Style.

We have been thinking about where to hold the party :
- our house is out as I do not want to do the clean up after everyone leaves
- chalet is out as we are too late to do the booking with all the holiday seasons going
- function room in hotel is also out since ours is really a small group and they are usually quite costly

So we extend our search to restaurants and eventually settled with Paulaner because for the fact that they have a kid's corner where children can play while adults eat (not that we have alot of kids guests haha!) and the venue seems bright and cosy and they have a rather wide spread of dishes!

Our guest list is really only a handful of people, our immediate families (but hubby family was out of town) and a couple of our close friends. We kept it low as we do not want to have so many people and in the end, tire ourselves out and also of course, budget constraint.

The theme naturally falls onto "Sesame Street" because Kyrell loves Elmo! I bought some helium balloons and personalised banner for the event. I also ordered a mini cake and cuppies from Little House of Dreams. Nothing too elaborate :)

The morning started off with us loading the gadgets (filled up balloons, helium tank, cake etc) into our car and then picked my parents and sis up. We reached the restaurant and quickly 'decorated' it. Soon, friends started coming. It was only a 2-3 hrs event and (I hope) everyones' feeling comfortable. I have also prepared some goodies bag to be given, together with a picture of darling Kyrell.

All in all, I think it was quite a success, though there is less then 20 guests, I was beat up at the end, with no lunch!!

Here's some pix to share, enjoy!

The goodies bag




What's inside?


The photo tag


The party bag & its content


The balloons


The birthday boy


The venue (taken from Paulaner website)


Kyrell with his balloon sword hehe..


Kyrell with his Godpa Wilxion who's been my friend since 10 years old!


With Emily


With Veronica and Dayna


With Gerladine


With my parent and sis


My sweet darling




The mini cake


The cupcakes with some of Kyrell's fav items :)


Elmo


Pig


Car


Dog






Kyrell with Dayna


Kyrell with his singing balloon... Bye everyone!



Thank you to all who came, your gifts, ang bao and well wishes! I hope you had a great time :)

Austin's Turns 1 Month - 06 Dec 08

Wendy's baby boy turns one month - CONGRATS! - and we were invited to her house for the celebration. For some who do not know, Wendy's elder girl Alexandra is our god-daughter :)

Kyrell with baby Austin (couldn't turn on the flash thats why very blur)


Gosh, Kyrell seems very big beside Austin


Together with Alex




Together with Wendy






Thereafter, we went to Jasmine's baby girl (Jazzell) 1 year old party at Compassvale. It was packed with families and friends~!

Cupcakes from Little House of Dreams


If I remembered correctly, the cake is from Smiling Orchid. Very pretty!


Gotta take a pix with the cake!


A wiggling Kyrell


Closer pix of the cupcake

Pretending To Sleep - 03 Dec 08

Kyrell is getting cheekier by the day.. now he will pretend to sleep (with eyes wide open) when you asked him "How do you sleep/orh orh?" or "How does Elmo sleeps?".
Sometimes, he will "sleep" together with Elmo haha...

Kyrell's 1st Lunar Birthday - 30 Nov 08

The day is lined with activities, in the morning its Kindermusik trial class at Tanglin Mall. Kim and bb Mal was there too. This is actually the 2nd time that I have brought Kyrell there, like the 1st time, I am disappointed that the instructor is not very engaging.

After the lunch with Kim and family, we left for Central Mall at Clarke Quay. The only reason we were there was because my colleague Levan has told me about the Elmo cupcakes that was sold in one of the bakery there! We have to get that, for Kyrell's lunar birthday, to be in line with his Sesame St theme which we are planning to hold for his actual birthday :) So it will be Elmo and Sesame St for his 1st year.. what's next for his 2nd? I cannot imagine for now haha...

Anyway, we did manage to get the cupcakes from the shop, it was adorable! We have a mini cake cutting and some chinese 'rituals' performed at home - just hubby, me and our darling.








At the Kindermusik class, taken from outside the room


After getting the cupcakes, we went to starbucks to have a cuppa while Kyrell yak non-stop :p


Playing with his cheerios






This is the cupcakes we bought, cute right?! :)


With the #1 candle


Kyrell looking curious!


Nevermind the background ok hehe..


Can't keep his hands away from it :p


Having a pc of his cake


Ok, this is the 'ritual' which I mentioned, nothing superstitious, we did it just for the fun. We prepared some items as shown below, and each are supposed to represent a career or his personality. We will let Kyrell crawl towards them and the 1st item he picked is said to be his future career. Then he go on to pick the 2nd and 3rd items.

Example : stethescope = doctor, calculator = finance or good with $, book = studious, the veg ('qing cai') = diligent ('qing lau'), drumstick = boss/never have to worry about food on the table



Crawling towards the items


And the 1st item he picked is....a stethescope!


Next is calculator...


And the last is a book :)
By now, he is getting very restless, tired, hot and diaper lined with his poo!!


For a moment, we thought he might chose the drumstick, big and greasy and smelling nice haha... but we did not end his 'misery' here, we continued with our last act and that is to step on the 'ang gu kueh' which we have bought. The rationale is that after stepping on it, he will starts to walk soon :D







Oily feet!