Jaden 1st Birthday Preparation Part II - ideas ideas ideas

Venue booked...and what's next?

The Theme..yes, whiich theme to pick, all cartoons characters seems so cute to me, so which one to choose for our precious'J birthday bash? Total I picked 4 themes (Barney, Mickey, Sesame Street OR Pooh & The Gang)..after much debate, we settled with 'Pooh & The Gang' Theme bcos our 宝贝 only recognise Pooh the bear and mickey mouse so far bcos these are the only 2 soft toys I left in his cot.

And next is the CAKE...of course to save time, I go straight to our resourceful 姨姨Doris and 姨姨Ro to find out more info on this (1st reaction is 'omg' the cake is not cheap and be prepared to pay a min of S$250 on this if you like to have a really nice pretty one that fit into your birthday theme). And finally mamaAde found something very pretty and settled with the most expensive birthday cake I ever ordered in my life so far!!!

Then the food for our guest (which mamaAde think that 1st birthday bash is actually more for the guest and parents, not very much for the birthday gal/boy)..hahaha..so Food is very important to me for our guest. Thanks to 姨姨Joy who highly recommended a caterer who serve really nice hi-tea..so this is settled!!!

Deco ideas makes me headache bcos too many nice things I hope to get but too little time to get all ready by 6Nov and risky as well just incase my overseas spree order don't come on time (although I went ahead to place some to try my luck). And all thanks to 姨姨Ro for the contacts that she gave for ballons bouquet and other stuff which we can purchase locally and price is reasonable too : )

Goodies baggies for the kiddos...again thanks to our most efficient and resourceful hotmamaRo, we settled for some cute designs which fit the theme just right...order placed and simply love the bags. Now I just need to think of what to give the kids..

Guest list - all done and settled..we have a total of 57 guest, so pray hard all can turn up for this special day for Jaden : )

His Outfit for that day - havn't really settle this part yet , my job is to make sure he looks cute, adorable, handsome and feel comfy on that day...

more updates on this birthday prep to come..so stay tune...

Jaden 1st Birthday Preparation Part 1-Venue?

I always think a baby's first birthday is something special and because as far as my memory can recall, I do not have any birthday celebration in my childhood days at all (am not blaming my parents as they need to feed the 7 of us hence no luxury of birthday bash etc during those days). So since we can afford a humble celebration for Lit'Jaden, we would love to give our precious a memorable 1st birthday bash party when he turns to the BIG 1ONE !

Jaden: Thank u PapaJac & MamaAde..have fun planning a fun one for my guests ya!!!

1st - Venue??

held at home or ?? in the end..after much discussion with PapaJac, we decided to hold it outside so that we don't have to clean up the mess after party time. So he started to source for venue and let me decide. We shortlisted 5 choices..Amazonia at Great World City, Polliwogs at East Coast Park, Peekaboo at Kallang Leisure Mall, Atlantis City at Delta Sports Complex or rent a chalet.

Went Amazonia to check it out (fantastic indoor children entertainment centre, kids sure love it but we did not go for it bcos it was a bit off our budget and they do not allow us to cater our own food plus most importantly Jaden don't know how to appreciate this fantastic indoor playroom yet)

Next, down to Polliwogs (nice to have a private room of your own but the playground is outside of the party room and it is hugh hence if we don't get a professional host, it will be hard for us to gather the kids back for cake cutting session and again, they only provide v limited choice of food for our guest and do not allow us to cater as well..so out of my list)

Then come Peekaboo - been there couple of times with nieces & nephew. The playground was fun but the partition to hold the party is way too small to accomodate all our guest and food restricted too..so totally out again...

Chalet? hmm...too much for us to prepare too and we do not want to stay over after the party plus we need to clean up the mess ourselve definitely..so out of my choice.

Conclusion definitely left with my 1 and only choice (The Atlantis City)..best so far. The venue will be blocked exclusively for us on the chosen timing and they allow us to cater our own food...and the place is not excessively hugh, easy for crowd/kids control ..as you can tell, FOOD is my pirority here bcos 1st birthday party is really for parents and their guests, not very much the b'day boy/girl bcos they are too young to understand what's going on. So, we decided to go for this venue.

。。。都 是 妈 咪 不 好 啦。。。

learnt my lesson..NEVER carry him and pour HOT cooked food at the same time...this is the result of my stupidity and carelessness...mummy regret tilll eternity...so sorry my dear 宝贝 (sad face)

Our Prince Milestones @ 11th Month

Presenting our Prince Jaden 11th Month Milestones

know how to answer phone (chek out video)

wave goodbye with a flying kiss

clap his hands when we sing happy birthday song to him

recognise some animals (see video)

know how to do 拜拜, 恭喜恭喜 when we ask him to

flap his both arms when we say 小鸟飞呀飞 or butterfly fly fly fly

know how to pronounce 'ple ple ple' when i say 'A for Apple'

can point at PapaJac photos when we ask him where is Jaden's 爸爸

cry when I leave home for work in the morning (妈咪的sticky chewy 宝贝咯what to do)