Birthday Gift From PapaJac to Lit'Jac

PapaJac favourite brand - The Stokke (Tripp Trapp Chair)

The B.I.G Day for our 'Precious'

After the long preparation and finally today is the day for PARTY TIME !!! My Big THANKS to our family members who help to make this day happening and fun for our little precious one BIG DAY (Jaden, mummy wanted to tell you that you are so so blessed with all the love surrounding you)

The party suppose to start from 3pm sharp and we were only given access into the playroom to do all the set up at 2.40pm bcos there was another birthday party before ours. So we gotta wait for them to clear off all their stuff before we can start ours. It was kinda of a mad rush but all thanks to my super 快手快脚的 sistaGrace , Stacey and Peter, we managed to finish all the deco before the guest arrived.

And here come the most expensive cake I ever ordered in my life...dang dang dang dang....super like this cake and most of the kids went..wahh wahh wahh..so $$ well spent ...BIG THANK YOU to Aunty Doris for helping us to collect this beautiful cake...kiss kiss from BabyJJ : )))

And the party get started...most guest were very sporting and came dressed in either 'RED' or 'ORANGE' the pooh bear theme colour...kids started going wild in the playroom...they seems to be well self-entertained with lotz of climbing...running...catching...screaming in the room...so conclusion, holding this party outside and not at home is a great idea and decision made : ))Overall, the birthday par-tea time went well and I am so proud of PapaJac and myself for organising this very 1st Birthday party in our life. Though the entire preparation process was very challenging and tiring but we totally enjoyed it so so much. Many thanks for all the guest who came and shared this joy with us and making this 1st birthday bash party for our Lit'precious Jaden an unforgetable ones. Last but not least, not forgetting the gift and angpows from all the aunties & uncle ...This party will not be so this awesome, fun & memorable without you you & you : )))

Home Sweet Home with our dearest FitFit after an afternoon of fun & excitement (^ - ^)

Jaden 1st Birthday Preparation Final Countdown!!!

And finally the arrival of the deco stuff is here after much waiting and some were hand me down from Aunty Angeline (my customer) who also had a 'pooh' theme party for her son 2yrs back...plus the 2 sets of outfit which I specially ordered for the birthday boy is finally here too...and now we are almost ready for the ParTea session !!!!

Jaden 1st Birthday Preparation Part IV - Goodies Baggies...

Initially, I thought it is a very easy task to get the goodies bag ready but I am totally wrong. This is infact the toughest part of the entire preparation. Seriously don't know what to give to the invited kids bcos of the age ranging from 1yr old to 14yrs old...and bcos this is my 1st time planning a birthday party mainly for kids, plus the fact that I hope to get something useful for the kids and is within my budget range...omg, 我的天啊。。。真的是难倒我了咯。。Finally, after some thoughts, I decided on the following...some Crayola pens, chess game set and junk foodie for the kids...hopefully the kids love it...

Jaden 1st Birthday Preparation Part III - Invitation Card

dang dang dang....simple & cute Birthday E-Invite Card is finally OUT !!!

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.