Princess Adelle lunar birthday & birthday party - 4th Jan 09

The date

Princess Adelle lunar birthday happened to fall on a sunday so we decided to hold her birthday party on that day.

The venue

Our house is definitely out of consideration. Reason being we are inviting our friends, colleagues and immediate family so abt 50-70 pax cannot squeeze into my small flat. We also tot of either hold it at Hort park, condo function room or community centre. Finally we shortlisted the function room of Carribbean cos it is near MRT and Weili managed to help us to book the place too. Thanks Weili & Sihui. :)

The theme

Theme of the party is Pooh & friends! Cos Pooh is her idol mah!! Here's the simple invitation card that i have done up for Adelle. I also ordered some Pooh party decoration items from BP but the stuff was stuck in Vpost USA due to xmas and new year holidays. :( So at the very last hour, i have to buy some 2nd hand pooh party decoration items to decorate up the place.

The day

Initially we planned to reach Carribean by 11am but due to the following reasons, we only reached at 12pm :

• Adelle take her own sweet time ie 30mins to eat her porridge. *Faint* She normally takes 10mins to finish up the porridge but that day, she refused to cooperate.
• We need to pick up my aunty before going to Carribean so that she can help to babysit Adelle while we busy decorating the place
• We need to go over to Bugis to inflat helium air into the mylar balloons and the candy shop staff took her own sweet time to inflat the helium air.
  

When we reached the carpark of Carribean, i received phone call from the Mum's Kitchen. They were at the function room and asked if they can proceed to do the setup. I quickly rushed up to the function room and within 20-30minutes, they completed the job. The food looks good, portion was huge and taste good too.

After the catering staff left, some of our friends arrived. We asked them to help us to pump the balloons while we put up the scene setter and banners. I also tried to tie the balloons under the big mylar balloon, an idea that i stole from some website i saw few days back. I was glad that the overall decoration look quite nice. :) Thanks to Allan, Rykiel, Esther, Royy and Weili for helping us to do up the decoration.

At 1pm, a lot of guests started to arrive and we are ready to welcome the guest. Adelle was very excited seeing the kor kors and jie jies. All the kids get a goodie bag which comprises of pooh bear items. We also asked my friend Anne to help us to do balloon sculpting to give to each kid as souvenir to bring home. The function was big enough to cater for 70 pax excluding children. We allocated area for dining, area for gifts and cutting cake, buffet area and another small area for the kids to run around and playing with balloons. It was really packed with adults and kids!

Around 2pm, eCreative arrived with the pooh bear cake that i have ordered few days back. I was glad that the cake turn up to be quite nice cos i requested them to remove the grass(i find it ugly) and add in pink trimming, pink hearts and flowers. The sale lady was "complaining" on the phone saying "wah so many changes ah". And i was worried whether she did follow the instruction i gave her but thank god she did! I love the cake as much as Adelle.. wahahaa... :P

We intended to cut the cake at 2.30pm as most of the guests had their lunch and some are starting to leave already. I quickly asked hubby to get the cake ready as everyone was waiting. The cake cutting was delayed until 3pm as daddy family only reached by then. :( Everyone waited until very sian already and my princess also very sleepy. When we finished singing the birthday song, Adelle also no mood to clap liao. Haiz... cos she didn't have any nap the whole day.

Overall the party was a successful one as the food was good, cake taste good and many friends came too. The party ended at 3.45pm and we managed to clear the place by 4pm. My sister help me to send my parents, aunty and nephew back home while we squeeze all the presents into our small little car. A big thank u to all of you who came for the party and thanks for the gifts and angbaos too. :)

After the party

We reached home before 5pm and Adelle wanted to play with the big pooh balloon. I forgotton that the ceiling fan was on and tried to pass her the balloon. Suddenly we heard a loud bursting sound! Hai.... the balloon gone cos the ceiling fan burst it.... So sad loh... Adelle didn't cry but i was terribly upset cos it was quite expensive leh.... :'(

Adelle managed to catch a 1+hr nap in the evening and then we unwrap the presents for her to take some pic. Look at how tired she was after the long day......