Eeanne 4 Years Old.....

We celebrated Eeanne's birthday rather early this year because daddy was not around on the real date of Eeanne's big day. Remember during Eeanne's 2nd birthday, mommy made a home made muffin for Eeanne. This year, mommy made a 2nd round baking (since then..:-)) with chocolate cupcake, it was a real success and thanks for the Baker's One ready made recipe..:-)

So it was on 14th May 2011!!!

That morning, mommy woke up earlier than usual to prepare the baking, quite worry that it won't turn out....but with Eeanne's help, everything turn out so perfectly..:-)

My princess..helped to fill in the cup....

mmmm....Eeanne likes the cupcake....yeh!!!

The ready made Baker's One recipe is packed for the size of 16 cups, thus during the party, it was not sufficient to give all the guests a treat...what a waste....mommy should make more in future..hehehe....

Party Time....

Steamboat as our favourite choice, the simplest and cleanest way for party....thanks for mama's help to get all the preparation ready.

The initial plan was to have a simple party with only few Eeanne's cousins, but don't know how it turnout all the KL relatives were invited to share this joyful day:-)...paise...the food was not sufficiently tailored for this unplanned crowd, ended up daddy "ta pao" the Domino Pizza while mama last minute added on the fried bee hoon....(really poor estimation...paise)

since when my princess learn this pose!!??

Kids time.....all the birthday gifts were unwrapped too fast before mommy may have an eye on it....Eeanne was too generous to share unwrapping her gifts with all her cousins...:-P

It was too rush to order a cartoon cake for Eeanne, thus mommy just get Eeanne's favourite fruity garden from Cake Sense without the cartoon character....luckily it was just nice to serve all the guests....:-)

Our family...bobo kong kong purposely made a trip up for this party...big thank you for bobo kong kong!! This year we had Joshua (1st little boy from the left), Eeanne's foster brother to join this happy event, thanks yi bo for bringing Joshua here...

A pose before the birthday song....

We had 2nd celebration on 25th May in Eeanne's kindy. Mommy actually planned to have it on the actual date on 27th but it happened that day was the school teachers-parents day, so we had to make it 2 days earlier. Think this celebration was truly meaningful to Eeanne as this is the first time she had a group of school mates clapping for her, she was really smiling from her inner innocent heart...

Waiting for teachers to calm down the kids....

Eeanne's girl-mates and boy-mates.....

Eeanne was really excited...looking at the pictures, naming all her friends one by one...so where is your best friend?? (still Ashley?)

Teachers cut the cakes for all and mommy's mission accomplished and had to return to work....(mommy purposely took a half day leave to see Eeanne's this joyful moment)...

So what did we do on the actual date of 27th May??

Nothing special....we spent half the afternoon at home playing, then mommy brought Eeanne to Joshua's place for swimming and playing again....

For Eeanne, everyday is a birthday...:-)

With Eeanne, everyday is a gift...:-)

The Making of Eeanne's Birthday Party Part III (post-event)

Eventually the happy moment was over, leaving a cherished memory for a lifetime.....

The immediate next morning was the gifts opening activity, it seemed mommy and daddy were more excited about it than Eeanne was...:-)

Flash back on all the efforts, mommy loves the scrapboard the most especially with all the big letters kids' signatures on it, it really makes it a memorable art craft. So mommy decided to blend it with a Thank You note and sent out as an e-card to all the guests.


e-Thank You card with the kids' signatures on the left


All the birthday presents...

Gift from daddy...an innovative educational shopping list bought from S'pore

Gift from mommy...a 3D puzzle on Cinderella castle


Gift from kong kong & bobo, bought from recent Taiwan trip

Educational activity books from aunt Mei Ping

Play-Doh from Shin Ying che che

Barbie Doll from Jean che che

A thoughtful gift from sam sam...a picnic tent

Bear toy from Sean koko

A Poney dress from 3rd suk bo

A mini garden slide puzzle from Euhern koko & Euche di-di

Multi-size saving containers and Play-Doh from Ryenne

Drawing board and Swans 24pc coloured pencils from ku che

A doll music box from Jia Ern che che

Besides the above, before the party, Eeanne had a pyjamas gift from mama, angpow from yeye and ku boh.

Now after the party, mommy is cracking the head to think about how to store sorting all the toys on top of what Eeanne already has. So mommy bought another bigger container to put all the new toys, spent a one whole Sunday to sort out & tidy up the old toys. Then only mommy realises Eeanne has too many toys and some are already long in hibernation, it is time to bring out and plan for each weekend activity!!.

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That night before going to sleep:

Eeanne: I'm grateful for what I have...

The Making of Eeanne's Birthday Party Part II (at the party)

On the party day...
Mommy's initial plan was to get Eeanne a princess costume, mommy searched around few websites on this and got to know 2 costume rental shops with reasonable price, one is in Puchong Kinrara and the other is in Sea Park. Mommy and Eeanne rushed all the way from work to Sea Park one day planning to try on the costume, the shop assistant was so kind to wait for us even though she had been late for her class in Kepong, we would like to send our gratitude to her.

There were only 2 costumes available for Eeanne's size, Cinderella and Snow White. It is too simple design on Cinderella costume, comparatively Snow White costume is more attractive but it is a bit out from our party theme of Cinderella, furthermore mommy doesn't quite like the polyesther material which is not sweat proof and warm to wear, thinking Eeanne will not enjoy the party with this costume on the night. So mommy gave up to check out the other shop too in Puchong Kelana.

Finally we decided to wear this Osh Kosh dress which ku che bought for Eeanne from U.S. Mmm...mommy still think that it was a wise choice as the material is so...comfortable to wear, look simple and nice.


My birthday girl with Chloe...


Bobo and kong kong can't wait to take a pic with the princess...

The kid guests putting their signatures on the scrapboard


The Cinderella theme fruity garden cake from Cake Sense


Eeanne couldn't wait to cut the cake. Once the birthday song was sang over, Eeanne licked the side of the cake infront of all her friends!!!..The cake taste so irresistable....

My loving family...

See how sweaty Eeanne was, look like just having her hair washed

To entertain all the kids, mommy had arranged a few games to play on the party day. It was really not easy to handle kids especially to get their attention, instructions were not followed and the most difficult part is the ice-breaking between the kids:-). Anyhow, we managed to finish some of the simple and short games, the kids were happy with the simple gifts too I hope, kids are so easy to get contented, haha.

These are that days programmes:

6-7pm: Arrivals of the guests

7-8pm: Buffet dinner

8-8.45pm: Games for kids

9pm: Cake cutting

9-10pm: Lets the kids miggle!

Games Activity:

- Animal In the Farm

- Monkey See, monkey So

- Cinderella says...

- Magic show by daddy

The only games that didn't manage to play is the Animal Reunion...mommy prepared the own printed parents and baby animals pic, pasted in on the manila card to make own mini flash cards, thinking to give to the kids to match the baby animals with the parent animals, now this have to reserve for Eeanne's own weekend activity.

The Making of Eeanne's Birthday Party Part I (Pre-event)

After much planning and thinking, we decided to have a mini size party to celebrate Eeanne's 3 y.o. birthday. This party objective is solely meant for Eeanne, not just for adult gathering. As in Eeanne's 2 y.o. birthday, we had steamboat at home with only Chloe, Max and Ian, so this round we decided to have more kids around and invited few of mommy's and daddy's friends and their children.

It took mommy's almost a month to do the preparation, mommy spent each night after work to come out Eeanne's video clip. As a non-techno savvy mommy, it is really quite time consuming to produce even a single simple video clip with song, think this job can be done just within 1 hour by a IT man..:P

Initially it was mommy's ideal plan to have 3 shows, 1 solely on picture slide show from baby to 1 y.o., 1 video show from 1yo. till now, but since video capture is not much, so thinking to have the 3rd slide show mainly on Eeanne's recent activities.

But after finished the 1 and 2nd show, mommy faced the problem on burning it into CD!(really lousy in IT), mommy has wasted few CD and still not able to burn a single one. It was another 2 days to the party, so mommy has gave up the 3rd show making..sorry Eeanne....will save it for next birthday maybe:-). But on the party day, so lucky to have Uncle Sean to assist mommy on how to burn the video show into CD, and mommy made it finally, yeh...! Even though it is too late after the party which mommy can't show it on TV to the guests, at least mommy can save a copy for collection! Still... the 2nd show unable to be burned due to the software error, it can only be watched from mommy's labtop, think have to redo one day :-(



An e-invitation card that mommy made for Eeanne. Mommy's first art work after so many years, so proud to show off to all, so mommy down-size it and sent to friends via text messages, pitifully some of the handphones are not compatible to receive mommy's this hardwork:-/


Mommy and Eeanne spent one whole Saturday afternoon to pack all the door gifts for kids.

Some of the freebies to give away on the party games

Special thanks to Kong Kong & Bo Bo for helping to blow all these balloons and create the party mood with this decoration

But the "Happy Birthday" hanging mobiles was daddy's dedication, because of this hanging mobile, daddy got his head knocked by the cabinet door just the night before the party day and ended up admitted midnight for the head X-ray! Luckily there was no inner injury. Daddy needs to be more mindful.

Special thanks to Ma ma and kakak in preparing all these tasty food. Of course besides these, there were other catering dishes.

haha..this is mommy's labtop special arranged by daddy to let the guests to enjoy the video clip show. Daddy said mommy's hard work couldn't be wasted even though it can't be burned into CD.

Princess theatre show and the scrapboard made by mommy for guest to put down their memorable signatures

Anticipating for the event.....

To be continued on The Making of Eeanne's Birthday Party Part II