Elric's birthday party!

This post is SUPER OVERDUE.

Yes. I'm sorry. I'm about 3 months late.
But it's still worth writing for memory sake!
:P

A group of mummies and myself whose gave birth to our babies in Dec 2010, came together and held a party for our little ones. We have been keeping up with each other since our pregnancies on Facebook and Whatsapp. It's a meaningful and positive support group we have there. :) 

We made the party plan months before December 2012 and finally decided to hold it at Hokey Pokey which is located at Suntec City level 2. I last heard they are going to shift though.

My first impression of the place was great! There were toys neatly placed at every corner and the floorings were fully covered with rubber mat. I am pretty sure the kids can spend the whole day there without feeling bored.

Elric waited on this cute little blue sofa while we registered him. He was very facinated by it and climbed up and down and over. haha...

Once I registered Elric, the staff came over to take his temperature. (Nice!) We were also expected to put on socks in the play area. Both adults and kids. I forgot to bring my socks that day, so I paid $2 for a pair. Nonetheless, I like the fact that they are careful with health and hygiene. :)

We had 15 families and decided to make it an exclusive party. We started at 12NN and ended at 2PM. Those of us who came first, started playing while waiting for the rest of the families to arrive. Elric was really excited exploring all the toys! All the more when he met the rest of the toddlers! I believe it's mainly because he hasn't started childcare and hardly get to see so many toddlers at one time.

 Junior master chef!

I especially like this slides with the pool of balls! But Elric was frightened because the slide was too high and steep.I am sure older kids would love this. :)

The rest of the kids love it too!

even the mummies too!

Ohh... I forgot to mention. The mummies set the party theme as Sesame Street. So all our little ones were decked in Elmo T-shirts! Some of the mummies and daddies were also dressed to the theme! Cute to the max!

After all the kids had arrived, the staff gathered the kids together. We sang the birthday song and played some group games like passing parcels. You can imagine these kids refusing to pass the nicely wrapped up parcels!

We then gathered for family photos and group photos before the cake cutting ceremony. I would seriously love to see 15 toddlers gathering to blow candles and cutting cake but due to safety reasons, we decided to go with an alternative. CUPCAKES!!

Look at these beautiful Sesame Street cupcakes! Elmo, Oscar and Cookie monster!

mummies!

Daddies!

our family photo!

I like the party setting too!

Even the tidbits were to the theme!

Elric couldn't wait to dig in to his Cookie monster Cupcake!

Isn't he SWEEET?? 

One thing to note, the food were not anything fantastic. They were very basic fried bee hoon and hotdog buns type of food and there were completely no extras. Daddies who were there would probably had to go for a second round else where.

Note: Mummies and Daddies who  are considering holding a party for their kids there, may want to consider checking with external catering is allowed. You may also want to consider feeding your child before going.

After filling our tummies, we proceeded back to the play area for gift exchange and lucky draw!

Elric won the FIRST PRIZE for the gift exchange! hahaha... Elric was a little sad though, he didn't quite know what it's used for.

Last but not least, they had a bubble time! The kids were thrilled! Sometimes, it's really not the expensive things that excite the kids. The simplest thing do too!

We said goodbye at 2PM. We of course didn't have enough. He was reluctant to go. I am sure he enjoyed himself a lot.

One thing to note is the staff handling the event. Personally, I felt that there were only one staff who was more experienced in handling children. The rest of them were just standing around while she was trying so hard to capture the children's attention. They could have faciliated. 

We also had a photographer onsite. Some of the photos you see above were taken by the photographer. (those without watermarks) I think he is pretty good at taking pictures of kids. :)

Overall, I believe Elric have fun and that, to me, is most important. 

I believe many of the children too.

Love,

Mummy Kaye

Preparations for new home!

I have been very busy the last couple of weeks! Any of you who have moved house will probably agree that it's something tedious. The last we shifted was 1 year after Alphonse and I was married. We really enjoyed the time designing and putting together our love nest.

However, it's rather different now. With Elric around, I can't concentrate with designing and selecting of our household items. :( So I am pretty happy to have engaged an interior designer (ID) to help us sort our the most difficult part. DESIGN!

My current home at Seng Kang is 5-room flat with an area of 110sq ft. My new home in Tampines is a 4I flat at 84 sq ft. This means that the amount of space we have to play with is much lesser, and we need to maximise whatever space we have.

My ID is Melvin from Ideal House ID. His office is located at 780 Upper Serangoon Road #01-02 Choon Kim House. (It's very close to Serangoon Shopping Centre) Melvin is a very down to earth ID who understands our needs. As much as we want our house to look good, we need the designs to be functional and the choice of materials should be durable. He has so far provided us with many good advise and we really appreciate them. I certainly hope that the final product will be just as good!


Let me show you a few of the 3D drawing he did for us! :D

 We decided to knock down a piece of wall between the kitchen an living room. That will help to make the place look bigger.

 The kitchen colour matches the living room. Tiffany blue and white. I have built-in cabinets on both sides of the kitchen. It's not reflected in this image though. :)

I must say this is Alphonse and my favourite. lol.
We are planning to buy korean beddings and sleep on the floor. Hence we choose to use laminate flooring so that it will not as cold compared to ceramic tiles.
I would certainly want my built-in wardrobe to be BIGGER, but due to space constrain, I will have to bear with it.

 This is my VERY SMALL master toilet. :(  It's TOO SMALL.
This is a total change from my current toilet where I have space for a vanity cabinet and a full height mirror. Again, I will just have to bear with it lah.
Alphonse wants his toilet to be green. So I chose this green+white tiles for one of the walls. It's quite refreshing. :)

Here's the study room. Similar to the toilet, I chose a lime green for a refreshing look.


You may have noticed that the colour theme are close to the nature. I tried to incorporate the colour of the sky, the sea, the earth and greens into our design.

The coming 2 months will continue to be tiring for Alphonse and I. 
We will have to hand over our keys to our buy by end of March, but our new home will only be ready in in April. Therefore we will have to store all our barangs in a warehouse and stay over at my MIL's home for a month. I'm just hoping all will be well. 

Can't wait to shift over!!!