Finally the day of Sasha’s party arrived and since it was being held in the evening, we didn’t have to rush so much in the day. But we were still late!
The theme was Polka Dots, initially I wanted to do something Greek-related and was hunting high and low for a suitable place. Was gonna call it ‘My Big Fat Greek 1st Birthday’ but alas it was not meant to be. Maybe her second birthday, LOL!
Polka dots was partly inspired by the party décor I ordered online and the dress I had lined up for her months ago. Also, because we’d done flowers and rainbow stripes for Nat already, I wanted something different but still easy to pull off. Here was the invite inspired by her dress.
The venue was Hort Park, same room Nat had her birthday so at least they won’t compare parties when they’re older because I tried to be even to both. I did a slideshow to loop of Sasha’s photos over the past year, and ordered cake from the same freelance baker. Food was from Four Seasons Catering, one of Hort Park’s official caterers. It was alright, much better than Nat’s Care Bear Party and Ma made a couple of dishes to supplement, which was wiped out fast!
We could only take possession of the room at 5.30pm, party started at 6.30pm but I had invited people with kids to come earlier if they wanted to go to the playground. So there were some earlybirds who came in the middle of us setting up, and they landed up lending a hand, like the Pereiras!
Swana arrived not long after and brought the kids to see the fish and go to the playground while the rest of us frantically blew balloons and pasted circles on the wall.
My decorations almost didn’t arrive in time though I had ordered them 3 weeks prior. After chasing and getting Comgateway to check, they finally arrived 2 days before the party, I was getting so edgy!
Made a couple of trips to Middle Road to buy goodie bag stuff and a piñata…took me ages to decide if I even wanted a piñata! Nearly bought a Dalmatian one for its spots, but decided against it because I didn’t want to encourage children to ‘beat’ dogs.
As usual, the party was a blur to me, because I was official photographer and trying to keep track of the programme and at the same time, make sure kids are entertained.
There were lots of polka-dotty guests, it was funny to see. Even Kevin had dots on his shirt and Nick had tiny circles. Trust Germaine to come in pajama pants just because they had dots on them, only she can pull it off!
Joanne and Rayhan were in town again, so we had the pleasure of their company at the party too. Ray is such a pie, just does whatever Joanne tells him to do, including kiss Nat! Real ladies man, this one!
Roped in Rachel and Swana to help conduct the games, mainly the smaller farts played. We did a ‘Stick the candle on the cupcake’, Statue Dance and the piñata. Caitlin had the closest candle on the poster so she won a prize, loved her romper!
Statue Dance was a bit difficult to control and judge, because kids that age cannot stay still for nuts! And I had no heart to kick them out. There was a funny moment when Alistair kept throwing himself at Rachel’s legs and clinging on for dear life!
Ethan was the one who picked the correct string to release the piñata catch, I bet Albert who was helping him had studied it before and knew exactly which string to pull! Heh heh.
Before I knew it, it was time to cut cake! It was a bit tough to cut through the icing, plus it was so tall. Really glad I picked the chocolate from Jin’s Cakes, it was moist and rich, and not overly sweet and there were lots of compliments.
Thank you to all who came and for your generous ang pows and gifts, I’m sorry we were such lousy hosts, but you know how these things are. Wished I could have chatted more but was so distracted. 1000 apologies!
The theme was Polka Dots, initially I wanted to do something Greek-related and was hunting high and low for a suitable place. Was gonna call it ‘My Big Fat Greek 1st Birthday’ but alas it was not meant to be. Maybe her second birthday, LOL!
Polka dots was partly inspired by the party décor I ordered online and the dress I had lined up for her months ago. Also, because we’d done flowers and rainbow stripes for Nat already, I wanted something different but still easy to pull off. Here was the invite inspired by her dress.
The venue was Hort Park, same room Nat had her birthday so at least they won’t compare parties when they’re older because I tried to be even to both. I did a slideshow to loop of Sasha’s photos over the past year, and ordered cake from the same freelance baker. Food was from Four Seasons Catering, one of Hort Park’s official caterers. It was alright, much better than Nat’s Care Bear Party and Ma made a couple of dishes to supplement, which was wiped out fast!
We could only take possession of the room at 5.30pm, party started at 6.30pm but I had invited people with kids to come earlier if they wanted to go to the playground. So there were some earlybirds who came in the middle of us setting up, and they landed up lending a hand, like the Pereiras!
Swana arrived not long after and brought the kids to see the fish and go to the playground while the rest of us frantically blew balloons and pasted circles on the wall.
My decorations almost didn’t arrive in time though I had ordered them 3 weeks prior. After chasing and getting Comgateway to check, they finally arrived 2 days before the party, I was getting so edgy!
Made a couple of trips to Middle Road to buy goodie bag stuff and a piñata…took me ages to decide if I even wanted a piñata! Nearly bought a Dalmatian one for its spots, but decided against it because I didn’t want to encourage children to ‘beat’ dogs.
As usual, the party was a blur to me, because I was official photographer and trying to keep track of the programme and at the same time, make sure kids are entertained.
There were lots of polka-dotty guests, it was funny to see. Even Kevin had dots on his shirt and Nick had tiny circles. Trust Germaine to come in pajama pants just because they had dots on them, only she can pull it off!
Joanne and Rayhan were in town again, so we had the pleasure of their company at the party too. Ray is such a pie, just does whatever Joanne tells him to do, including kiss Nat! Real ladies man, this one!
Roped in Rachel and Swana to help conduct the games, mainly the smaller farts played. We did a ‘Stick the candle on the cupcake’, Statue Dance and the piñata. Caitlin had the closest candle on the poster so she won a prize, loved her romper!
Statue Dance was a bit difficult to control and judge, because kids that age cannot stay still for nuts! And I had no heart to kick them out. There was a funny moment when Alistair kept throwing himself at Rachel’s legs and clinging on for dear life!
Ethan was the one who picked the correct string to release the piñata catch, I bet Albert who was helping him had studied it before and knew exactly which string to pull! Heh heh.
Before I knew it, it was time to cut cake! It was a bit tough to cut through the icing, plus it was so tall. Really glad I picked the chocolate from Jin’s Cakes, it was moist and rich, and not overly sweet and there were lots of compliments.
Thank you to all who came and for your generous ang pows and gifts, I’m sorry we were such lousy hosts, but you know how these things are. Wished I could have chatted more but was so distracted. 1000 apologies!
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