Gwendolyn seemed to be over-exerted before her actual birthday, as she refused to sleep the night before...dragging passed 12 midnight and woke up unusually early in the morning around 6:30am, in much anticipation of her 3rd birthday party! She knew that it was a big thing and we were going to a chalet! But she wasn't sure what a chalet was...she kept asking : who's house is that?
We left home at around 10:30am, arriving at around 11:15am. After collecting the keys, we went straight to Chalet F, right next to the Changi Sailing Club! It was exciting and also disappointing, as the chalet was rather run-down, much worse than the one that I went to for my offsite meeting less than a month ago. Nevertheless, there were 4 big bedrooms and we switched on all the air-cons and fans within reach! In order to transform an ordinary chalet to a party venue, Mama brought many many balloons to decorate the place, with some birthday banners!
Everyone was mobilised in decorating the venueIt wasn't easy to decorate the place and blowing 80 balloons (even though with the help of a foot pump) and hanging them...Mama tied a number of smiley face balloons at the entrance just to make it more prominent for the guests!
Papa Mama thought quite a lot of the guests would have gotten lost along the way, in the end, it wasn't that bad and most managed to find their ways, with the exceptions to the commando group, where they were the ones who's gotten lost and arrived the latest (P.S. the commando camp is very near to the chalet and no one would have expected them to be lost)!
Despite the disappointment with the commando uncles (without naming who)...Lyn Lyn enjoyed playing with the kids on the open area of the chalet! Initially, she was elegantly wearing her Cinderella dress...however, when she noticed that the kids were playing with bubbles, she wanted to join in. In order not to dirty her pretty princess dress, she changed back into her t-shirts and shorts to join in the fun. From then onwards, she refused to give up the comfort for the girlie dress!
Whilst playing with the bubbles, so happen that one of the party bags contained a water gun and the kids started with a water gun fight...with more kids asking for water gun, Mama had 3 on hand. Uncle Willis was the first to take revenge on the kids, followed by Lyn Lyn, wanting to follow the older kids!
What's in her hand? Water gun! This was her first exposure to the "weapon"!Our kind-hearted Lyn Lyn was so concerned when she accidentally wet Papa's t-shirt! She kept saying: I want Papa to be dry...worrying that Papa has no dry clothings to wear and being uncomfortable!
After playing for around 2 hours, we had the cake-cutting ceremony at 3:15pm. Even though the commando groups were not here yet, we proceeded to the ceremony as some guests have to leave.
The cake, specially chosen by Lyn Lyn!
The Happy Family!Actually, the cake was too big (3kg) and we only ate the bottom part of it. We actually kept the top portion for a second round of cake cutting, as there were still guests who haven't arrived yet!
After the cake cutting, quite a lot of the aunties and uncles left, with new ones arriving...the remaining ones, e.g. Lyn Lyn, Joel, Summer continued round 2 of the party...watching Dora vcds again, from Uncle Don's portable dvd player!
Also, if you notice how small the "parking" area was at the entrance to the chalet, you would have expected our guests parking over at the Sailing Club's chalet and got complained...with the help of our professional valet racers: i.e. Uncle Victor, he managed to re-arrange the remaining cars and fit them all nicely within the chalet "parking" area!
Remember the once broken aeroplane that Mama bought for Lyn Lyn to play at the West Coast Park? It's been fixed and Mama brought it along to play at the lawn too! At least, it's still in good condition and can fly! Gu Cheung was trying to play with Lyn Lyn, but Lyn Lyn kept trying to "climb" up the slope in slippers...
Not sure why they all wanted to be challenged by walking up slope?
Around evening time, when it wasn't so hot, Auntie Lena brought the kids down to the beach, which was just down the staircase. None of us brought any sand toys and Auntie Lena just made use of the disposable bowls and cups for the kids to play with!
The beach isn't as nice as presented in the photo!
REVENGE TIME...why? Remember last September, during Summer's birthday, Lyn Lyn blew out her candles and Summer was shocked...this time, Uncle Don and Auntie Lena purposely bought the Magic candles, so that the two kids can keep blowing and blowing until they run out of their breaths! Both were amazed and loved that...she kept blowing and blowing and still asked to blow some more. But as they noticed that the candles kept re-lighting themselves, both blew even harder and in the end, spat at the candles! Poor Cinderella...she was being spat at and later...Summer deformed her face by poking and eating the cream! What violent kids!
After the formal party...Lyn Lyn and Summer kept playing all night, running around the chalet, riding the bike in and out of the rooms, screaming in the chalet...in the end, Lyn Lyn had a very coarse voice and had to rest on Monday as well!
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