Gwendolyn's Birthday Party - Home

This year, Gwendolyn's birthday, 21 April, falls on a Monday, so Mama decided to host her birthday on the previous Saturday, i.e. 19 April! As usual, Gong Gong and Por Por flew to Singapore to celebrate Lyn Lyn's birthday and Lyn Lyn has made a lot of effort in planning ahead. She had even drafted a guest list, which she was the only one who understand the special codes used! In addition, she has asked for a magician, a 2-tiered cake (1 layer for adults and 1 layer for kids) with a Dora theme and contents to be placed in her party bags! Wow...

Since Mama is still on maternity leave, she booked the magician referred by her colleague, ordered a cake from Pine Garden (which contains a layer with lychee martini for adults and a layer with triple chocolate for kids) and delivered the Dora figurines to the shop at Ang Mo Kio and purchased all party bag items from Bugis! Everything set for her party. Oh yeah, not forgetting to mention us going to Centrepoint's Party shop to buy all the Dora party stuff, including backdrop decoration, party plates, party napkins, party bags, etc!

On the day, Papa made an early morning trip to the function room downstairs to bring all the stuff prepared by Mama the night before...Subsequently, after Mama has bathed Geraldine, Mama went down to decorate the room with Gwendolyn, including the Dora backdrop, balloons, banners, table cloth, etc...by 11:30am, the caterer arrived and setup the food in the room...

Preparation time...Gong Gong preparing paper sticks for a candy floss machine that he's specially bought for Lyn Lyn for her birthday

At 12 noon, our first guest started to arrive...the magician came at 1pm and he waited for another half an hour before starting the magic show, followed by a puppet show and balloon sculpting for all the kids. Don't be surprised, even some of our adult guests were asking for sculpted balloons!

Lyn Lyn enjoyed so much that you can hear her constant laughing

Whilst the show was still ongoing, Mama quickly setup the cake for the cake-cutting ceremony...when Mama opened the box, everyone was impressed with it...it looked really appealing! Mama only provided the figurines to the cake shop and they designed the rests!

After the shows, the magician hosted the cake-cutting ceremony...it was so fast that Papa and Mama didn't have time to stand beside Lyn Lyn to take a picture and blow the candle! She even cut the cake all by herself after blowing out the candle...

The Cake

Lyn Lyn: I love the cake so much!

The cake-cutting ceremony was so fast that Mama has to stop everything for some photo-taking...Lyn Lyn didn't even have a chance to take picture with all of "her guests"!

Some snapshots taken during the party!

Same as all the previous birthday parties, Auntie Suzie helped to cut the cake and Lyn Lyn delivered them one by one to all her guests! You can tell that she really enjoyed her party and was so happy throughout!

After transferring all the items back at home, Lyn Lyn was too excited to take a nap, but decided to unwrap her presents! Without any surprises, there was no Dora-related birthday gift, as most of the aunties and uncles know that she almost own "all" the Dora items.

Before

After

What's her favourite presents?

NDS from Gong Gong (requested for pink)

Drum set from Auntie Carolyn and Uncle Thomas

Roller skates with helmut and knee guards from Ralston Gor Gor, Shannon Jie Jie, Brenda Jie Jie and Dillon Di Di...

Thanks for all the well wishes!

What's more, she was soooooo tired that she almost fell asleep in the car when we're on the way to IMM for dinner...everyone kept stimulating her during the car journey until we reached IMM and she has finished with her food...once we left IMM car park, she immediately fell asleep on the way home and couldn't wake up at all...what an enjoyable day!

Too tired...