After a whole month of hollering about Baby Maya's first birthday, it was accomplished!
After a whole month of planning, it was DONE! With dotty poxy flying colours!!!
I was quite proud of the party I hosted. Yeah...self-bragging... let me be ~~ lalalallalala!!!!!
Dear Hubby said I did a wonderful job and I went skipping in rainbows and cloud nine!
Everything was planned with love, executed with details, orientated to suit her (and our budget of course!) and her daily routine so that she won't be overwhelmed by the crowd of well-wishers.
First and foremost, I would like to take this chance to really thank ALL OF YOU WHO CAME (especially LeSista!) and showed your loves and blessings to our little angel turning one. Dear Hubby and I really really appreciate the time you had taken off to attend this party, even if it was just for a short while, and taking the extra effort and dress your little ones in polka dots too!!! So sporting laaa you all!! *twinkling eyes* Thank you~~~ We hope all of you had a dotty time there! If there were any kekurangans or some things that we overlooked at our party, we apologise sincerely ya... This is kinda my first time hosting party (all on my own, withOUT an event organiser!), even if it was a just moderately small party, we wholeheartedly hope that you all had a good time! And special gratitude for those who were not able to make it, but still send their love in forms of angpaos and pressies too... Really very heartwarming~~ Thank you!!! Kamsiah~~~
Enough feeling feeling all.... Read this post if you want emo emo stuff!
Paiseh to have kept many of you waiting for this post.... Many have been patiently waiting for the pictures of baby girl's birthday.... hahahhaha..... so..... here is it!
Baby Maya's Polka Dot First Birthday Party in gruesome details...
This is gonna be one loooong post.... with loads of pictures!!!
A family affair!!! In the past, whenever I looked at any mother-daughther wearing the same clothes, I went chuckling to myself... Hahahhaha... Seriously~ Never say never.. Never laugh at other people! HAHAHHAH! Now, it was ME who did the same thing... LOL~ LeSista got me that polka dot dress many many years ago, it was just chucked at the back of my closet and just last night I realised, it was freaking the same pattern as this black and white polka dot dress that I bought for baby from Hush Puppies! Same dot size, same colour! What a coincidence, as if it was meant to be!!! Thus, in a split instinct, I decided to wear the same as her. (!!!YES I DID!!!) And then I promised never to embarrass her again (maybe) by NOT wearing same baju as her again (maybe). Hahahhaa~~~
Our birthday girl in her black & white polka dot dress~~ So sweet and cute my darling right.....wearing her signature pout!!! and learning to split?!!? Her red and orange hair clips were actually also polka dots (!!! YES!!!) but they are too small and this subject was too active for me to get a clear good picture!!
Selfie time! I matched my black & white polka dot dress with faux pearl stud earrings, a dangling dreamy pearl necklace and pearly bracelet (gotten from LeSista!). If you squint, perhaps you can spot my super colourful polka dot (!!!YES!!!) nail art on top of my white manicure! Yes, purposely for this occasion~~~ lallalala...... I had on a bright orange hairband with blue polka dot (!!!YES!!!) also...
Thank you LeSista for coming and joining us!!! You might not know but your presence here made me feel especially warm and fuzzy inside!!! I love having you here, I love hanging out and talking nonsense with you... I super love our sisterly time! Thank you for loving my baby so much and Baby Maya also loves her yiyi very much!!!
And again, with such a coincidence, LeSista's polka dot top was black with white dots!
Baby girl de birthday shoes!!! Finally we found it~~ Lovely pristine soft white ballerina shoes to match her dress (thanks to YeYe and Gua Ma!!). The beautiful gold anklet with dangling bells was her birthday pressie from Yiyi! Thank you~ Upon reaching the party, which was held at Flinders Station, an Australian pizza parlour, Baby hijacked mummy's orange hairband... Well, it did looked better on her! :)))
As you all already knew, the theme of our birthday bash --> polka dot (!!!YES!!!). Many of you wondered why. See her baby picture on the left? That was my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE PAJAMAS OF HERS!!! Her most worn baju when she was a newborn. That was exactly why... The polka dot idea stemmed from her green polka dot pants and everything else in the party was also based on this PJ of hers. And the tiger soft toy (which was mine originally) is her most favourite can't-sleep-without soft toy in the whole wide world. So, you shall come to realise (in the pictures below) that I have incorporated these into my party-planning-details.... :DDD
*super excited mode to share*
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Ta-Daaaaaah!!!!!!
A special area dedicated for her.... with jumbo Happy 1st Birthday banner hanging over it... :DDD
Don't worry, I'll go through one-by-one haha....
This 8-inch Oreo cookie cream birthday cake was specially custom-made, with love, for Baby Maya.
Note the greenish blue black polka dot colour (following her PJ pants) of the cake and the flower pattern (following her white top PJ details) in the front of the cake. Super love love love~~~
And the cutest little mini tiger icing sitting on the cake... I also love the pink MAYA KANG wordings on the cake~~ Such sweet details.... A great job done by the baker!
See the number ONE candle --> also polka dot (!!!YES!!!), which I found online! *proud face*
Surrounding the beautiful ONEderful cake were ten cutest polka dot (!!!YES!!!) multi pastel-coloured little cupcakes! They were a mixture of vanilla strawberry, vanilla blueberry, vanilla roselle, vanilla cookie & cream, lemon lime, rich chocolate cupcakes etc...
Specially 'imported' from Singapore, from LeSista for us, were the greenish blue and yellow polka dot (!!!YES!!!) mini Nutella cupcakes. Pure heavenly and were my favourite ever cupcakes!!!
I can pop those into my mouth, 5 biji consecutively!!! True story.
Thank you for getting us those cupcakes and I am grateful for the trouble you went through (I know you got lost hahaha!), for Baby Maya, for me, for us. And those rich chocolate rice balls were sheer indulgence and simply downright sinful. Hahaha. Love the colour sprinkles on top of the balls.
You must have been wondering what was the bear doing there, what was it all about...
Well, you can read from the dainty introductory card HANDmade specially by yours truly! Haha.
It (not named yet, waiting for Baby Maya to name it herself one day) is actually a birthday gift from us, to her. It is a keepsake teddy bear, handmade and sewn from her outgrown baby clothes, custom made in the UK. If you scrutinize properly, you would notice that my favourite PJ of hers was embedded onto the bear, along with many other pieces of her baby clothes (baby gloves, belly binder, rompers, other PJs and white ribbon top) ... *love love love*
Seeing this bear never fails to instantly reminds me of her newborn period, which I treasure to the deepest of my heart, and thus, it serves as the best token of remembrance of our journey together. Caressing the fabrics and the prints on the bear, I know I've chosen the best memento gift.
*mummy loves you very much*
I purposely chose this pink-purple ladybug polka dot (!!!YES!!!) party set, simply to match the theme of the party, even though I knew that the restaurant would provide us the utensils (hah!). Just for show nia. They were totally redundant hahahaha~~
Also I brought along her customised photo canvas and photo frames to decorate the place. Haha.
Happy 1st Birthday, darling girl!
Our guests arriving and digging into the food...
Love those colourful polka dot (!!!YES!!!) helium-filled balloons strewn around the place, making it more festive than ever! The whole upstairs of the pizza place was ours, very kind of the owner!
Baby girl wearing a special Birthday Girl party hat~~~
(got a bargain online *teeheehee*)
And the party went on.....
I can't believe we took so many pictures that day! More than 400!!! Credits to LeSista as the free photographer of the day~~ Thank you for helping me capture those defining moments!!!
I'll try to fit everything in collages so to save time (and megabytes LOL!).
Oh boy, I hope I didn't missed anybody out!
Baby Maya said:
*thank you cousins Lewis and Joie, Faith jiejie for joining me*
*thank you all aunties, uncles also for taking the time off to come wish me and see me and sing song with me*
*thank you Baby Cara and Brandon gorgor for coming*
*thank you all daddy mummy de friends for the pressies and angpaos*
*thank you Eugene for coming and inviting me to your party*
*Uncle Goh & Auntie Zy, we finally met!*
*hahahhaa*
Thank you for coming! You guys are amazing...
Thank you LeSista, who very kindly helped me snapped so many pictures that day and only few of her own...
WE LOVE YOU...
Menu of the day:
Creamy mushroom soup
Garden salad with dressings
Roasted potatoes
Chicken wings with glazed honey
Crispy calamari rings
Pizzas (definitely!): Hawaiian chicken, Hawaiian tuna, pepperoni chicken etc..
Chicken bolognese spaghetti
Black pepper chicken
Mutton and potato (don't know what dish)
I love love love the pizzas and mushroom soup!
But the rest of the dishes were so-so, to be honest....
Lighting up the cute polka dot (!!!YES!!!) candle and getting ready for birthday song singing!!!
*baby stop digging your nose!*
Dear Hubby excitedly asked them to play a very very countrylike birthday song *sweat*
Hahaha......!!!
To many many more years to come!!!
*milk bottle cheerings*
I super LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture taken by my colleague's big ass camera!
*hijacked this picture from his FB*
*have to admit, full professional photographer skill laaaa*
*thank you for helping to seize this precious moment for us!*
Cake cutting ceremony... Very poorly done by mua... Haha.. Abit keganasan lololol~~~
Yay!!! More pressies ya!!!
*mummy more excited lebih lebih*
Wahhhhh.. my lucky baby so many presents and blessings!!!
She had just a lovely time going through the pressies and tearing them up!
*so fun to watch her so gleeful*
See the polka dot (!!!YES!!!) love-shaped stickers next to the handwritten Thank You Note? *proud*
Party favours wrapped with love and meticulously into a candy shape, also by me!
Hope everybody had a sweet sweet time!!!
THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING!
HOPE YOU HAD A DOTILICIOUS TIME!!!
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