Blogger meetup @ Marmalade Cafe BVII

2 weeks ago, YES..it was a longggggg overdue post :p I meet up with beautiful Annie with her 2 handsome boys! at Marmalade Cafe. Annie is one of my many blogger friends whom I've been chatting with for as long as I could remember but we NEVER MET before. Blame it on me, my excuses was always "going pok thor hence no time", "getting married hence no time", "going honeymoon hence no time", "making baby hence no time"..aha! Finally, I made a point to set an appointment with her on a beautiful Deepavali morning to have breakfast :D My favourite meal of the day! Hubby drop us off at the cafe while he go look at pretty ladies somewhere waited somewhere while we have some "Ladies chat". I crossed my fingers and ordered my food hoping the little lady would not create a fuss without the daddy. Thank God she was ok until the final 10 minutes... Thank GOD daddy arrives to rescue me :D

I shall let the photos do all the talking...

Janice with her birthday presents from Fearles and Cruz..

The boys are teaching Janice how to flip her new book. Thanks Annie, she's still flipping the book while I watch like a hawk everyday because she has an evil intention to "TEAR" those pages if I leave her alone!

"Hey mom... are you SURE I can drink these???"

My breakfast.. Corn cakes donno what what... I don't remember the name :p. That happens when you're too excited meeting up with a friend and handling a toddler at the same time! hah!

I definitely had a great morning chatting with Annie and seeing her two handsome boys! Annie say I'm a very quiet lady wor.. really?! :p

I'm looking forward to meet up with the rest of the 'silent readers' out there..ahem ahem.. you know who you are :p SOON!

Once again, a big thank you to Annie for the book and puzzle. NEXT TIME don't spent so much ok???!!!??? Umph!

Janice 1st Birthday Bash (PART 2): Compilation from 6 mths - 12mths old

Janice 1st Birthday Bash (PART 1): The cake, the door gifts and the arrival of guest

THE CAKE

Baby Minnie themed 3 tier birthday cake for the little princess

I took leave on the eve of Janice's birthday to bake the cakes for the Minnie mouse theme party. Yiyi came over to my place that night and we started decorating. It took us 4 hours to complete the 2 tier decoration. The white cake with polka dots is made of Styrofoam inside ;).  Surprisingly, the difficult part of assembling the cake wasn't the making of Minnie Mouse sugar figurine but to me, it was the covering of  rolled fondant on the cake. It took us forever to do it! At 3:30am on the 30th Oct 2010, our 1st fondant cake was finally ready. *sweat*


                                                           THE DOOR GIFTS

Photo taken by Zara's mama. I was too busy that day, I terforgot to take a pic of the cookies for remembrance.

As for the door gifts for the guest, I've ordered these beautiful Minnie themed cookies from Zara's mama. I love her work and the cookies tasted great.







Each cookies we individually wrapped!!

                                                        
                                                           
                                                          
                                                         THE PRE-CELEBRATION

She woke up to receive her  birthday presents from daddy and mommy!

The birthday girl woke up pretty early at 7 ish in the morning to greet the sleepy parents. She usually wakes up way past 8:30am on a normal day. Looks like she knew something was going to happen on that Saturday.She was so bubbly and happy the moment she woke. Daddy and mommy sang her the birthday song while we were still lazing on our bed and she was clapping her hands with excitement.


                                                                  DRESSING UP

After stuffing her with a power packed early lunch, it was time for the little princess to dress up for the party.Thank God she was cooperative that day with her new shoes. Usually, she'll find ways to remove them as soon as you put them on.

Janice's dressing up 30 minutes before party starts.

Her 1st pair of walking shoes. I love them more than her. She is not use to wearing shoes yet :0

                                                                THE PARTY

Everything went well according to my expectations. The Balloons from Balloon Buzz arrived on time to decorate the entire cafe. When we arrived, everything was in place according to plan. My princess was enjoying herself looking at all the colourful balloons floating around her!



Popo(grandma) showing Janice around the party venue.



Thanks to Balloon Buzz for delivering them on time and the balloon arrangement was simple and nice!

Grand aunt FL said "I can buy lottery already, Janice allowed me to carry her today" :D

The Sun, Chew & Chanclans reunited

It was a great opportunity for the family members to gather together on special occasions like these.

Something happened on the way to the cafe. Part of the cake was exposed to the sunlight in daddy's car, the back of the cake (lilac layer) was slighted melted. Thanks to the cafe boss for her help. She reassured me that she'll take care of the 'repairs'. SHE DID! I almost felt like giving her a big wet kiss.

Great grandpopo wishing the little party girl a blessed birthday!

Great Grand ah ma trying to let her hold the double blessings.

Grandma came to give the little sweety pie a gift while she looks on

Kong Kong trying to woo her :p

 

The birthday girl sitting among the party guest..

More photos to come....