Nat's 1st Birthday Celebration...... LAST YEAR!

I just realized I didn't blog about Nat's first birthday. Gosh! Blame it on the moving that kept my mind so busy to write. :P...

So the next few entries will all be my girl's birthday celebrations (bear with me!). I need to be fair to both my girls. :)

Natalie is a total different girl from Eunice. She was an angel when she's a baby. She slept through the night when she was as young as 3.5mo! I remember I freaked out and picked her up to latch but she refused to drink, and cried out loudly until I put her back to her cot, and she continued sleeping. Even though she slept through the night, I still woke up once a while to check on her to make sure she's breathing. Well, can't blame me, Eunice woke up to direct latch until she's 14mo! In my mind, all babies need to take their late supper or early breakfast in the mid night or early morning! And the best thing is, she slept as early as 830pm all the way until 630am or 7am. What a blessing! :)

Besides, when it comes to her solid feeding, it's easy. She eats everything that I prepared. No fuss. No matter how bad it tastes. I remember giving her a bowl of porridge with blended spinach, and I thought maybe there's too much spinach and it tasted too "green", but she still finished it! It's so easy to feed her, unlike Eunice who could be a disaster when it comes to feeding. We were all prepared for all the sleepless nights and all the feeding nightmares when planning for 2nd baby but to our surprise, Natalie is such an easy baby. :)..

I started to look around a nice venue for her birthday party when her 1st birthday was approaching. EG is a very fussy man, and said that we need to have one as good as Eunice's, and with nicer food. After looking around, we decided to have it in Irrawaddy Fine Food. We looked at the menu, went and tried the food, and had a chat with the person in charge. EG was happy with the food and the cosy environment. So we decided to have it there.

This round, we couldn't afford the famous With Love for video like what we had for Eunice's first birthday, so we decided to engage our good friend Daniel Yap for nice photos! Having 2 kids really keep our hands full. I have no time to take out my camera at all as I need to mind two children. So I could only count on Daniel for the photos.

For the cake, all my usual cake bakers are either not baking anymore, or they went outstation. So I had to look for new one. After asking around, I decided to ask TweetHomeMade to bake me a simple fondant cake with lady bug design. I wanted to have a bumble bee theme birthday but the table cloth in Irrawaddy was red & white checked, so I decided to change to lady bug instead.

We kept the celebration easy and simple. Friends love the food. The place is a little small hence we kept the guest group small, we only invited like 6 families with kids, and we have the whole restaurant to ourselves. Staff in Irrawaddy Fine Food are exceptionally helpful and accommodating in decorating and arranging the place for us. And all our friends love the food. So, Nat turned one in a blink of eye - literally! I couldn't believe she's ONE so fast. And next, I'm going to blog about her 2nd birthday!

The cheeky looking super birthday girl

Creative shot by photographer

Pizza

Simple food label done by me :)

These sausages are surely a big hit!

Same decor on the high chair as Eunice

Food table

Kids admiring the food

My favorite shot! :)

Lady bug birthday cake

The lovely birthday cake

Another view of the food table

Gee..! I feel like such a lousy mom. Tell me I'm not! :)