mac party

not the cool apple but the golden arches that is the favourite of all kids. which kid doesn't like french fries? i can't resist them nice and hot either. :)

it's janine's 6th birthday party at ang mo kio avenue 10 but guess who couldn't make it? eric who literally lives a stone's throw away from the party venue. oh well, jeff is away on business too.

the birthday cake looks fabulous and gorgeous, right?

it's a dream come true for janine i suppose considering her current love of disney princesses. yes, janelle and janine are best friends who have long planned to visit disneyland together, way before john or johann even thought about it. :P

check out the fun the kids had here, adults included too.

see if you can find the picture showing joshua 'cleaning' the cake knife. haha...

shopping

spent an afternoon shopping for janelle's and jarad's birthday presents at takashimaya with tracy and eric. you can see our effort filled up whatever space that eric has in his car boot.

i think janelle and jarad will be thrilled to receive their presents from all of us. :)

party @ 183

another month, another birthday... we're celebrating cayden's 3rd birthday today. just a small gathering of friends and janet's & jason's family. since i'm still not working yet, i volunteered to take charge of the buying of the present.

in the end, i settled on a leap pad with 3 story books from toys 'r' us and a bob the builder lego duplo set from metro after shopping around. toys 'r' us has the best price for the leap pad and a buy 2 and get the 3rd book free for the leap pad books. while only metro and tangs have a 20% discount for lego sets.

when i arrived at punggol with siew leng, janet was out collecting the cake with jason and cayden. and the caterer had not arrived! so i sms-ed janet to complain 'i'm here liao... where's the food?!' :P hehe...

as with all kid's parties, there was a lot of screaming and running around. soon the playroom's floor was filled with toys as each of them brought out more toys to play. followed by the inevitable throwing of tantrums when some of them want to play with the same toy.

strangely, i didn't think they were overly noisy today... maybe my hearing is going off? or i'm conditioned by the upgrading construction noise at home?

the food by neo garden was quite good, i had 2 servings of it as well as 2 servings of the longan almond tofu cocktail dessert. jarad likes the dessert too! :P

next up was the birthday song singing and cake cutting, much-awaited by the kids. however, cayden doesn't seem to have warm up yet, looking a bit spaced out and detached.

i think the grandparents looked most happy.

somebody asked why so many photos of jarad? that's because he's still not running around with the rest yet! haha...

party @ mac

jerrell is turning 4 and i'm invited to his party at macdonald's at king albert park.

met up with the gang and the little ones. all were present except for diane who is mugging for her exams. i think the kids enjoyed themselves very much. i mean it's nearly impossible to find a child who doesn't like good old mac and french fries, right?

check out my photos here. somehow, the pictures weren't very good. i think the shutter speed weren't fast enough to capture the action resulting in blurry pictures..

anyway, it was a great opportunity for the adults to catch up with one another as we went for drinks and ice-cream at the daily scoop at sunset way after the party. i had a double scoop of mango magic and cha which is flavoured with earl grey. taste great!

then janet suggested having the famous claypot chicken rice at block 328 for dinner. and we waited more than 1 hour for the food but it was really good and satisfying.

yummy. :)