Pre Birthday Celebration

We are back again Phoebe ahhahaha

We celebrated Declan’s birthday 2 days earlier on 26 June 05 as it happened to fall on a Sunday. It’s easier to gather the family on a weekend than a weekday thus we decided to do it 2 days earlier. Actually, it wasn’t much of a celebration. We didn’t really do anything special for him and it wasn’t a big hoo ha thing. We simply collected our immediate family together and sing a birthday song for him, followed by us (the parents) helping him to blow out the candle and cut the cake.

I ordered a 1kg Tasmania monster mango cake for him. I actually preferred the baby Mickey Mouse cake, but the minimum size of that cake had to be 2kg. We only gathered about 10 relatives so we won’t be able to swallow a 2kg cake, thus the decision to go with the not so nice Tasmania cake. The worst thing was that the cake shop actually spelt Declan’s name wrongly!!!! Arghhhh!! They misspelled it as Dellan…. What a way to mark the most important milestone of my little one’s life…..

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Actually I do not have any intention to celebrate for him as I find that it doesn’t make much sense… It’s the little one’s birthday but they won’t get to enjoy the celebration when we throw a party for him when he is just a year old. He doesn’t know the meaning of birthday, he doesn’t know how to blow the candle, he doesn’t know how to cut the cake and he doesn’t even know what’s going on right??!! All he knows is that one big bunch of people are gathering near him and singing loudly and making him does funny things and everyone is expecting him to smile and while all the adults seem to be enjoying everything, he is being passed around from guest to guest making him all tired and fussy. That’s my personal opinion though.

People around us had been asking about how we are going to celebrate for him. So, in order not to disappoint our immediate family, we decided to at least buy him a cake and did the birthday song thingy for him.

I will throw a proper birthday party for him when he turns 5 years old, when he will have his own friends to share his joys with and that is the age when he’ll probably know the real meaning of birthday and he’ll be old enough to play host.

It seem like Declan wasn’t in a good mood that day. He was fussing the whole time and he wasn’t very cooperative during the photo taking session. I guessed it must be due to the fact that he was hungry and not being fed on time.

Here come the photos of that day, take note of Declan’s grouchy face hahahhaha


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That's Declan with Kiat's sister's family

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Little Dec is jealous that his grandma is holding Ethylyn and not him hahaha

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I just love this pic!! Ain't Ethylyn sooo cute??? Molest Declan and got caught red handed!

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We are singing birthday song for him and he's holding on very tightly to his Gardenia Raisin bread. He just refuse to let it go.

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Candle blowing time!

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13 comments:

Anonymous said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE DECLAN!!!!!

today should be the correct day right??? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

all the ebst!!

cheerio,
yl.

blurblur said...

Happy Birthday Declan!!

Kuai Gao Zhang Da! :) :)

Phoebe said...

Hello! Happy Birthday Declan! *hugs* I am sure your Ivy & Kiat( hope i didn't get it wrong ) are happier than you today :P hee hee

Dec look so cute in the pic where your BIL is carrying him. He seems to be saying " Wey wey wey... can cut the cake already?" :P

Anonymous said...

Been lurking around :) Happy first birthday to Declan. I don't like to throw elaborated parties too. You are right that kids this age don't know what celebrations are. Sensible mommy :)

Irene said...
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Irene said...

Declan,
Happy Birthday! You are too cute! I just want to pinch/kiss your cheeks ;)

Vyvy said...

Thanks folks for all the well wishing!

yl, you are right today is the day

Blur, grow tall enough dun grow fat hahah i scared.

Phoebe, you'be got good memory, you got my hubby's name right ahhaha and indeed we are really happier than him looking at his face kekekek

Hello mel! Thank you! and continue to lurk around kekekek

Irene, Hailey's got equally alluring cheeks!!!

MomsyWorld said...

hope declan likes the gift

Vyvy said...

Thanks Fannie, He likes it alot! he loves the music.

huileng said...

Happy belated birthday!

Ivy, I think you slim down a lot a lot, yah?

Vyvy said...

Thanks Huileng and yeah u are right, i did slim down alot alot hahaha.

I am now only 42kg, before i gave birth I was 43kg.

I ate alot you know, but don't know what happen to all the food, probably i've got straight intestines, what goes in comes right out.

Anonymous said...

well... your baby will only have his/her First birthday ONCE... the rest of the birthdays are just another birthday... just like you are so happy to see his/her First tooth coming out...
Its a big milestone for him/her... so why not celebrate it ??

Vyvy said...

hmmm Anonymous, every birthday is also once. You only have a second birthday once, third birtday once so on and so forth.

But anyway, like I say, to celebrate or not is a personal opinion and decision. I prefer to throw a party for the little one when he knows how to enjoy it to make it more meaningful and so that he'll get to enjoy it :)

Thanks Stacey!

Celine, the sotong dad didn't check when he went to collect the cake, we only realise the mistake when we open the cake at home