Cheeky Lucas turns 4!

Cheeky Lucas turns 4. Somehow after going through all the photos I took, this photo just kept my smiling. It looked like Ethan, the boy on the left who photobombed, was going "Orh, Lucas have a girlfriend".

Okay back to the Lucas 4th birthday. Its seems to be the routine where we will have a bigger cake for their class celebration, complete with goodies bag and all, and a smaller close family celebration on the actual day.

Lucas seems extremely shy when the birthday song was sang.


Photos from the school celebration.

Happy faces and goodie bags give away.

We had the small family celebration at the function room of our new place. Lucas finally decided to have Bumblebee as his cake after repeated changes over the two weeks leading to his birthday.

Group shots and more happy faces.

Happy 4th Birthday Cheeky Lucas!

Xavier turns 5!

Wow, another year zooms by and Xavier is 5! Although most of the time I wished the boys grew up quickly, it's milestones like birthdays that you just wish they stay this young.

This year Xavier chose the TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle) theme. COWABUNGA!!

Polar Puffs and Cakes had the license for the TMNT cake designs so we got the cakes from them. I also found some cool party masks and goodies bag from MtradeNoveltyStore.com. We did his celebration in school on the Friday before his birthday. Xavier was so excited about his birthday that he started announcing his party the week before. We dressed him up in the TMNT tee I bought for him from San Francisco.

Lucas came over from his class to join the party. I love the shot where both boys blew the candles together.

His class look so cute with his classmates wearing the TNMT masks. Lucas came over from his class to join the party.

He had a mini party at our place with his cousins. My sis-in-law made alphabets with jelly.

Happy Birthday Xavier! We love you!

Lucas is 2!!

Lucas turns two! What a journey it has been, and we are only just began...

We were in two minds whether to celebrate his birthday with our family as Xavier had HFMD (again? yeah I know. It's like an annual thingy for Xavier) the week before. Thankfully he recovered in time and Lucas didn't show symptoms of it. We celebrated his birthday with our families 2 days earlier on a Saturday.

That morning, Xavier made a birthday cake for Lucas out of Duplo blocks, complete with zoo animals and the zookeeper on it. That was really sweet of him.

He loves Lucas, most of the time.

Afternoon was the celebration with my parents and my in-laws. Plenty of food of course.

Lucas has always been a mummy's boy since birth, sticking to Lilian like a koala bear.

Time to bring out the real birthday cake. Nothing fancy, just a simple cake from Bengawan Solo. But any birthday cakes will excite the kids.

Let's clap and sing the birthday song. Drama by Xavier over blowing of candles.

Family shots.

We had a small cake and birthday song singing on Lucas actual day.

Happy Birthday Lucas! Hope you let us brush your teeth without making it a wrestling match every day.

Xavier's 4th Birthday Celebration

Someone told me before that time flies and children grows up very fast. You only realise how fast when you celebrate their birthday. How true. Xavier is FOUR already!

This year his birthday is pretty close to Chinese New Year so we kept it even smaller, splitting it into 3 celebrations. Cake selection was becoming challenging as he would choose a different cake every time we asked him. So with 3 celebration, he get 3 different cakes. Win-win situation. :-)

The first one was at my brother-in-law's place. Lightning McQueen cake, zoom zoom. See how excited he is, beaming from ear to ear.

His cousins were equally excited. Sing song, cut cake time!

Group photos time. Say Lightning McQueen!

Next was the celebration in his school. He wanted another Lightning McQueen cake but we manage to sway him to a Mickey and Friends cake as it seems to resemble his happy class. So there you have the cake, the class and the birthday boy.

He likes bossing around in his class, asking his class if they liked his Mickey and Friend's cake and that all have to sing birthday song to him later. Candles blowing time!

Xavier can't help breaking into the hottest current dance craze, Gangnam Style, with singing from Lucas. Happy faces and family photo time!

The last celebration was a belated one with my parents during the Reunion lunch on Chinese New Year eve lunch. As its gonna be a feast, we restricted Xavier's cake to a small one, more for him to blow his candle then eat the cake. He chose Power Ranger cake this time.

Group photos time. Lucas is happy to give his brother a birthday hug.

Happy 4th Birthday Xavier!

Lucas turns ONE!

Lucas turns the big ONE today. As usual, we opt for the low-key celebration with immediate family.

Lilian ordered mini buffet from Yum Cha Express. The friendly uncle helped us set up our table. Excellent service. And the food is pretty good as well.

Some family shots and happy shots.

Getting ready for the cake and candle blowing. We chose baby Bugs Bunny as Lucas was born in the year of the rabbit. Xavier seems more excited for his brother.

And everybody sing...


We have a tradition where we would lay items for the one year old to pick and what did Lucas pick first? $Money$. Xavier picked that first too when he was one.

Wishing Lucas grow up healthy and wealthy. Happy Birthday Lucas.

Xavier's 3rd Birthday Celebration - 2

Following our mini celebration for Xavier's birthday at home, we present part 2 of his celebration.

Today is Xavier's actual day and this year we decided to let him celebrate in his school with his friends as well. But before that, we took him to the zoo.

Xavier pointing to us where he wants to visit first.

He was very excited about the trip to the zoo. Maybe because we haven't bring him there as often as we wish to. And since he was his birthday, he gets to ride on the pony.

He also had fun at the waterplay area but I lost those photos and videos unfortunately.

When we reached his class, they were all eager and ready to celebrate his birthday. And he happily exclaims he is three years old.

The look on his face was pure joy. Maybe we should do this more often.

Here's some happy shots of his classmates.

Happy birthday again Xavier. Next year Lucas would be be to join in the celebration.

Xavier 3rd Birthday Celebration - 1

We celebrated Xavier's birthday earlier on 4th February as it was a Saturday. As per previous birthdays, we wanted to keep it small so only immediate families present.

This year he gets to choose his own birthday cake and he was very excited about having a "Lightning McQueen" cake. Even since the day we ordered the cake from Bengawan Solo till the very day of the celebration, he would keep reminding us of his cake.

And this year, he learnt his pose and would strike it when you say "帅".

Photo time with families.

This year we got him an Elephant backpack from SkipHop and a Lightning McQueen remote control car. We thought the zoo backpack series from SkipHop were very cute and we thought he might like the Penguin but Xavier choose Elephant instead.

Happy Birthday Xavier. Daddy and Mummy loves you.

Click to see what happens on his actual birthday.

p.s.: Sorry Daddy's PC run into some issues and I lost 1/3 of the photos and all the videos. So although you do not see us in any photos, we were definitely present.

Thomas's Birthday Party @ The Polliwogs

Xavier was invited to his classmate Thomas's Birthday @ The Polliwogs. He's been very excited about going to birthdays and going to Polliwogs, so you can say he was doubly excited this time. But probably because we were late (having to vote in the morning), Xavier took a very long time to warm up, to the surprise of even Lilian and myself.

But it's not his birthday and as long as the birthday boy and all the other kids are having fun, that's all it matters. There were party coordinators doing activities with the kids and they even got Thomas's daddy and Gabriel to join in the fun (as super heroes?). There was also a balloon entertainer chunning out very well sculpted balloon characters. I'm impressed by the red pokka dots octopus, yellow bus, Barney, Elmo and Cookie Monster that he made, among others.

Cake cutting time and it was Thomas favourite Cars character Lightning McQueen. And boy was it a big cake and kids were trying to get their hands on it. I know Xavier was as I had to fend him off as he exclaimed excitedly "Car! Car! Car!".

After the kids got their tummy filled, they were running around with a balloon sculpture each, filling up the room with laughter. What a fun filled day!

Xavier brought his Cooke Monster balloon home to join his collection of other cookie monsters.

Xavier's 2nd Birthday - Inside Story

Even heard of Murphy's law where "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"? Well we had a small taste of it on Xavier's 2nd Birthday, the "eventful" day.

I collected the balloons for the party the day before. And boy was I glad I took some photos of Xavier playing with it. He was in cloud nine when he saw the Jumbo Cookie Monster that he brought Cookie Monster for a tour of our home.

Sadly, Cookie Monster decided not to join the party in next morning. He exploded with a hole on the neck area (probably due to change in temperature in the morning). Sms Lyna from Babyterror for a replacement but was told that was their last Jumbo Cookie Monster. So settled for Jumbo Elmo and a much smaller hand-held Cookie Monster. I told Xavier Cookie Monster fell down so Daddy have to invite Elmo.

But I still want to find a Jumbo Cookie Monster for the party. Afterall, Cookie Monster is the main theme. Then I remembered on Auntie Yochana's blog there is the contact for the balloon and party shop at Parkway level 2. Sms Richard from Partywell and he confirmed he has a brand new Jumbo Cookie Monster.

So rushed in the morning to pick up the Elmo from Lyna, buy the Cookie Monster from Parkway, pick up my brother, pick up the cake from Auntie Yochana and head back home. To my utter misbelief when I open the boot, the brand new Jumbo Cookie Monster has also exploded along the journey, and again its the neck area that gave way.

Cookie Monster Twin.

So Xavier, if you are wondering why you have a Cookie Monster birthday with Elmo, now you know. Happy Birthday my boy!

Happy 2nd Birthday Xavier!

Xavier was all excited about celebrating his 2nd birthday. He would grin from cheek to cheek at the mere mention of birthday cake, clapping his hands trying to sing "Happy Birthday" and ending with blowing the invisible candle and then turning to us and ask "Cut cake?"

And so we celebrated his 2nd birthday today in a day filled with events (more on that later).We invited just the immediate family members for a cosy celebration but the "mini" buffet for 10 pax from Mum's Kitchen was enough to feed 20! So we called Gabriel and his family over for the celebration.

As it was the Chinese New Year (CNY) period, the buffet was a CNY set. Lilian replaced the Yu Sheng with Kweh Pie Ti as my mum will be preparing a plate of home-made Yu Sheng to toss. Anyway more food is a happy problem.

When everybody's stomachs are filled, its the moment Xavier's been waiting for, to cut cake. I made the mistake of opening the cake box in front of the kids as it became chaotic with the kids (especially Xavier) all wanting to grab the Sesame Street characters. So a tip for parents, if you want to take nice photos of the cake (in peace), do it in the kitchen before presenting the cake to your kid. We were pleased with how pretty the cake was decorated. Thanks Aunty Yochana.

I totally forgot to get someone to shoot a video when we sang Xavier the birthday song. So happy Gareth took the following video with Winney's iPhone.

Xavier definitely enjoys his 2nd birthday more than his 1st as he knows what's happening around him. He is able to clap and sing along, cut the cake and pose for "cheeky" smile photos. More photos available at my Flickr.