Letter to my 3-year-old

Dearest Darling Sara,

You have been such a blessing and joy in our lives. I really thank God that He has given you to us and we pray that as you grow, He grants us wisdom in being your earthly parents.

In many ways, since you were born, you have always been special to us. Docs have commented how strong-willed you were since you were 6 mo and I really thank God that He has seen us through these 3 years to bring you up well.

As much as we tried our very best to do be our best as parents, we hope one day as you grow older, you will understand why Mummy disciplines you in a certain way. So that you won't be a spoilt brat. And because Mummy wants you to be an independant child.

You have grown and matured so much in the recent months. Even that's what Aunty Shirley observed. :)
You sometimes make us feel like smacking you but at the same time, you can be so adorable, the most well-mannered kid I can ask for.

I pray that as you grow, you will grow in love, peace, joy and faith and that you will grow to be a Godly woman of God.

I love you mummy's darling girl. :)

Into the TWOs

We had a small-do for Sara yesterday, her real birthdate is today, 23-Apr-2012. It was a super last minute thing and we only confirmed and decided on the day I was supposed to fly out to Japan. (Which was 2 Mondays ago). I wanted to have a small one among friends and also of course, kids! Sara needs friends! And sadly, she doesn't have real friends at her age... Hehehe. The ones at kindy she's not that close.. but I hope she will learn to have friends there.

So, invites were sent out hurriedly before I left, and also follow up was done by hubby or when I was in Japan, FB-ing everyone. :P We just decided to invite whoever that is in Melaka. And only my aunt's family because she takes care of Sara.

All in all, I think it was pretty much ok, just that it was a bit kelam-kabut because guests didn't come all at the same time, they came staggeredly and we had a time-frame to end by 1.5 to 2hrs time. Overall, I think I was quite happy with the services provided by McDonald's as they were trying to be accustomed to the needs of our guests. And the lady actually handled the kids activities very well! If I have the time next time and when Sara is older, I would probably organise something like that at home. :) I love art and crafts too!

So here are some of the highlights of the day. If you are guest at Sara's party and you have any comments and feedbacks, kindly leave a comment at the end of this post or email me to rachellmc@rocketmail.com.

 The birthday cake. Almond coffee from Yeast bakery. Very nice when it's frozen! A very simple-do compared to Sara's 1st birthday cake. :P

 The birthday gal, happy with her balloons.

 Guests at the party.

 1, 2, 3, throw!

 Cuttting the cake!

Sara says she blew TWO candles yesterday. :)

Yay!

Overall, this little-do cost just a fraction of what we spent last year. And it's not the $$, but we just wanted the fellowship and the kids to have fun. I hoped you all enjoy yourselves! (maybe not you, but your kids!).

Updates!

It's been a while since I last blogged. Too busy with work and also things have been happening.

It started off with Hubby's prolonged flu, and then Sara started showing her reallll tantrums. That took the energy out of me. Phew.

Anyway, things are better at home now, and I planned a little suprise birthday dinner for hubby. He was shocked, of course as he didn't expect his bestie to be down from KL, and our Spore friends to be around too. All in all, I just love the cake the most. :P

And then, we had lunches and dinner with Liza, and dinner with Pastor J at a Korean restaurant! I really love Korean and was looking for a good one in Melaka, and we sort of found it! Yums! The kimchi soup in the hot pot was a real treat. Thanks, Pastor for the dinner and also the recommendation. :)



Sara's little FIRST birthday

Blessed birthday, lil one!

2-9 th birthday!

It was a lazy Saturday morning...Slept really late coz I was tossing and turning the whole night. Not sure if it was because of the "yin yong" I took during dinner at Kim Gary's with my ex-colleagues. Sign of old age? OH NO! Anyway, had brunch at this cafe called Cafe Hacienda at Dempsey Hill. Hubby checked online for the reviews and it was supposed to be good. I was tempted to tell him to go back to PS Cafe. But when we passed by.. my, it was rather packed! So many ang-mos.

Peace!

My first birthday with my daughter! :)

Hubby!

Hubby's egg royale..

The famous egg benedict

In the evening, hubby brought me to this place. I wanted to ask him how did he know about this place. But well, he was searching the menu and all these online, so I thought maybe he found this place under the recommendation of some reviews. But when we reached the place, I saw Sophia's car!!!! Hahaha.. So I was 3/4 surprised. And.. I had balloons!!! Overall, a very nice and cosy place, and also a hearty meal! Hehehe.

Surprise dinner at Spruce restaurant!

The peeps who made my birthday a very memorable one. :) Thanks all!

p/s: More pics uploaded on my FB :)

My Turn!

It's my turn! :) More on this later.. :)

11.10.10

It was my darling hubby's birthday yesterday. The guys wanted to have a mini surprise for him. Andry called for the pizza to be sent straight to my place. Too bad - the pizza came earlier than any of them. And he came with 2 large pizzas. So I was scratching my head, what to tell hubs about the 2 large pizzas. Finally, I just told him it's more worth it to get the large ones instead of the regular ones. He said I am not a pizza person why I ordered so big. Hahaha. The guys came in with the birthday cake below.

From Awfully Chocolate. Yummers!

Thanks, Andry, Frank, Kenny for taking the time to chill out with Jason on his birthday. Hehe.
Last but not least, Blessed birthday, darling! Hope you will have many more to come.

Incidentally, 11.10 is also our 4th ROM anniversary. Not planned, but because we wanted it to be exactly one month from our actually ceremony. :) Muacks! xoxoxo

Taaa-Daaa!

He came home.. with a bunch of roses and a prezzie for me!!! :)

What was written on the wrappers... Sweet rite???

Thank you darling!!!! It was a real surprise! :) :) :) :)

Blessed birthday, mum & dad!

Blessed birthday, mum & dad!

Lots of love... xoxoxoxo...

Surprised

Thanks to Abs, Soph, Jane & Frank for the b'day prezzie!

2 more to the big 3-0.

This is what I got for my b'day from hubby this year.. pretty, huh? Love the color of the roses and how it blends it well with the lilies.. my two fave flowers..

I still remember how each year hubby gets me flowers on my b'days (I think never failed once!). For the first 2 years, I remembered he was away due to biz trip, and he actually pre-ordered them and my brother was the delivery boy! Heheh.. At that time, I think he was in Germany.. lovely huge lilies!

Thanks, babe, this really brightens up my day...Appreciate it lots. :)