Yesterday was Kirsten’s first birthday bash and as first birthday bashes go, this went splendidly. The fact that we only sent out invites 3 days prior notwithstanding, we had all the ingredients necessary for a party – food, family, friends and cake. And also balloons, lots and lots of balloons. (thanks Kev and Anne!)
Baby girl wasn’t entirely sure what the commotion was all about, like “why are all these people making me wear stupid prickly hats, it’s making my ears itch eww eww eww.”
She’s in a no-headgear phase now and no amount of cajoling and bribery will make her put anything on her head. I try to make her wear these pretty headbands with giant flowers to draw attention away from her noticeably sparse hair and she yanks them off with a flourish every single time. The noggin is sacred, y’all.
And of course, miniature parties are never complete without miniature-sized friends, because it would just be a bunch of old fogeys rocking out to pink and purple balloons, which is just kind of creepy.
Tru was down with another bout of the flu, which left him pretty stoned the whole time but he was a real trooper, shuffling around distributing his precious collection of sesame street friends. Towards the end, he was all maxed out and he started telling everyone to go home like “Bye everyone, thank you for coming, see you soon, Truett very tired.” It was both very impressive and mortifying at the same time.
At first we thought of ordering one of those 3D cakes with castles and princess figurines but we figured that we will be having plenty of those soon enough, when the kids are old enough to want one. And since we have a weakness for this awesome home-baked chocolate-banana cake, we went and ordered a 2kg version, hoping that we would have leftovers for breakfast today but no, it was totally wiped out within minutes.
You know I don’t usually plug a lot of stuff here but this cake, you seriously want to try. Go check it out, she does the most wicked cakes ever, with the perfect combination of rich, chocolatey goodness without being an overkill. Sometimes, I plan events just to have an excuse to have more cake. And I’m not even kidding.
Best part was, both kids were so exhausted they went home and collapsed into bed at 7.30. Now that’s what I call a successful party.
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Happy Birthday Kirsten! She really looks like you in the 3rd pic :)
@Tin, yay 1 point for momma! Everyone has been saying that she looks like daddy way more than me.
Although the picture is all nicely taken, how come no family picture?
Wow, love the cake; it looks really yummy!
Once again, Happy Birthday to Kristen!
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@sunflower, there were some family pics actually but we were all too busy looking at the cake instead of the camera.
I’ve been reading for a while and this is my first comment (: Happy birthday Kirsten! She’s so pretty! Also, the guy in grey holding truett’s kinda hot (: haha!
@Michelle, LOL, the hawt guy is Kev, our decor specialist for the event, but unfortunately, he is also very married to an equally hawt babe who will soon be sending you hate mail.
Also, I am stating for the record that the guy in black is WAYYYY hotter.
@Daphne, I hope that was a genuine mistake cos the dude in black is Jason, not me.
It’s ok honey. I know your thing with colours.
@Kelvin, except that it is totally a blackish kind of blue, which falls in the black category.
What a fabulous 1st party for Kristen! Happy Birthday Kristen!
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@Rachel, Thanks!
-so bad, u call your litle darlings miniature :p
– your baby looks like the prom-queen, she is the ONE !
– thks for the choc-banana recommendation, will give it a try :)
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@andy, Yes. You have to try it to believe it. I believe its better than even the highly-rated Sweet Secrets one.
Your little girl is s precious! She really looks like you in the 5th picture. =)
@Bing, Hahah. I may post some baby pics of myself in the future. The resemblance is..remarkable.
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@lynn, Thanks lynn! You are so kind. Do you have a blog too? Cause you have a cute-looking gravatar but I don’t see a link there. Send me if you do!