Sunday, August 29, 2010

Cayden-boy's first visit to the zoo!

The weekend birthday celebration was over. 28th August 2010 (Friday) marked the very first milestone for Cayden-boy. we have chosen to push the celebration earlier on Sunday so that its easier for everyone to come forward and join the party!

Mama consolidated all the gifts and planned to let Cayden-boy tear open them by himself.


Mama line up all the presents for a memorable shot

As mama tried to stack up the gifts, Cayden-boy crawled towards mama excitedly and wanted to join the fun (i should rephrase join the "damage" instead).


Cayden-boy joining in the fun!


Cayden-boy chooses his favorite present - Of course it's the Ang Bao what esle?!


Hm... which one contains more $$ ?


Cayden-boy's next pick... Polo Ralph Lauren's gift box.. 
A boy of taste, huh?

Now the presents tearing begins!'



Cayden-boy becomes more violent..


Cayden-boy uses his ultimate weapon to speed up the tearings

Cayden-boy received a "Winnie the Pooh" field chair

And... a Fisher Price snail!

Summary of the gifts that Cayden-boy received on his first birthday!


After the present tearing ceremony, we has another event waiting for us! It's also Cayden-boy's first day to the zoo! Dark clouds hovering the sky certainly makes mama worried and she begins complaining and passing negative comments.. I tried to stay positive anyway..

Just when we headed toward the ticketing booth at the zoo, rain starts pouring down! Hm, we should have our breakfast first, shouldn't we ?

Mama forcing a smile at the camera

I requested a better smile... That's what I received from Mama..


heavy downpour at the zoo!

We decided to have our lunch in KFC. If the rain stop after our lunch, we shall proceed to the zoo, else we will make our way to the next destinations. The rain is certainly a blessing in disguise! Just when we enter the fast food restaurant, I met my reservist friend who is a zoo staff. Without any hesitation, he passed me a staff voucher..



And lady luck seems to be smiling at us. The rain stopped right after our lunch! We rushed to the ticket couinter to purchase the entrance tickets.

Zoo ticket for 3

Cayden-boy staring at the first animals he saw in the zoo!

The proboscis monkey

Mama smiles genuinely




Trying to feed the gigantic fish

 Cayden-boy at The Great Rift of Ethiopia

 I liked the waterfall..


 Cayden-boy staring at the monkeys...


 Grandma teaching Cayden-boy about the birds..


Cayden-boy telling grandma "there.. there.."


"Cayden-boy, that's the white tiger"


Follow me... hand on the chest and say "怕怕"


Don't do this when you are inside... OK?



Me playing with Cayden-boy..


Papa and son kangaroo released from the crates!

 The penguins behind are marching... March of the penguins in Singapore?!



 Cayden-boy loves "Ah Meng"


Sometimes its difficult to tell Cayden-boy why NOT to mess with crocodile...


Close encounter with the buaya

No strangers with the goat...


 Cayden-boy sitting on the elephant chair in KFC


 Mama brings Cayden-boy to the waters...



 Cayden-boy is born to be a beach boy... He loves the waters!


 Woh! the waters coming!


Cayden-boy's laughter melts everyone's hearts!


 Cayden-boy is anticipating....

Grandma rocks the see-saw!

Cayden-boy goes river crossing!


As we walked towards the last few stops, Cayden-boy fell asleep.... 

Mama compares the polar bear height to an adult and.. to an infant..


 Mama purposely snap this shot to educate me that her milk is better than the cow's!

I guess its not just "going to the zoo", but it's the purpose to the zoo that makes the trip meaningful and enjoyable! Going to the zoo has a whole new meaning to me now.
 

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Cayden-boy's birthday celebration!

After my ICT, we were left with only a week to prepare for the party. The cake's being decided to order from pine garden. And the theme for the party is... Mama is very stressed.. There is NO theme, NO goodie bags, NO party flavors for the guests. To be honest, I am getting tremendous pressure from Mama's behavior. When mama's mood is not in a good shape, I am definitely not going to have a good time... Before I became a "NOT-involved daddy", I was frantically searching for ideas for a 'birthday party that people will remember and recalls'...

After doing some maths calculation, we realize that the online balloon packages were not really cheap. If we were to give such ballons, we have definitely have to top up with some "usual" goodie bags or party flavours that might not appeal to adults or kids - its will just another birthday party

The next line of thought is to make all kids happy with pet-balloons! Figured that most parents will not buy such expensive balloons for their kids. It will definitely leave behind deep impressions on the kids that attend Cayden-boy's party! With this, we can drop the idea of goodie party bags.

We adopted the pet-animal balloon idea and found the "barnyard" theme for Cayden-boy's birthday! Finally, I can get some peace at minds! haha!

Decorations for the party only began to roll at 9am. Things get going real fast after the pet-animals arrived. Food arrived shortly after the balloons at around 11am and the birthday cake arrived just on time at 12 noon!

Pet-dog is chosen to greet the arriving guests!

Pet-pig and cat welcome the guests into the house!

Poka dots table cloth for Cayden-boy !
(Mama's allergic to poka dots diminished in this special occasion )

Fall-in the pet-animals along the raised platform 


Keeping the pet-animals in the "cage"

Decorations completed!

舅舅 doing up the sign-board

Mama's innovative sign board at the lift

Cayden-boy staring at the strange creature

Cayden-boy's first guest!

Buffet from Casserole

The buffet begins!

Gift from auntie Suzanne!

Cayden-boy's birthday cake!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you...

Mama helping Cayden-boy blow out the candle after the birthday song

 Family photo I

 Family photo II


After the cake cutting ceremony, the guests begins to disperse and mama begins "unchaining" the pet animals for the guests. A little miscalculation on our side is that we had prepared too many cows instead of the more popular pigs and dogs. These two pet-animals were the first to run out followed by cat and we had left overs for cows..

Anyway, the party is a success to me and I hope that all the guests enjoy themselves!