1st Birthday

Valerie is finally ONE! Being the first birthday, we, the parents wanted to throw a nice party although knowing she won't remember a thing when she grow up. Since being at home is the best environment for her, we decided to hold a small one with just families. I surveyed a couple of birthday cake options and decided on a Minnie Mouse theme (since she's born on the Year of Mouse). The cake was ordered from Pretty Frosting. Everyone said the cake looked really nice but a few guests commented on it being too sweet. Oh well.. we couldn't please everyone :p

Next, we saw some nice ballons at Balloon Buzz and Ivan couldn't help himself and ordered some. We spent about RM100 on it, but when the balloons arrived, I have to admit, they were really cool and sure brought out the party mood for the night. We also had a few small ones floating up to the ceiling so the kids could pick one and play whenever they liked.









Nanny dressed her up really cute that night with a band on her head. Doesn't she look like an angel? :D :D



This is Valerie's Nanny and her daughter on the right, the other girl in the pink shirt is the kid she's been taking care since born. So these 2 ceh cehs are her usual playmates during daytime. Luckily she was around to help look after Valerie while I went about entertaining the guests...


Cake cutting time! Someone said the photo looked more like our birthday than hers. Hehe...



One of the rare photos where you could see Valerie smiling. She was a bit 'scared' that night seeing so many strange faces. She would stick to either nanny or myself.


Open pressies time!! Look how busy was the birthday angel with angpows, toys and clothes.





The many 'wannabe' engineers trying to set up Valerie's new bike.


Valerie's Harley Davidson...


Grandma trying to make Valerie walk but to no avail. Guess she's not walking on her birthday yet... Hehehe...

At the end of the birthday party, I sat back and pondered that Valerie was finally 1 year old. I've always thought a big change would happen when your baby turns one. Or maybe I would be more free by then. But, she's still very much the same. I thought I'd weaned her off from breastfeed at 1, but well.. she's still at it and she showed no sign of losing interest in it. She's still waking up middle of the night for a feed, still likes to be carried, still looking for attention all the time, still can't walk, still whines when she has to sit longer in a car seat and still wants me to accompany her to sleep (and wants to sleep in between us when she wakes up at night). Oh well.. she's still very much a baby :P