The Celebrations!

Felicia is one year old now, she’s no longer a baby, she’s a toddler!!  

For her birthday, we got her a brand new shoes and two new dresses. We also got, of course, a very big and colorful birthday cake we especially ordered from Igor. They custom made one of the accessories so it would look like her favorite doll (it's the huge one in front, with red and yellow stripes and flowery antenas), and she’s pretty excited about it.

We celebrated her birthday THREE TIMES!.  

The first one was with her Jakarta grandparents, on her birthday, Thursday 9 October 2008. At first we planned to eat out, but since her Emak and Engkong seldom got the chance to come to Surabaya, they preferred to spend as much time watching her at home. So we ended up eating a delivery of 369 noodles at home.  

Since we could not cut the cake because of other celebrations are waiting, Felicia gave Emak and Engkong their own Opera Cake to bring to Jakarta, which we heard is a big hit with Felicia’s uncle and aunt there as well.  

Felicia also got her nanny and the maids some cupcakes.

Thank you for Emak and Engkong for the especially heavy and sparkly angpao! And thank you as well for Uncle An An and Auntie Chen Chen for the toy!

On Saturday, The second celebration waiting, because her Surabaya grandparents were away to Singapore for medical check up during her actual birthday. In the afternoon, we brought the cake to Nai Nai and Yei Yei’s home and took more pictures there before having dinner in our favorite family restaurant, Lemongrass, which offers great food, delicious drinks, and MSG free! So Felicia can also eat the Pho there (it’s Vietnamese Restaurant)

Her Nai Nai got her lots of brand new clothes from Singapore, along with new socks and hair bands and accessories. Felicia got the chance to ride her bike around the swimming pool, and played with the grand piano there. Yei yei gave her a red envelope as a gift, which she gracefully accepted at first, waved it around, and decided that a piece of envelope did not interest her at all and threw it away. Twice.

HHHHhhhh…I have to teach her that it’s what’s inside that count. Literally. Hahahaha…., anyway, thank you Yei Yei for the gift, It’ll go to her savings for sure (boy she has more money than me!!)

Also thank you for Aunt Sophia and Uncle Alex for the toy!

On Sunday, I decided that I haven’t met my friends for almost one year and that’s too long and invited them for lunch and hence Felicia’s Third Party. This time we had lunch in my favourite location restaurant, a café called The Library inside the new Gramedia Bookstore.  

My friend Lidiawati also brought her son, and we had good time. Unfortunately since Lidiawati and I are preoccupied with our kids, and there’s husbands as well, we could not chat as freely as we’d like to….

feisty lil one

But it’s a good thing to meet up, we promised we’ll see each other again on Lidiawati’s son’s first birthday in a couple of months. Yup, that’s how busy we are ahahahaahhahaa…..

Thank you Aunt Lidiawati for the colorful dictionary! Felicia’s mommy LOVES it! And thank you Aunt Natalia for the toys! Felicia loves it!! Hehehehe….

And so the three celebrations made the whole week a pretty tiring one, but thoroughly enjoyable!