Nathanael’s First Birthday Party

Yes, we were attending another birthday party today. Honestly it’s really tiring to attend two functions consecutively.

This round it was my hubby’s colleague son celebrating his first birthday. Coincidently both parties we attended, the families are from Indian. But we experienced different things today.

They rented a venue in one of the restaurant (Anjappar, Authentic Chettinaad) in Little India. I have been breathing for 31 year and I’m born and raised in Singapore, but I never been to Little India before. This was the first time I was there. (Nothing to be proud of, but again it’s another eye-opening experience for me. Is there anyone out there like me?)

We reached there around 7 pm but the host had yet arrived. (Hmmm, this is not very commendable.) Anyway, while we were waiting for the host and other guest to arrive, I fed Yvette her dinner. Another guest who was my hubby colleague arrived 15 mins after we were settling down.

I think the host only arrived at 7.25 pm. I have met them before. They were invited to Yvette’s first birthday too. Their son was much bigger now after we last met 3 months ago. Guests started to pour in. Maybe it’s their culture of having late dinner, at 8 pm; I still don’t see a lot of their guests around.

The Set up

The cake cutting was done at 8 pm. After singing the birthday song, they have a very short praying session. (They were catholic.)  

The cake

We were offered cake before dinner. Arrr… I was so hungry by then. Dinner only started at 8.30 pm. But I can only eat a small portion of the food served. It’s too spicy, I was really afraid it will affect the quality of my breast milk. As for Yvette, I think she started to show sign of tiredness too. We didn’t stay long after our food mainly due to Yvette kept yawning. (I think she must be tired.)

My niece offered to pick us up as she wanted to pop by our place to collect her stuff and also she was around that area too. (She was at Marina Square.) I took up her offer gladly.

We left at 9.15 pm.

On our way out, we found one restaurant really happening. 

The Banana Leaf Apolo

I told my hubby maybe we could pop by one day with Yvette to visit the way of life in Little India.

Term 3: Lesson 4 with Little Neuro Tree (TPY) (English)

Finally there is a morning class available. Her classmate of her usual class wanted to switch to the morning, and I decided to go for it too. By switching over, we won’t have to accommodate Yvette’s lesson if we wanted to go out in the evening.

Now there are only two of us in the class. With only two students, the class run faster. But the poor girl (err, I made a mistake last session; I thought the baby who was crying was a boy. In fact, she is a girl.) still crying. It’s always takes awhile for the baby to adapt. Yvette was really cranky when she started her enrichment class with GUG.

Emphasize of today session as follows:

1. Reading books about animal.
2. Smell a variety of dried food. (Dried cuttlefish, ikan bilis & shrimp.)
3. Play Peek-a-boo game.
4. Roll a ball.
5. Practice saying Hello & Goodbye

We missed the first part of the lesson. We were late for 10 mins. Yvette loves the smell of the shrimp and dislikes the cuttlefish and ikan bilis. When playing the Peek-a-boo game, she was so excited.

The class ended 3 mins earlier today. The girl fell asleep during the class. So cute! It could be due to she cried too much in the class and got tired.

After class, hubby came to pick us up and we went to the coffee shop to have our lunch. I brought along the lunch I cooked in the morning for Yvette so that 3 of us can have meal together. We proceeded to Kiddy Palace after our lunch. I wanted to get another puzzle for Yvette. I “upgraded” her puzzle a level up. I am no longer getting her puzzle with a little handle for her to grip. I doubt she will has any problem holding those puzzles but I think it will take a while for her to get those numbers fit in correctly.

The new puzzle

There is area in TPY Kiddy Palace where they put all the Activity Stations together. It’s so colourful and Yvette love to hangout there.

While she was playing with those toys there, she was also happily clapping her little hands together with the music played in the store.