After Daryl's party on Sat, we were too tired yesterday to open the presents which he had gotten during the party. Thus, we decided to open them up today so that he can play with them.
Daryl with his birthday gifts. From left to right - Uncle Chris & family's pressie, Uncle Henry's pressie, James & gf's pressie & Pris's bf's pressie
Chris & family's pressie
Daryl playing with Chris & family's pressie
Pris's bf's pressie. Daryl loves it a lot as the board books has pictures of his fav cars & trucks. My guess is that Pris bought the pressie on her bf's behalf. :p
James & gf's pressie. This's also 1 of Daryl's fav. See how happy he's when he's playing with it.
I took a vid of Daryl playing with the toy car. See for yourself how happy he is. :p
Here's another vid of Daryl playing with the toy car. I took this about 2 hours later when he played with the toy car again.
Henry's pressie. Daryl loves the toy cars & trucks while mummy loves the sweets. :p
Thanks again to all uncles & aunties who made his birthday such a memorable 1. :)
To celebrate Daryl's 2nd birthday, we decided to invite our family members to a dinner party. We were thinking that since it's already his 2nd birthday, we don't have to have a big celebration. Thus the low key celebration this year. In addition, it's also an excuse for Kel's family members to get together as they don't do that much.
The celebration is held at J K Don Cafe & Bar which is located at 201 Telok Kurau Road #01-04 Kurau Court. The cafe serves all kinds of food - Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Western, etc. There is even a pool table there for our guests to play if they feel like it. It is opened by 1 of Kel's good friend, thus we can be assured of good food & service.
The venue
Instead of a buffet style dinner party, we opted for an ala carte 1. We both feel that it might be better coz our guests can order what they feel like eating instead of being restricted to what we had ordered beforehand. However, in order not to let them go hungry while waiting for their food to be cooked, we ordered some side dishes such as sashimi, sushi, taro balls, japanese siew mai, etc to be served 1st.
Mum & Kat came over to my place 1st in the afternoon so that we can go to the cafe together. Pris will meet us there as she had to work in the morning. Before setting off for dinner venue, we took some pics with Mum.
Daryl being a brat while we took this pic
Daryl the bochup boy
We reached the cafe at about 5.30pm so that we can await for our guests to arrive. While waiting for them, we took some pics.
Me & Daryl. As you can see, it's getting increasingly difficult to get a good pic with him together.
A family pic
Mum & Pris
Mum & Kat
After the photo taking, Kel & Daryl decided to play some pool. Since it's Daryl's birthday, Jacky (the chef cum manager) decided to open up the pool table so that we & our guests can play for free the whole night. We were very touched by his gesture.
Asty carrying Daryl while Kel positioned the pole to hit the ball
Chris & his family were the 1st to arrive. While waiting for the rest of our guests to arrive, his daughters decided to learn to play pool too.
Chris's 2 daughters playing pool
While our guests are arriving, Daryl had his dinner 1st. It's 1 of the privileges of being the birthday boy - you don't have to wait for all the guests to arrive before you can eat your dinner. :p
Daryl covering his mouth when I was preparing his dinner of chawan mushi & plain rice
Daryl striking a pose
Daryl in 1 of his fav Sesame Street bib
Daryl wiping his mouth with his hand while having his dinner
Asty feeding the birthday boy
When our guests arrived, we entertained them & got them to place their orders for their main courses. While waiting, they had some of the side dishes, played some pool or chatted with each other.
Chris & Kel's Mum
James, Chris & Kel's Mum
Chris's eldest daughter. She covered her mouth as the wasabi that she was eating was too pungent for her.
Francis's 2nd son & 3rd daughter
Francis's 3rd daughter making a face when he fed her some food.
Kel's Gu Ma & Dad. Kel's cousin - Richard & family is in the background
Kel's cousin, Gu Ma & Dad
Kel's Gu Ma & Cousin
Richard & family
Richard & his family
Kel's cousin - Freddy enjoying his main course. Doesn't it look delicious?
Daryl staring at the balls at the pool table
Daryl playing pool while Francis's 2nd son looks on. However, Daryl's idea of playing is to put the balls into the pockets manually
Daryl & James. James is 1 of the few people who can carry Daryl without him protesting.
Daryl & James playing pool
Chris's eldest daughter playing pool
Chris's 2nd daughter playing pool
James caught in the act trying to feed his gf
A bashful James with his gf
Jacky cooking up a storm
At 9pm, we had the cake cutting ceremony. The cake is an ice cream cake which is handmade by Jacky. However, to be honest, while I am impressed with his cake making skills, I wasn't too impressed with its appearance. Jacky had asked a friend to decorate the cake, but the decoration is to girly for my liking. Haiz... Nevermind, it's Jacky's original creation afterall. As long as the cake tastes nice, I think that I can live with it.
A family pic
Another family pic
Singing the birthday song
Blowing the candles
Cutting the cake
A pic with Daryl while Kel is cutting the cake
Daryl trying to bite Kel
Kel cutting the cake
Another family pic
Pris & Daryl. This is her fav pic as Daryl cooperated with us when we were taking the pic.
Mum & Daryl
When Kat fed Daryl his birthday cake, he spitted it out as it was too cold. I hope that you can make it out from this pic.
Kel's dad tried to feed some birthday cake to Daryl without any success
Now it's James's gf's turn to be caught feeding him. What a lovey dovey couple. :p
James & his gf.
After the cake cutting, we stayed inside the cafe to eat the cake & chit chat. Daryl, on the other hand, went out of the cafe to play with Cherie (Jason's daughter) or mei mei as he called her.
From about 10pm onwards, our guests started to leave. I think that most of them enjoyed themselves at our party. Most told Kel that they enjoyed the food & the chance to get togther with each other. For us, we are glad that we organised this party with our family members. I took some pics with my family again before they leave.
Pris, Daryl & her bf
A family pic with my mum & sis before they leave
Daryl also enjoyed himself a lot at the party. He was so happy that he didn't want to sleep even though it's way past his bedtime already. Since it's his birthday, we indulged him by letting him watch a Sesame Street VCD. At the same time, we took a pic with his ang paos for remembrance.
Daryl with his ang pows. Thanks a lot to all his uncles & aunties for being so generous. He also received some birthday gifts. However, we were too tired to bring them in from the living room to take pics. Think I'll take the pics tomorrow when Daryl opens them.
When Daryl finished his Sesame Street VCD, we switched off the TV & the light & he was knocked out very soon. What a day...
