Sze Yi's Birthday Party at School

Last Friday, we had a birthday party for our girl at school. We asked her to choose one, as we're just planning to have 1 for her, either at home or at school. She chose to have at school, and she requested for a princess birthday cake. Besides the cake, we also prepared little party packs for the kids. Since Christmas is just round the corner, hubby suggested this...

Little christmas socks with some goodies inside

(marshmallows, haw flakes, raisins, gummies)

And since we're in Christmas mood, we prepared for all the kids in the school too. Furthermore, I was concerned of the kids' feelings if some didn't get it, as I thought all the kids would be involved during a birthday celebration.

Here's the birthday girl on that day...

Birthday girl with Mei Mei and the Princess Cake (Sze Juin can wear her Jie Jie's uniform already!)

Family photo session (Yes, both her maternal & paternal grandparents were there too! Including her darling Chik Chik)

Photo session with her classmates and teachers

During the birthday song singing (they actually sang in English, Mandarin and Malay!)

Everyone was enjoying the cake

After the cake was cut by her teacher, Sze Yi was asked to present the birthday cake to Mommy and Daddy herself. This was to teach the child a sense of respect and gratitude to the parents. I was quite touched of this gesture, honestly. While everyone was busy with their cake, this little toddler was enjoying herself too!

See what she was up to... she even tried to make friends with one of the kids there! Ah, and Jie Jie was being manja with her Chik Chik.

Finally, it's the party pack distribution time...

Little Santarina at work

Sze Yi only distributed the goodies to her classmates. The rest would be distributed by her teachers later. It happened that there were some guest downstairs at that time, so the birthday celebration was done upstairs in her classroom. I was a little surprised that the other kids were not invited (unlike previous celebrations). Maybe the classroom was too small to fit in all. However, I informed the teachers that we prepared enough for the whole school, and they assured us that they will distribute to the rest of the kids later.

We also learnt that Sze Yi's best friend has the same birth date as her, and I was thinking what a co-incidence. Maybe that's why they clicked so well in school. And it also happened that we parents chose different days to celebrate for them, or else there would be 2 birthday cakes that day.

We left later, leaving the birthday girl behind. She told us that she didn't want to stay for full day that day, and since it's her birthday (not the real day, though), we relented. We promised her that we'll pick her up after lunch. However, when she was saying bye bye to her Chik Chik, she became all teary and told us that she wanted to go back with Chik Chik and Amah. Daddy became soft-hearted, so he said OK. In the end, our girl was just in school for the birthday celebration that day :) She went in late that day somemore, at the same time as us. We're not so strict with her since it's school holiday and they just play at school anyway. However, I'm worried we've spoilt her. Even her grandparents came all the way to celebrate with her in school, all per her request! Not to mention her Chik Chik, which is her favourite uncle (and she called him her darling) also took leave that day.

p/s: A note from Mommy......

We hope you're happy with the celebration, Sze Yi dear. It was all planned out rather last minute, since Daddy nearly cancelled everything when you misbehaved the week before. It's Mommy who talked to Daddy into keeping his promise, haha :) So pls make sure you won't disappoint us, be a good girl, ok? You're a big girl now, and Mommy and Daddy will always love you no matter what. But please, never use this excuse to be naughty, ok?