JE's 9th Birthday

My eldest girl's birthday is in September. She had been doing lots of preparation for her 9th birthday party months ago. Her friends were verbally invited a month before the party. Based on the idea from her best friend's birthday party last year, she prepared lots of present to give away to her friends during a game session. All friends who attended her birthday party had at least one present. Although it did not run smoothly as some of her friends complaint that my girl gave the bigger present to her best friend, kids are still kids as they played happily after that.

After reading about Chin Nee's preparation for her girl's birthday, I prepared the beads for the girls to make their own bracelets. I confirmed their attendance to JE's birthday a week before the party and bought the necessary beads especially the alphabet beads for their name. None of them had the experience in beading and they found that it was very tiring to bead. In the end, I have to help the girls to finish up their bracelets! Anyway they enjoyed the bracelet making session and satisfied with their own made bracelets. Here are some of the bracelets and beads.

Too bad that I didn't manage to snap the picture of bracelets made by each girl as I was too busy during the party.

The birthday party started at 5pm for game and beading session, then dinner at about 7.30pm as I only prepared the foods when the girls were playing (except for the orange juice and jelly as I like to serve food warm/hot). I was so tired by preparing all the foods and entertaining the girls at the same time since they had problem in the beading session. Below are the foods I prepared for the birthday party. The fried mee was contributed by my mom as she worried about my skill in frying mee/meehun. ^_^


The girls had fun and played until 9.30pm. My girl was happy too as she gets presents..but for me, I have lots of clean up to do after the party! Luckily my mom and hubby helped a lot in the clean up.