Safiya's birthday celebration - Part I

8th December 2010

It was a big day for Safiya yesterday. Coincidentally, yesterday was a public holiday in conjunction with Hijrah New Year and as such our parents took the opportunity to organise Safiya's belated birthday party.

This year, Safiya made a request that her school friends are invited as well. After much thought, our parents decided to agree ~ as a compensation for the long delay since Safiya's birthday was actually in October.

In order to fully entertain Safiya's friends and their family, a separate small party was held yesterday morning from 11 until 1.30 p.m. Safiya was ecstatic to see her friends come; namely Amelie (with her two elder brothers), Alexandra, Siena, Theen (with her brother, Kesn), Melanie, Svanik (with her sister, Simran) and Melodie ~ and their parents too, of course!

When our guests first came, we let the children play on our small bouncer with a special appearance by Elmo. Safiya's friends were excited to see Elmo talking and telling stories.

Then, all guests were invited to our kitchen to make their own pizza for lunch. Daddy was responsible at the "pizza counter" while mummy minds the oven. Quite interesting for 3-4 year olds, definitely.

Apart from pizzas, we also prepared mini burgers, smiley potato chips and popcorn chicken for the kids and salad as well as sandwiches for the adults.

After that, daddy brought Safiya's birthday cupcakes ~ homemade by mummy. Everybody at the party said that the cream cheese cupcakes with chocolate ganache icing were finger-licking good! Hehehe...

Then, it was play and splashing time. Mummy's decision to buy the inflatable slide pool while in Australia was a good one, indeed.

After all that fun, it was time for our guests to leave. To everybody who came to the party, thank you for making Safiya's party lots of fun and we'll cherish the memory forever. And here are pictures of Safiya's birthday gifts from her good friends:

Thanks everyone!

P/S: We had another birthday celebration for our family members next. We'll post the pictures soon.