3rd Hatchday

simple matter such as my darling's 3rd birthday sent me in a dilemma too. Indecisive if we should celebrate his birthday, where do we celebrate, what cake do we buy, what design do we choose.......

Finally it was decided that Yes we will celebrate his 3rd birthday on 8th jan 2012 (Sun) and I have promised my dear Babe that it will be the LAST year of celebration, crossing my fingers and toes.

It was prettty easy peasy to decide the theme of his birthday party; Bowling, no doubts about it since he is going all gaga over bowling clips in Youtube. Venue was not as easy as it seem as we are trying to accomodate our guests to our every best if possible. Sourced for quite a few locations and had initially decide on Superbowl @ OCC after enquiring about the rates and catering services. However when we head down to place a booking, the irritating caterer turned back on his words and increase the price threefold while reducing the varieties on the menu! So very pissed off can.

So back to square one and started all the callings in action once again to double check and triple check lest it happen again. Placed a booking with the bowling centre @ CDAN at Bukit Batok and pop in one day with intention to check out catering menu. It was then I was full of regrets booking the place and the hub supported my idea to switch venue (not very appropriate to disclose our reasons here anyway).

So, again it was back to square one but fortunately I have done all the necessary homework so drove down to the next potential location; The Chevron. Decided that it is only wise to view the place before we proceed with any booking again. Once we are in there, we knew that it would definitely be the right choice and wise to switch venue. Placed a booking for 2 lanes for 2 hrs, one of which a bumper lane for the kiddos.

Head back home came the tedious arrangements. Choosing the menu was a 10 minutes affair while the horrifying aspect is to resend the change in venue to all guests via SMS. It does not help that even though it was less than a week to the party, many of the invited guests have not RSVP which is quite the norm anyway. Messaging, replying, reminders to bring socks, constantly on the phone and trying to recall if anybody have been missed out which would be a disaster; no joke going to the wrong venue!

Next up will be the birthday cake. Initial plan was to go for a bowling theme cake and had coordinated with one of the baker. Any hiccup here again since I was not aware that I had to collect the cake a day before in the noon since they are operating on sunday and the collection point is in Bedok! So again had to abandon this plan and go for a 'normal' cake. T&F will be the best option since Zethan is so much into it so T&F it shall be. Just 4 days before the party, the cake was ordered. I had to even watsapp the hub the shortlisted 3 designs to decide which to order (Zethan asleep in the car thus I had to order the cake myself).

On the big day itself, we headed down to Chevron slightly earlier to make sure the caterer did setup the food in order, the nitty gritty details such as lanes allocation, rental of shoes etc and in case any guests were to arrive earlier than the stipulated time.

We were very glad that everything went in order though the kiddos actually hogged the 2 lanes thus we have to apologise to the adults that they did not manage to bowl afterall! The birthday boy had a rolling good time and seeing the priceless happiness on his face made all the hassles and hiccups worthwhile!

A big thank you to all our dear friends and family for attending the party, sharing the joy of the little man. Pardon us if we have not been good hosts and hope that you have enjoyed yourselves too.

Lastly Happy 3rd Birthday My Darling!