Miley's 2nd birthday party was a blast! Similar to her first party, we kept it small and invited only some of our friends with kids plus a few others who really loved to come.
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| e-invite designed by daddy for the party |
Brainstorming for the party theme started almost a month ahead. And because we were also traveling to New Zealand for holiday in between from the 10th to 21st Oct, we made sure that we had everything planned out before we left. Shopping for decoration stuff had to be done early too avoid everything Halloween related being sold out nearer the date.
So why a "Halloween X Nursery Rhymes" theme? "Halloween" cos Miley's actual birthday falls on 1st Nov, a day after Halloween and it would be cool if the kids could dress up. "Nursery Rhymes" to "soften" the scariness of the theme. Coincidentally, spiders which are commonly used as one of the mascots of the festival also has a nursery rhyme named after it! Most importantly, Miley loves that song!
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| The house was transformed for the night |
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| A paper marche Humpty Dumpty hand made by mummy |
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| Spiders created by daddy and mummy |
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| Miley helped with the decorations too! |
So the plan was, all decorations Halloween themed with touches of nursery rhymes. Besides playing nursery rhymes as background music, we also prepared a spread of nursery rhymes inspired treats for the kids and some with a twist of gore.
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| Sweet treats with table cards designed by daddy |
Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars
Honey stars cereal
Pop! Goes the Weasel
Pop corns
Three Blind Mice Cheese Cubes
Kraft cheese cubes
Sand Witches
Sandwiches with ham and cheese
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of eyeballs
A pail of chocolate eye balls
Rain Rain Go Away
Colorful jellies decorated with little umbrellas
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
Hard boiled eggs
Muffin Man
Muffins baked by daddy
Not forgetting the cake! An Incy Wincy Spider cream cake! The most painful part of the preparation had to be the cake. It would have been so much easier if it was a fondant cake but persistent daddy insisted that it should be cream cos although fondant cakes are pretty to look at, nobody really likes eating them. And after many round of back and forth of email exchanges with several bakeries, we found one that could do it, almost. To cut the long story short, the end product that was presented to our guest was after "touch ups" by my very talented wifey. :)
Guests started arriving at 5pm sharp and very naturally gathered themselves at the little play corner that we had setup specially for the kiddos.
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| Having fun at the kiddy corner |
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| The adult corner (invaded by kids too) |
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| Getting ready to sing the birthday song! |
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| Terrible two spidey girl with with one of our guest and her little tiger boy. |
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| Phew.... finally over! |
