Yes you' re invited :)) so you might know we celebrated sunshine s birthday recently with a full on buddy budday boo style. As a Mom i'm so excited when sunshine s birthday is nearing b'cos i get busy planning his birthday i have planned all his birthdays so far and its been unique in its own way. But this time I just decided a last minute party trust me :-!
So what did we do this time ? Last 2 years we celebrated it in the fulltoo family way throwing a huge party in a party hall, buffet dinner, ballons, kiddy activities, some fun return gifts etc etc I'm not normally one to go all out on kids parties neither Am I as creative as these professional party planners especially the DIY pinterest ones are inspirational oh back in India I did not really get a good planner unfortunately in fact for sunshine s first birthday I hired a planner but did all the creativity by myself I always did a inspirational theme. my sunny boy loves animals so first year it was a animal theme with a cute elephant cake and animals wearing party hats the planner conveniently got the jungle book mowgli animals but i changed it all and gave him a picture of how i want the animal cut outs to be,second year was Thomas the train so it was a train invite, train cake, lots of train goodies for kids, I printed some sheets with a Thomas the tank engine drawing and kept crayons on the party table so kids got busy colouring. We had some interesting goody bags for the returns. Kids loved the bag and opened it all in the party itself :) so i do think out of the box and end up doing some creative stuff ;) This year we went a tad different. Daddy and I decided not to spend too much on the party and also not to overwhelm the little thing with too many kids and adults so we wanted it low key in short and just a family outing maybe a dinner or some favorite play place.
Just about 2 days before his birthday a lovely idea struck my mind, i thought of things he likes to do and what is his fun quotient etc etc not to forget he still does not know that a birthday is a birthday you know what i mean... a birthday for sunshine is a song, it means clapping hands, it simply means a nursery rhyme from his zillion rhymes playlist, it also means Mommy should sing the next song 'Hey Diddle Diddle' bcos after' happy birthday' its' hey diddle diddle' in his nursery rhyme playlist :-!!
So at 3 my boy surely did not care much about a birthday or a birthday party as such but you know Mommy s enthu cutlets as usual started popping up and after much deliberation Mommy decided why not do a party in a small and intimate way but keeping the party quotient alive and the' party' part is always there afterall we celebrated in a grand scale last 2 years and like most indian families go overboard :- D with the guest list - so did we uncles s uncles, that far relative,oh this friend has a similar age kid who is his nephew so call them too, the entire neighbourhood etc etc its almost like a mini indian wedding reception with a photographer running behind almost anyone, capturing some funny moments like maybe your neighbour s mom relishing the cake :D
Okay Okay Coming back to the party this year, so i wanted to keep up the trend but celebrate it just amongst few buddies - cake-lollipops- ballons- all these were in my mind ....so i thought why not a outdoor park, sunny summer days are here and kids love being outside the house playing all day, i picked up a beautiful river front park with picnic benches one of my favorite and sunshine loves it too bcos the added advantage to this park is a live farm with geese walking freely in the park or some trying to get into the river, some ducks, some roosters and Hens in a barn, 2 baby wolves oh my gosh who look like huge dogs (caged but of course)for sunshine they are doggy, also there is just one donkey, some goats and some turkeys the gobble- gobble . For my animal lover this was of course nothing but a feast. So a farm animal ranch was the theme this time.
So i quickly made an invite and decided to call only a few close friends, we went shopping the day before and i ran over my birthday to do list and shopped merrily!!The party was in the morning at 11.30am bcos earlier in the week the weather report showed signs of rains although it was a very sunny day but i did not want to take a chance afterall the party was outdoor in a open space. I barely slept for 3 hours out of excitement and was up at 7am started preparing stuff for the party. The menu was all home made snacks - cocktail idlis, margarita cheese pizza, and some sumptous creamy mayonnise sandwiches. Friends back in India exchanged some recipes with me on watsapp some were youtube found and some my own , My Dad helped me with idlis and also packing all the stuff and everything turned out to be fingerlicious !! Sunshine s Daddy checked-in everything into the car trunk.We stopped by to buy balloons and what a awesome party it was... Sunshine strolled with theflock of geese initally, as the party buddies started arriving one by one we all sat by the beautiful schuylkill river bank and the kids were busy throwing stones into the water whilst Mommies posed for some clicks. All the Kids had the party hat on except sunshine who conveniently threw it away in exactly 60 seconds luckily i managed a click though.We blew the number 3 candle as sunshine eagerly waited to have his cupcake, all sang the happy birthday song and sunshine interrupted 'Hey diddle diddle' for those who can understand what i mean. we had to sing quickly and then all kids had a feast having their own cup cakes and snacks. its so much easier with cup cakes you know. After snacking we all strolled around to see the farm animals and the kids refused to go back home they had a blast!! It was party time at its best!! kids doing their own stuff, Moms & Dads chatting, sipping, eating and also having their 3rd eye on the kids :) it was a happy ' Happy birthday party'.
The biggest milestone at 3 is kids start talking they graduate from a toddler to a preschooler (somewhat) well sunshine s talking is yet very cute he joins words most often, sometimes its a sentence like' keep ittta their' meaning' keep it there' so the last one year the journey between 2 to 3 his dictionery goes like this :
Libeary (Library)
Eagu park (Eagleville Park)
Audom park (Audobon court Park)
Illdiii (Idli)
Uppaa (Upma)
chapiiti (chapati)
Sanfich (Sandwich)
bed (Bread)
Bikkki (biscuit)
Lappo (Laptop)
Eiphant (Elephant)
Hippotopotopomus (Hippopotamus)
Zoo
Scoo (School)
lo mowa (Lawn Mower)
Cycle
Caaaaa (Car)
Get Done (Get Down)
Enughhhhh (A big No - Enough)
Daddnnnn (Daddy)
Mamma (Mommy)
Tathaa (Thatha - Grandfather)
Paatti sometimes it goes patty (Paatti Grandmother)
Saindaa Maasi (Sandhya Maasi - earlier it used to be Maaiiii)
Sonyyyy (Sony Maasi)
Achchcha (Achacha - Grandfather)
Annnty (Achamma Grandmother)
Taishaaa (Tanisha & Tanishka - cousins both were referred to as Taishaaa)
Nambundaaa (Nandu Mama)
Peeetiii aunty (Preethi Aunty)
Pemaaaa (Prema Aunty)
Kol Patty (Kollu Patty - Great Grandmother)
Doyyyyiiii (Dolly)
This is somewhat a list i compiled so that i remember all of this when he grows up once again Happy birthday to my dear sunshine stay happy forever and thanks for making Mommy happier by the day !!!
Lots of Love
Sunshine s Mommy
So what did we do this time ? Last 2 years we celebrated it in the fulltoo family way throwing a huge party in a party hall, buffet dinner, ballons, kiddy activities, some fun return gifts etc etc I'm not normally one to go all out on kids parties neither Am I as creative as these professional party planners especially the DIY pinterest ones are inspirational oh back in India I did not really get a good planner unfortunately in fact for sunshine s first birthday I hired a planner but did all the creativity by myself I always did a inspirational theme. my sunny boy loves animals so first year it was a animal theme with a cute elephant cake and animals wearing party hats the planner conveniently got the jungle book mowgli animals but i changed it all and gave him a picture of how i want the animal cut outs to be,second year was Thomas the train so it was a train invite, train cake, lots of train goodies for kids, I printed some sheets with a Thomas the tank engine drawing and kept crayons on the party table so kids got busy colouring. We had some interesting goody bags for the returns. Kids loved the bag and opened it all in the party itself :) so i do think out of the box and end up doing some creative stuff ;) This year we went a tad different. Daddy and I decided not to spend too much on the party and also not to overwhelm the little thing with too many kids and adults so we wanted it low key in short and just a family outing maybe a dinner or some favorite play place.
Just about 2 days before his birthday a lovely idea struck my mind, i thought of things he likes to do and what is his fun quotient etc etc not to forget he still does not know that a birthday is a birthday you know what i mean... a birthday for sunshine is a song, it means clapping hands, it simply means a nursery rhyme from his zillion rhymes playlist, it also means Mommy should sing the next song 'Hey Diddle Diddle' bcos after' happy birthday' its' hey diddle diddle' in his nursery rhyme playlist :-!!
So at 3 my boy surely did not care much about a birthday or a birthday party as such but you know Mommy s enthu cutlets as usual started popping up and after much deliberation Mommy decided why not do a party in a small and intimate way but keeping the party quotient alive and the' party' part is always there afterall we celebrated in a grand scale last 2 years and like most indian families go overboard :- D with the guest list - so did we uncles s uncles, that far relative,oh this friend has a similar age kid who is his nephew so call them too, the entire neighbourhood etc etc its almost like a mini indian wedding reception with a photographer running behind almost anyone, capturing some funny moments like maybe your neighbour s mom relishing the cake :D
Okay Okay Coming back to the party this year, so i wanted to keep up the trend but celebrate it just amongst few buddies - cake-lollipops- ballons- all these were in my mind ....so i thought why not a outdoor park, sunny summer days are here and kids love being outside the house playing all day, i picked up a beautiful river front park with picnic benches one of my favorite and sunshine loves it too bcos the added advantage to this park is a live farm with geese walking freely in the park or some trying to get into the river, some ducks, some roosters and Hens in a barn, 2 baby wolves oh my gosh who look like huge dogs (caged but of course)for sunshine they are doggy, also there is just one donkey, some goats and some turkeys the gobble- gobble . For my animal lover this was of course nothing but a feast. So a farm animal ranch was the theme this time.
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The biggest milestone at 3 is kids start talking they graduate from a toddler to a preschooler (somewhat) well sunshine s talking is yet very cute he joins words most often, sometimes its a sentence like' keep ittta their' meaning' keep it there' so the last one year the journey between 2 to 3 his dictionery goes like this :
Libeary (Library)
Eagu park (Eagleville Park)
Audom park (Audobon court Park)
Illdiii (Idli)
Uppaa (Upma)
chapiiti (chapati)
Sanfich (Sandwich)
bed (Bread)
Bikkki (biscuit)
Lappo (Laptop)
Eiphant (Elephant)
Hippotopotopomus (Hippopotamus)
Zoo
Scoo (School)
lo mowa (Lawn Mower)
Cycle
Caaaaa (Car)
Get Done (Get Down)
Enughhhhh (A big No - Enough)
Daddnnnn (Daddy)
Mamma (Mommy)
Tathaa (Thatha - Grandfather)
Paatti sometimes it goes patty (Paatti Grandmother)
Saindaa Maasi (Sandhya Maasi - earlier it used to be Maaiiii)
Sonyyyy (Sony Maasi)
Achchcha (Achacha - Grandfather)
Annnty (Achamma Grandmother)
Taishaaa (Tanisha & Tanishka - cousins both were referred to as Taishaaa)
Nambundaaa (Nandu Mama)
Peeetiii aunty (Preethi Aunty)
Pemaaaa (Prema Aunty)
Kol Patty (Kollu Patty - Great Grandmother)
Doyyyyiiii (Dolly)
This is somewhat a list i compiled so that i remember all of this when he grows up once again Happy birthday to my dear sunshine stay happy forever and thanks for making Mommy happier by the day !!!
Lots of Love
Sunshine s Mommy
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