Le Rong's 1st Birthday!

I have finally decided to sit down and spend some time to write this post which should have been done 2 months ago. It's our 2nd princess's 1st birthday party! Not exactly a birthday party, more like a get together by our immediate families to celebrate Rongrong's birthday.

After browsing through various cafes or restaurants online, we have decided to hold Lerong's birthday lunch at a vegan cafe called Loving Hut. Besides reserving a table there, we also bought a simple yet nice cake from Bengawan Solo and a cute birthday balloon that will add to the ambience. Dear and I also bought a bracelet each for da xiao bao from Poh Heng Jewellery, and they're expensive! Oh, and I also bought a cute little strawberry dress from Taobao that Rongrong would wear on her special day.

  A beautiful cake and how Rongrong was fascinated by the balloon.

The celebration would have been better if we could occupy one big table instead of splitting into 3 separate tables. But it was still great to see the kids (Le Xuan and Abby) enjoying themselves and the food there was quite good too. Rongrong was starting to get cranky as it was time for nap, so we let her take a 15 minutes nap before waking her up for the cake cutting session. 

          

Singing the birthday song and cake cutting time! 

Le Xuan was as usual a very sweet sister. She bought a present for meimei using her savings and even wrote a poem for her. I could still remember her asking me and porpor to bring her to kiddy palace and she took a really long time deciding what to buy for meimei. And her poem never fails to impress me. 

          

                                             Proud Le Xuan giving meimei her birthday present

It was a simple yet lovely birthday celebration. Too bad we didn't take a group photo of everyone and all the presents that Rongrong received, but it was a memorable day. Oh, and on Rongrong's lunar birthday which was about a month ago, we had the traditional Zhua Zhou ceremony for her to see which item she'll pick. Haha she picked both ruler and pencil at the same time! Not sure what that means though, but just for fun!! 

                                                                Pencil + ruler = ?? 

We hope that Le Rong will continue to be healthy and happy, and the sisters will love each other deep deep. Papa and Mama love you loads! Sometimes I still wonder if this is all a dream as I never thought that we'll have a second child. I feel blessed to have our little family and will continue to count my blessings everyday.  :)