Florian's 3rd Birthday

Another birthday party!! Isn't this what year end is about? Parties, parties and more parties!! Florian's 3rd birthday at the American Club.

Auntie Tine had stayed over the night before so that we could all go together... and as always we were fashionably late (a little), when we arrived Auntie Rocio was doing some face painting, I didn't want any of the paint on my face!! At least not done by the Aunties, I wanted to do it myself!! :)

There was a Thomas pinata at the door!! THOMAS!!! Everyone was crazy (all the boys..) about the Thomas pinata and we each took a picture with the Thomas pinata. There alot of goodies and food on the table, my personal favorites were the chicken nuggets and the M & Ms.

Then it was time for a little sing along with Brian Funshine! We all did a little boogie, jumping around and singing and them it was time for PINATA!! We all went into the open air playground for that, each kid had their turn of hitting the pinata but it was so hard that finally Auntie Rocio 'loosen' the pinata and got the strongest boy in the group to hit it and all the goodies fell out and everyone was happy!! :)

Then it was back to the Miami room with a little more singing and dancing before cake time and then it was time to say bye-bye...

Thank you Florian for a wonderful party and the party bag!!

Victor's 3rd Birthday

Auntie Tine decided to have a birthday party for Victor today!! The actual day is November 17th, tomorrow, a Monday which happens to be a working and school day for most.


I was very excited too see all my buddies again! Aidan & Ian, Victor, Brandon and Conrad, 6 boys to drive Victor's Papa crazy!! ;) There were alot of food on the table, the most popular dish of the day for the Mamas & Papas was the spicy Bamboo shoots!!


We played, fought over Victor's toys till it was time to sing Happy Birthday and to cut the cake! Auntie Tine put on extra candles so all of us could help blew the candles out!! In fact, she had to light it twice because Aidan gege didn't get to blow any out the first time around.


Then it was time to unwrap the gifts! Amongst the gifts were; Thomas the Train set, Pooh musical instruments, cash register, Vtech camera, art supplies... Did you see the look of envy on our faces!! :)

All of us played with Victor's new toys, Thomas the train set was the favorite among us, boys!! Except for Conrad who was busy shopping at che che Kaylee's shopping market!
Then we proceeded downstairs and played in their indoors playground! What a fun fun day for us all!! :)

Thanksgiving Fundraiser

Taiwan has a policy/law that if nobody sponsors a stray after 10 or 20 days(am unsure, will check), the animal has to be put to sleep. If you have been to Animals Taiwan, you'll be against that policy too!!

You see 2 legged or 3 legged dogs with such enthusiasm for life that puts many beings to shame!! How can we possibly deprive them of a chance to live or take that chance away from them?? It's cruel and really unkind!!

As a single individual, there are limitations to what I can do so I thought of a fundraiser to raise some money to help these animals at AT.


And of cos, a fundrasier would NOT be possible if not for the help of other wonderful volunteers, animal lover supporters and our sponsors for food and of cos, Hell's Kitchen!!


After thoughts:

I was kinda disappointed with the turn out, I expected more people as alot more RSVP!! But there were a couple of other major events going on that day in Taipei city; the blues bash, 90s nite...etc. Next time, we'll just sell the tickets in advance!! I had been on my feet since 2pm, never have I heard my name called more often in 1 night than ever!! (I wanted to dig a hole in the ground and bury myself...) At 12am, I was just exhausted... could hardly kept my eyes open and couldn't even drink another sip of beer...

Well... We raised $20,400ntd on door sales and $4,301 with donations so a total of $24,701ntd.

Well done everyone!!

*Pictures to come later~~

Michele's Daycare

I miss my lil buddy Conrad, haven't seen him all that much even since he started daycare but since he has stopped kindy, (YAY!!) we can now spend more time with each other!!

Auntie Kate had a doctor's appointment and Mama offered to babysit Conrad so that I would have a playmate for that afternoon.

What did we do that afternoon? Played trains, shared a bike, pretended we were raincoat warriors, sang 'ktv', watched dvds, ate fruits and snacks...



Mama, can we please have Conrad over more?? I love having a playmate!! :)

Slumber Party!

Is there anything better to do on a cold, wet day??

Bunk in with a Danish girl and her family? :) Since they're nice enough to drive all the way down to Taipei City to pick us up!! That'w what friends are for! *muacks*

Alan prepared a sumptuous dinner of tomato hot pot, chicken stew and fried chicken. After dinner, the kids played and took a loooong bath, yep all 3 of them! Victor even showered Brendan...



put the kids to sleep and came out to gossip about everything, even msn each other though we were just next to each other and of cos, guess what we did again... ATE!!

So much for my pre-pregnancy weight if this continues...

We got up at 10am the next day, Victor had missed kindy that day so it was gonna be a day of play and fun for the boys! I made some fried rice for lunch with whatever I could find in the fridge. Surprisingly, the fried rice turned out to be pretty delicious!! :)




I decided to do a lil craft with the boys, we made a beautiful Japanese Patchwork Butterfly and of cos the Mamas did most of the work! Then we went to get some dinner and it was time to make our way back home...



Thank you! As always, we had a wonderful time at the Chens.

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Halloween Kids Party 2008

We were gonna host a 'post Halloween party' at our apartment but Iling had graciously and generously opened up her house to us instead. (despite not knowing half the people who were gonna be there...) :) As we could have a BBQ instead of just ordering a party platter.

Guestlist:

1) Michele & Brendan
2) The Gertens
3) Tine, Victor & Mila
4) Sherry, Kaylee, Brandon & Amy
5) The Webbs
6) The Margos
7) Rocio, David & Florian
8) Iling, Alan, Connor & Amelia


Iling had prepared a wonderfully food spread! There were beef tacos, chicken quesadillas, hamburgers, sausages, pasta, salsa... and there was even sour cream for the tacos!






We started with Barney sing and dance with the kids and parents then we helped ourselves to the food and then we changed our little ones into their costumes. I was supposed to be a Hula girl and Brendan my Cabana boy BUT I was 'nursing a hangover' thus was too lazy to dress up. So my lil B was a Kitty Cabana boy... :)




Mommies hid in the rooms and the lil ones had to go around trick or treating, there were alot of goodies, from candies to cookies to stickers!!





Thank you all, we had a fabulous time!!