Baby Turned One Year Old!

November 18, 2006
Dencio's Restaurant
Theme: Cowboy and Indians

This is long overdue. But I'm glad I'm able to post this now. Yup, Baby turned a year old already. We've been like waiting for it for the longest time that it was such a joyous occasion when it finally happened.

The preparation was a blur altogether but I think it was as equally fun and memorable as the actual day itself. I was on a trip two weeks before Baby's birthday. We were in Cebu. By the time I got back, I already started on my new work. Very early on, I was already entrusted with the responsibility of conducting a training and I only have a week to prepare for it. So much as I want to concentrate on planning Baby's first birthday party, I hardly had the time to do so. It was very much on my mind though while I was preparing for the training and doing multitude of tasks.

When I got back from Cebu, Candy and Dane was kind enough to accompany me to the "right" places -- where party goodies can be bought. We went to several shops and practically sniffed every shop in Chinatown. Both being experts on holding birthday parties (in Dane's case, coordinating whatever party there is), they showed me where I could buy cheap but really nice toys and goodies for the pabitin, for prizes and for giveaways. They coached as to what goes into holding a children's party and what are the things to be considered. They also helped me check out some possible venues. It reminded me so much of our moments when I was still preparing for my wedding. (Thank you guys =) Truly, appreciated it.)

But it wasn't until two days before the party that Bolo and I did some serious shopping for the party. That was when we bought the toys, searched for some of Baby's still needed accessories for his costume. The theme was "cowboy and indians" and we are still lacking the cowboy hat, boots and err... holster :( But really, God is good since when we were out buying the stuff we needed, he came across a friend of his who readily lent him the hat and the Timberland boots that his son outgrew. Nice huh?

Even upto the last minute, Bolo and I were still busy preparing for the pabitin and the pinata.
It was something we enjoyed doing though :) Thankfully the party went on smoothly... errr... there were some glitches like we had to help the staff at the venue fix up the room since they were not yet prepared when we got there. Below are some of the pictures of the party.