Lil Shauna's 7th Birthday

Our princess is turning 7 on 12 May but we decided to hold her bday party 2 weeks earlier. Her party was at the Rink, an ice skating party. It cost us $300 for 10 kids. Any additional kid is at $30 and $14 for every skating adult. We also rented quite some skating aids. The hole in our pocket was big. Each time I do such a big scale celebration for the kids, I tell myself that it would be the last time but I dug a different hole the following year and jumped in. Haha. We cheated the system by buying some groupon entry tickets to cover some additional persons, which should not be used for private parties. It was quite an embarrassing affair trying to hide from the party host but attempts to try to save our pockets are more important.

Lil Shauna invited the usual SHSS gang and 2 classmates. We sent out invitations to 5 classmates and I thought only 1 was coming. The other turned up unexpectedly. Luckily I have enuff goody bags to go around. 

The party room was huge and we were so glad that there was no party before us and we were allowed into the room when we arrived at about 4.20pm. We had so much stuff.

There were minimal decorations and I didn't bother to put up more. 

The kids started arriving and were happily and noisy running around. I was so glad for the big room. Then Lil Isaac bumped his gum and bled even before the real action started. Aiyoh. 

The Rink was unusually crowded, probably bcos they have so many on-going promotions now. There is the almost 50% groupon discount that would expire on 19 May and the whole world (including us) is redeeming their vouchers. I bought like 10 adult and 11 children groupon vouchers to use for Lil Shauna’s birthday as well as the weekly lessons. Then, there is a bday month bring a friend for free promotion. On top of that, there is also this all Poly and ITE students skate free in May promotion. The Rink was so noisy and I was glad that the room is fairly sound proof.

The party package comes with 2 party hosts. There were a total of 14 kids and 8 adults skating. Other than Lil Shauna, a few others could move on ice fairly steadily. The rest were clinging on to the skating aid with their dear lives. Lol. I see the kids falling and climbing and falling but I think they all had fun. The party hosts tried but could only help that many kids. Nevertheless, the kids still find their way to move around. 

We headed back to the room for dinner and cake cutting at 6.15pm.

Then the kids went back to the ice at 6.45pm for the remaining 30 mins for skating. Lil Isaac fell countless times throughout. There were so many people in the rink and I was busy helping other kids and had no time to really look after Lil Isaac. When I get to follow him, he was a bomb zip zapping around people. Luckily he didn't do much of his tricks this time. Interestingly, he was also super well behaved and skated really nicely when he was holding on to Xiao Shu’s hand. So I left them for quite a while doing so. Towards the end, he fell and made Xiao Shu fell too and I saw the 2 of them flew on the watery ice. Ouch! In one of Lil Isaac’s final fall towards the end of the session, I heard he bumped his head and the party host carried the crying boy back to the room. I missed that totally. Bad mummy.

The party ended really quickly. Two hours for ice skating and food was really a rush. I think the kids enjoyed themselves though. Only Lil Shauna said that she was bored bcos the other kids were busy keeping themselves from falling and nobody had the extra energy to play with her. Haha. She loves the party hosts though and was seen hugging the jiejie every now and then. 

I was dead tired by the time we wrapped up and headed home. The kids were still full of energy and happily ripping wrappers back home. Thank you uncles and aunties for all the blessings.

There is still Lil Isaac’s bday in October. We would do something. He is already complaining that his bday is too far away and he had been waiting for too long. Lol.

Mummy Lim