Mom always wanted to make pulut kuning for Seff's arrival (just some Malay tradition; pulut kuning symbolizes gratitude -when something good happened) ; and then we wanted to celebrate my mom's 61st and Sara's first birthday (Sara = my niece)

So we gathered and mom cooked pulut kuning, rendang, nasi impit, kuah kacang and sambal telur puyuh. I cooked sayur lodeh and spaghetti carbonara. Together we made karipap pusing

Sadlyyy no photos of our cooked dishes. Sobs

At 10 am, all the little ones are dressed but the birthday girl Sara was sleepy so we had to straightaway proceed to cake-cutting. But Sara was still cranky and we got Iris taking over (and not gonna step down for anyone else to do the cutting beside her. LOL); we finally had some photos for safekeep



Birthday girl Sara


Babah and Seff


Cake cutting by Iris



Nenek + Atok + Seff + Iris

At 12pm, our neighbours, my colleagues and our extended family came over to eat and chit chat. It was a nice afternoon ❤

/me switching roles between a host and a mom (went to bedroom for a comfortable feeding)

Lessons learnt that afternoon are :
(/me imagining Seff's 1st Birthday Partyyy)
1. To plan according to Seff's sleeping pattern
2. To hire a professional photographer
3. To have both eastern and western dishes options like we did (surprisingly, I had to cook carbonara again because it was cleared up! Everyone with little child said their child eats pasta -good to know!)

Since there were no accidents, the child play with each other comfortably, I guess our seating arrangement and all are good that day 😊

HAPPY 61st BIRTHDAY, MOM!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, SARA!

WELCOME TO THE WORLD, MY DEAR SEFF!




Another year to be grateful, Alhamdulillah