For the party, we had a dinner at Kirin in Richmond. Rather than the set menu, Michael and I got to design our own menu that included a lot of our favourite Chinese dishes. I know that for the set menu, there is thought put into the meaning of each dish and the esthetics of serving and consuming it, we couldn't be bothered. The dinner was meant to be relaxed, delicious, and did I mention delicious?
The theme of the party was "Two Peas in a Pod". I tried going along with theme as much as possible without going too over the top. Green was the theme colour, we had cupcakes with fondant pea pods, peas in a pod salt and pepper shakers as favours, the seating chart had a green vegetation feel........it was all about the theme. I really had fun planning this. It reminded me of wedding planning which I do enjoy. So for anyone reading this blog and is getting married in the near future. I would love to be your wedding planner for free. I live for it.
The boys were showered with lots of neat gifts and many, many red envelopes (which will help finance their hockey career). They wore their cute Ralph Lauren terry cloth polo outfits and dad wore his polo to match. They also had to wear their lucky gold jewellery. Each had a gold bracelet from Poh Poh and a gold necklace with a tiger symbol (from her friends).
Their great uncle and auntie flew all the way from HK to celebrate with them. I think they enjoyed seeing the babies for the first time. I believe we now have to go to HK and visit them with the boys in March. I haven't been to HK in 21 years. It's due time.
We had a feeling going into the party that both DNA (get it Daniel and Alex = D and A= DNA??? hahaha!!) would be cranky as it would be right around the time of their bedtime routine. And rightly so, they had one melt down after another. Way too much stimulation for one day. That night, after returning home and having a bath, they slept right through until 7am the next day. Two very tired but very much loved babies.
Two days after their celebration, we celebrated Michael's first Father's Day. He got a mug with a picture on it of Daniel and Alex wearing their "My Daddy is #1" onesies and a coupon book with great things like diaper changing exemptions etc.
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