Daddee Yah!

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Aren’t toddler / preschool birthday parties fun? Especially when it is held in an “adult” place, served with “adult” food, attended by more adults than kids??

Haha! Not trying to be mean to the parents of Princess T who organised it Princess T and Caitlin have been friends almost all their lives; the Mummee’s were party animals during “those” days!

The dinner party was held at a Korean BBQ restaurant, much to our delight (I don’t mind the food, up there with sushi and almost with all-you-can-eat buffets!) Everyone brought presents for the little princess, including Caitlin; who incidentally, did not know what we had bought for Princess T!

You see, Hot Mummee and I only had the chance to go shopping that same weekend afternoon, right after Caitlin started her nap- yes it was intentional! It wasn’t so much we didn’t want her to come along, but we didn’t want her to miss her nap. She gets cranky when night comes without her afternoon nap, starts being anti-social and rude to others, and also wouldn’t enjoy the party as much.

By the time she woke up and got ready for the dinner, she had completely forgotten about this requirement for shopping! We left the pressie in the car…

And so, she did enjoy the dinner party. Running around playing with the birthday girl, worrying Daddee somewhat since there were red-hot charcoal “stoves” being carried in installing them into the table-bbq-recess, hot soup being distributed, “bottomless” kimchi and other Korean side dishes battling to satisfy the battalion of hungry dads and equally large single men.

Time came for the Happy-birthday song!

Yes, this is the same friend who got Caitlin’s birthday cake on Caitlin’s own 3 year birthday bash, from the same shop! In fact, it is the same Princess T helping Caitlin blow the candles there, and Caitlin returned the favour here!

Time for present-opening, and Caitlin rushed to bring her box to Princess T, eager for her to open her’s. I think upon the first wrapping-tearing that Caitlin realised she didn’t know what was inside, and urged even more urgently for Princess T to open quickly!

We got Princess T a bead-threader, you know, to make beaded bracelets and necklaces. And as usual, *Caitlin was declaring “I want that!” to us as well! I can’t blame her for feeling that way; she didn’t know what else we were browsing, and would probably rightly so have liked this toy too. The only pacifying I could offer was “wait for your own birthday when you too will be getting presents… Remember your own party and presents?”

I think she finally understood, but the effects of I-want-that-too didn’t go away as quickly!

* No, these are not hints to Princess T’s parents nor anyone reading this post! We are trying to drill into her head that she cannot demand things from people; anything she wants she has to ask and get from her own parents.