Baby Brendan's 1st Birthday!

Last Saturday evening after a tiring day of cleaning up our own apartment so that it is ready to be leased out again to a new tenant, we decided to have a mini celebration of baby Brendan's 1st birthday. His actual birthday was supposed to be this Friday, 26 Feb but we decided to bring the celebration forward so that the extended family members can be around too. Also, we might be having a second celebration at my mum's side this coming weekend.

I have been shopping and thinking what to buy for his birthday present a few weeks ago and have absolutely no idea what to get him as we already have loads of toddler toys at home. Most of the toddler toys are identical like blocks, shapes and musical instruments which come in all sorts of different designs. So, we decided not to buy him any toy but to get him a book only. More importantly, we realised that baby Br is not so into reading as his brother, Ry. He is more restless when it comes to reading time and refuses to sit still. Hopefully, he will be "inspired" by the book we bought him. It is the same scenario for my mil and brother-in-law. In the end, both ended up buying new clothes for him.

Ry kept saying this is his birthday and is happily humming away the birthday song. We'll be having an actual celebration for him soon next week at his preschool.

Baby Br modelling in his new set of clothes bought by my mil - his birthday present from her.

Ry looking bored as he can't wait to have the cake and Baby Br absolutely clueless over his birthday!

Cutting the cake! Br is officially one year old!

I am really happy and amazed at how quickly Br's first year has passed. It was an eventful year with the birth, moving back from US and me becoming a full time working mum again. K and I have since learnt a lot more about our kids and how each can be so different. Most importantly, we feel blessed to have 2 healthy, energetic boys.