Southerners in Singapore: Big Birthday Celebration

So Henry turned 7 the end of May and Sumner turned 10 August 2nd, the day after we arrived in Singapore, and Ella turned 12 August 31 as we were just starting to feel settled. No birthday parties took place yet each child was properly feted at home. That being said, Henry especially has been reminding us that he hadn't had a birthday party and he really wanted to have one here with his new friends. After one of the kids attending someone else's birthday party last mont at LaserOps, a laser tag place, I realized that LaserOps might be the perfect setup for a joint birthday party celebration.

Hence this past Saturday, Ella, Sumner and Henry each invited five friends to come to LaserOps and have some fun. It was an great morning filled with three different rounds of laser tag - which each birthday child the head of his own "team". Needless to say, the youngest boys didn't fare as well as the older ones but everyone had a blast. It was followed by pizza and cupcakes and a lot of noise. It was the first time I met most of our kids' friends and their parents since there isn't school drop-off or pick-up as an opportunity to meet them. Hard to talk too much since a little chaotic but at least nice to see the friends our kids had talked about.

Glad to officially check the birthday parties off the list for another year - and all at one time! Yeah!