My baby turns 8

Another year, another few hundred grey hairs and another worry for me as my baby girl rushes to grow up. She turned 8 on Sunday and we as all 21st century parents are expected to do these days or they will write a book about us, threw her a birthday party. And as kids these days will demand, it won't be your normal come-around-the-house-and-hang-out kinda party for 8 year olds but the kind where you throw at the these kids-play-area-type places where you have to sell your spleen to fund it.

There are many of such places like Mega Kidz at Mid Valley and Kidz Sports at 1 Utama. We decided to check out 1 Utama. It was not too bad for 8 year olds. The play area was big and innovative with slides going down in spirals and the many other spots where you can crawl and jump and just be a kid.

Mandy invited about 30 of her school friends and until Friday, not many RSVP'ed. We had a full turnout and we found out that many parents didn't know what RSVP meant and what you were supposed to do with it. Their thinking was, "Hey you gave me an invite and it's up to me if I turned up or not but since you invited me, you have to prepare for my portion." For those of you who don't know what RSVP is, pls google it and make sure you do it!!!!

The birthday entertainment was not too bad. The guy hosting the kids was good but he spoke quite fast and it was a little difficult to understand but kids being kids, they just look at what others were doing and followed. He brought out this multi-coloured parachute and asked them to do all kinds of variations of running under it.

That parachute was about 12 feet in diameter. The kids were asked to run under them, get caught, then run out....come to think of it, it was a pretty stupid game....maybe that's why they liked it.

Food was normal stuff but the adult had some good curry chicken. So Mandy had most of her friends attending and of course her cousins and she had tons of presents. My 2 sis-in-laws and mom-in-law, drove down from Kuantan for the day just for her party and my cousins bought Mandy all the presents she wanted, so she was a real happy camper!

As mentioned, she had a lot of her friends who attended including one kid called James that no one knew who it was!! He came, played, ate, we paid and he went home with a party bag......and no one knew who he was!!! (Twilight Zone music playing....dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee...)

Anyway it was fun, I am without a spleen and my baby has grown another year. I am praying that she will stay at this age forever.