Spacey birthday number 5

photo courtesy of The Picture Company

We celebrated my son Enzo's 5th birthday on January 4. He shares a birthday with my late grandfather, Amadeo Valenzuela, and ironically has the same initials as his nickname, VAL. My lolo's birthday party always used to be the first big event of the year.

Last year, we celebrated at Activefun at Tiendesitas but first had a simple cupcake-blowing on his actual birthday with some Sonja's Cupcakes, two vanilla ones and two chocolate, one for each year.

Sonja Ocampo's cupcakes have been the most consistent since the cupcake explosion in Manila. Actually--she's the one responsible for that cupcake trend. She learned her craft from Magnolia Bakery in NYC then brought her mad skills here (thank you Sonja!). I like to call this event the "Vanilla in Manila." 

As expected, the vanilla ones were more in-demand amongst the 10 and younger set...

 

four cupcakes with his cousins and lolas

This year, we decided not to have a big celebration because we are going to bring him to Hong Kong Disneyland this summer. So we had lots of little celebrations. 

The first Sunday of the year I bought a chocolate cake from Red Ribbon, it was exceptionally good: the cake was moist and it even had caramel filling. True value for money!

Birthday boy with cousin Chloe

Ninang Margie treated us to Disney on Ice for his gift. Lola and I had nachos from here

Guess where we are?

His school only allows simple birthday celebrations such candle blowing on the cake and giving of individually packaged cupcakes. Enzo has been quite into Star Wars (especially the pod race in Episode 1 and the cruiser chase scene in Episode 2) so I wanted a Star Wars themed cake and cupcakes with toppers. So I asked Sonja if she was up to the task, and she thankfully was! Bet you didn't know Sonja did regular cakes too, huh? Though I forgot to shoot the cute cupcakes, here he is with his classmates and the lovely cake decorated with the Millennium Falcon :

looks like the real deal!

"I'm the king of the world!"

Learning in school. Enzo's birthday means Earth has rotated 5 times around the sun

The last of the cake celebrations with the cousins, and mucho, mucho saliva later...

Guess who ended up finishing all that cake. So yummy and its always a load of fun to turn your mouth blue!

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