A Happee Day For Little Children

On a halcyon Sunday morning, with sprinkles of fluffy cumulus clouds and gentle, placid sunshine, our family descended upon a very Happee Day in Hort Park. This was an event conceptualised and organised by a very altruistic and gracious blogging mum, Daphne from Mother, Inc. The entire event was a beautiful gesture of love and compassion for 30 (or more) families from the Children's Cancer Foundation. The abundant actions of  kindness by so many volunteers who made the event an exciting one with an exhilarating atmosphere of fiesta and festivity was truly inspiring. 

We were there as "helpers" where we were supposed to mingle with the parents and children with cancer, but we ended up enjoying ourselves so much that I felt almost apologetic! I think it was also uplifting to be mingling freely as one with the patients and their families, not treating them any differently, giving them warm smiles with our kids playing boisterously alongside theirs. Because other than the dreaded illnesses inflicting them, these children need acceptance, love and fun - just like any other kids in the world. 

And that was what they had - the entire event was filled with non-stop fun and conviviality. The helpers and guests alike were enjoying themselves tremendously. What was really touching was how the "true" volunteers - face-painters, mascots, balloon-sculptors, caricature cartoonists, performers and many more - seemed to be enjoying themselves thoroughly, beaming smiles of warmth and cordiality. 

The Bees hobnobbed with all the different children to frolic around in the gigantic bouncy castle, ran in the wide open grass patch, decorated cookies and watched the fantastic Ironman and his dancers in full captivation. 

The Bees decorated cookies and Big Bee decorated a whole big cake! 

Big Bee decorated a big beautiful cake while Little Bee had her arm painted with a gorgeous pink butterfly. They both had caricatures drawn, which resembled themselves so much! 

Little Bee had a butterfly painted on her arm, and both the Bees had cartoons drawn of their faces! 

And we met up with such an engaging and quirky balloon sculptor who created a Cinderella balloon for Big Bee and a butterfly for Little Bee. 

They posed with mascots from all sorts of fables - from Pooh Bear to Bugs Bunny to Ironman to Flash to The Incredible Hulk to Batman! 

In the bouncy castle and with the mascots! 

All in all, as "helpers", we did not help much except to participate in the many bustling activities! What an event - spawned by a big-hearted mum and her hubby, publicised purely through fellow bloggers and by word of mouth, yet touching the lives of many more. We are looking forward to the next Happee Day, and hopefully, we could help in even more meaningful ways!