S/O birthday presents

Cricket81

Are you going to have LO open presents at their party? It seems like the polite thing to do, but logistically it seems like a nightmare. I just can't imagine LO staying in one place for more than a present or two. Any btdt advice or plans to share?

ColieAnn31

We plan on opening gifts at his party. I'll either get a cousin to help out or ask one of the grandmas to help out. I'll probably go to grandmas first because they'll be a little more neat about things and I want to keep cards with the gift so I don't forget who got what for thank yous

musicalsilver

LO did.  We didn't have a ton of them, and he had fun banging the boxes around.  As soon as he banged one, I'd open it for him.  Since his attention span is short, it went relatively quickly!

Mufflerlove

Our party is only 2 hours at a park so I'm leaning towards not opening them there..

BC&LM

We opened them for him.  Everyone wanted to see them opened, but he was too tired to do it by that time.

megaroo64

We kinda just went with it.  B sorted crawled around near his presents, but most of the opening was done by my niece (she is 8).  B was wrangled near us, so he at least looked at everything that was being opened on his behalf.  

phishgirl29

We did not open gifts. I guess my UO is that I dislike that for this age. Their attention spans are so short that it's a waste of time. We had 54 people (17 being kids) and that would have taken way too long. I went to a 1st birthday last year where it took an HOUR for the gifts. No thank you!

numbersgirl08

subliminalrabbit said:

We suggested no gifts on the invite, but I know at least a few people will be bringing them.  Because we said no gifts please, we will not be opening anything at the party -- because that would be rude to the people who actually respected our wishes. 

Samesies.