Birthday issue...

MrsWilliams2B

My boys are six years and 4 hours apart. I had planned a joint party, but as I start planning...I run into a theme issue. my soon to be seven year old, wants an angry Birds party. Fine with me. But,  do I disregard completely my soon to be one year old, since he won't remember it and just have a small cupcake for him? My oldest was born July 18th and my baby was the 19th. How would you go about this?  Thanks

kmm2150

In my mind, a 1st birthday is all about the grown-ups, with mostly grown-up guests, and a 6th birthday is usually more kid-oriented, so....I think you could either just do a few small things for your youngest as part of the angry birds party, like his own little cake, etc., or let your older child have his "own" party that's all about him and his friends and then just do a small gathering for your youngest, since he won't remember it anyway (see the post farther down the page about keeping first birthday simple).

I think it's really neat that they share a birthday, but THEY probably won't want to "share" it with each other for a while (says a twin who was VERY excited to have her "own" birthday party starting in 4th grade).

clineak

kmm2150:

In my mind, a 1st birthday is all about the grown-ups, with mostly grown-up guests, and a 6th birthday is usually more kid-oriented, so....I think you could either just do a few small things for your youngest as part of the angry birds party, like his own little cake, etc., or let your older child have his "own" party that's all about him and his friends and then just do a small gathering for your youngest, since he won't remember it anyway (see the post farther down the page about keeping first birthday simple).

I think it's really neat that they share a birthday, but THEY probably won't want to "share" it with each other for a while (says a twin who was VERY excited to have her "own" birthday party starting in 4th grade).

I agree with all of this, especially about not wanting to share forever. I think it's important to recognize each child individually--maybe there's a joint party every other year?

MrsDL

I agree (coming from somebody who shares a birthday with a sibling - 4 years and 1 minute apart ; ) ).  For my younger sister's first few birthdays, my mom did a party for me and incorporated something special for her - always a seperate cake. As we got older, we got our own parties with friends at school and got to pick what we wanted in terms of a theme. My mom would also have a small party for the both of us with family - at that point she didn't really do a theme - just seperate cakes we got to pick.

srs5624

I'd decorate with the Angry Birds theme that your older son wants. The one-year old really isn't going to notice decorations and such. That stuff is all for the adults, not the kid.

DS had his own cake. It was a little 6" round (two tier) cake. He smashed the crap out of that cake, he had a ball doing it and the adults thought it was hilarious to watch.

We had a separate sheet cake for the adults.

 

Ditto the others... they're not going to want to share birthdays forever.

MrsWilliams2B

Thanks ladies. I am going to go with the Angry Birds theme for DS1, and we'll have a smash cake for DS2, and make 24 cupcakes, 1dz being angry Birds and the other being Elmo. This year, DS1 is excited to share with DS2, but I know that will change. I appreciate your input

laurakaz13

Yes, you should just disregard the 1-yr-old.  As others have said, your baby has no idea what's going on.  But your 7-yr-old does.