none of our family lives in town and most of our friends dont have kids. a few will have infants by then, but not party age kids.
I mean, I'm sure will get her a cake and a hat...but I dont see any point in a party...I can picture it now, people playing beer pong at a first bday party.
Re: anyone NOT having a 1st bday party?
I think there will only be 4 kids at DD's party. Only a couple of our friends have kids. Plus, my bro's FI has 2 kids.
We really contemplated not having a party for a couple reasons. I know every 1st birthday is emotional in it's own way, but it's going to be especially difficult for us I think with everything we went through (went into labor at 19 weeks, bedrest, hospital bedrest, then delivered a preemie with complications) and I just wasn't sure I wanted to celebrate with more than just my own little family of 3.
Only my brother and sister live by us so all the rest of the family would have to travel at least 3 hours to be here. But...they all really wanted to be a part of it so we decided to have the party. It's only immediate family and our 3 closest friends though.
We are spending the actual day of DS's birthday just the three of us together so we figure we're getting that time to ourselves after all.