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G's birthday is on a Tuesday. That's fine; we are both taking off from work that day. My Mom will be here all day, but DH's parents are driving 10 hours and won't roll in until 5 or 6 p.m. I've been hearing to serve the cake after presents because he'll need a bath after, but I'm thinking the in-laws (and us) will be hungry right when they get here. So do we have dinner, then do presents, then have cake? I don't want him to be so full from dinner that he has zero interest in "eating"/smashing his cake. I'm not worried about it getting late because he rarely goes to bed before 8-8:30 anyway, just trying to figure out the best order to do things.
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  • blu-eyedwifeblu-eyedwife member
    I don't think there's a right answer to this, do whatever works for you! On LBB's actual birthday we did inlaw presents while I put dinner on the table we did our presents when he woke up then dinner, then ice cream. At his birthday party we didn't do presents until the next day.
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  • Elsa1984Elsa1984 member
    I would do dinner first. I would worry too much about the order of cake and present until you see how he is the day of. Almost every first birthday I have been to, the kids don't care about opening presents. The first gift gets opened and the kid is either into the gift, or into the tissue paper, or into the wrapping paper....and doesn't care about the rest of the presents. I would do dinner and then maybe a few gifts, the cake, a bath, some cozy jammies, and the rest of the gifts if he seems interested.
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  • Elsa1984Elsa1984 member
    That was supposed to say "wouldn't worry about"
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