January 2012 Moms
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Big Party? Little Party?
Wondering what everyone is doing for baby's first? We're just doing a very small party in our home with family and a handful of friends. Maybe I'll get it together and have a big party next year, but this year I just couldn't swing it.
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Re: Big Party? Little Party?
small.
we have a tiny house with a fairly good sized property. DS1 was born in June, so we were able to host a number of family and friends outdoors and have a great time. But DS2 is, obviously, in January and we don't really have that option (where we live it could be totally beautiful and warm, but it could just as easily be chilly, windy or raining).
I feel really bad that we won't be doing things equally but I guess the little guy doesn't care. First birthday parties are all for the adults anyway... I still feel bad.
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Well. DD#1 was born in July 2010. She has a MONSTER of a 1st birthday party. I'm talking 100 guests outside at a park with a taco truck and all kinds of ridiculousness.
DD#2 being a January baby can't have an outdoor birthday party (we live in Chicago). So I was so excited to be able to tone down the party. We booked at an indoor play place at a park district. It only holds 32 people. I was so happy. EXCEPT we over invited people HOPING some people wouldn't be able to make it.
NOPE. EVERY freaking person is coming. Seriously i'm screwed. We have about 45 people attending. I am in blatant violation of the birthday party rules. I just called the location now to see if we can book an extra room.
We tried SO hard to keep our list small but we just have a lot of close friends with kids. We don't even have big families. We suck.
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We are doing a small party. I don't want it to be overwhelming for us and especially not DD. We'll have it at our house, just immediate family and a few close friends.
ETA: we will have smaller parties from here on out.
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It was all I could handle. We had just moved, then I was out Of town for work for 2 weeks, and got home just before the holidays. His birthday felt like the last leg of a marathon. I just had to get through it.
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We just had ours on Sunday at our house. We had 26 people (family and friends) and had a local sandwich shop cater it with sandwiches and chips. We had beer, wine, soda, and of course, a cake for DD.
We just hung out and socialized since DD was one of two babies there. It was really more of a party for us. I did, however, go nuts with Sesame Street decorations. Maeve spent about half the party "talking" to the tablecloth with the characters on it. My heart melts...
21 people here. We just got family together to open gifts and eat cake.
I bought a large cake for all the guests and a small 6" cake for my daughter to smash and eat. I also made her a felt crown, tutu, and a "1" shirt to wear.
Our party was only family. I think if we had invited friends our daughter would have been too nervous to have fun with the gifts and cake.
The one thing I wish I had put together is a display of all her pictures throughout the year and how she's grown. Maybe next year.
Z's is next Sunday and I am so freaking pumped. If you had asked me 6 months ago if we were going to do a first bday I would have said no way, but I guess I have an inner party planner because as soon as I decided on a "little man" theme all bets were off
We invited a slew of people, but most of them are from waaaay out of town (as in plane rides away), but we didnt want to exclude them by not sending the great grandparents, etc. an invite. In the end Im guessing itll be about 30ish adults and 10ish kids (most about 1 year old).
We live in a condo so Im renting a room at a local daycare and having a puppet show that Z loves come and perform. Im keeping the food simple: catered sandwiches and sides, water, soda, beer, and of course cake and cookies.
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DD's b-day has turned into a much larger party than I intended. We invited family (out to first cousins) and friends who had invited us to their children's b-day parties. We don't have room at our house, so we are having it at a neighborhood restaurant with pizza buffet.
It's going to be super cute with a Winter One-derland theme (snowflakes and penguins) but I am never doing this again. So far we've had 49 RSVPs, yikes! It will be immediate family going forward, until she has actual friends to invite.
We tried for small, but it's kind of biggish.
We invited grandparents, aunts and uncles (only 2 will show), and then just DD's "friends" (kids we see often). Because each child will bring 2 parents along, we now have almost 40 people (10 babies) attending.
We're keeping it short though - only 2 hours. We'll have a ball pit and toys for kids to play with, provide finger foods for adults (and kids), and then do a cake thing. That's all.
We are doing a medium sized party.
We are holding it at our apartment complex's community room, since our apartment will not hold even 5 extra people.
I invited my parents, sister (and her hubby, 2 kids), my 4 best friends and sig others. Then FI invited every single person in his family - aunts, uncles, cousins, friends he sees once a year... without asking me first. It was a facebook event because it's super short notice (he's been bouncing back and forth with his ex on what weekends his son will be around, and there is no way I'd throw a party for baby without his brother there!).. so it's not like I can take them off the list since they'll still the get notification that they were invited.
FI's father's funeral is this coming weekend, and the weekend after is the party. FI is in no shape to even think about the party, so it's totally Mama's job at this point. Don't even get me started on it. I have a week to plan it now, and a ton more people coming than I thought. I planned on there being maybe 15 people, and now it looks more like 40... Good work, FI.. not.