Tell me your LOs birthday bash details

rainedrops117 · July 2013

Anyone who knows Hawaiian culture, they do it big first birthdays. So I was plagued from the start when I married DH. I'm trying to embrace it but I just keep thinking of the headache of it all.... Please Help me get on board with it. Tell me cute exciting details of your party plans??

99frontier · July 2013

We aren't doing anything major, but after all the normal cake and presents stuff, we are going outside and playing in some water!! Since we don't have a pool, we'll set up a couple of sprinklers and slip-n-slides, have wagons full of water balloons, and have a bunch of squirt guns!! (DS LOVES the water so he'll get to enjoy a lot of this stuff too!)

Now that I think about it, I don't think that's the kind of details you were asking for....oops!

SJandVA · July 2013

We are having a BBQ at my parents house. It's going to be a double party day for my family. My cousin and his wife had their baby a day before V was born and his party is in the morning.
Anyway, my dad will do the food. I like doing small details for parties and our theme is owls. I am doing favors for everyone, a magnet and a small jar of candy.
To display pictures my 5yo is going to paint a picture of a tree.
I'll have guests sign the Happy Birthday Dr Seuss book. We did this for DD1.
We might do a few more things but that's what I've got so far.

SJandVA · July 2013

Sharona1700:
What do Hawaiians do for first birthdays? I didn't know your H was Hawaiian, lucky you! I wasn't sure why you went to visit there a few months ago, but I just thought you guys were super lucky and lived this fab life!Koreans do a big thing as well. The first birthday is called a dohl. It is complete with rice cakes as party favors, Korean traditional costumes, called hanbok, and a Fortune telling game!The fortune telling game is called a dohljabi and you set out various items and see which one your LO chooses. I'm not sure what we'll put out yet, but traditionally there is a string for long life, book for smarts, money for wealth, you get the picture. Now people out items that will tell your future occupation. We might put out a ball for athlete, microphone for entertainer, stethoscope for doctor, something like that.I guess that's it. We're having it at a Korean restaurant and they're going to do a lot of the decorations, which is fine by me. nbsp;

The fortune telling game sounds neat, kind of like Tinker Bell.

rainedrops117 · July 2013

Sharona1700:
What do Hawaiians do for first birthdays? I didn't know your H was Hawaiian, lucky you! I wasn't sure why you went to visit there a few months ago, but I just thought you guys were super lucky and lived this fab life!
Koreans do a big thing as well. The first birthday is called a dohl. It is complete with rice cakes as party favors, Korean traditional costumes, called hanbok, and a Fortune telling game!
The fortune telling game is called a dohljabi and you set out various items and see which one your LO chooses. I'm not sure what we'll put out yet, but traditionally there is a string for long life, book for smarts, money for wealth, you get the picture. Now people out items that will tell your future occupation. We might put out a ball for athlete, microphone for entertainer, stethoscope for doctor, something like that.
I guess that's it. We're having it at a Korean restaurant and they're going to do a lot of the decorations, which is fine by me.

wow sounds amaze balls! Love the cool fortune telling game. I've never been to a Korean traditional event except a friend got married and wore the traditional wedding garb. It was neat! I hope you take lots of pics and share!

My DH is Hawaiian and we have a home in Hawaii. Were renting it out to family so I guess it's nice to be able to go back and still be able to stay there. As for the party it's of course called a luau (duh). But apparently way back when a child's life wasn't celebrated until the first year. Since apparently so many died before a year. There's nothing extra special about the luau except it seems everyone who's everyone seems to be invited! I went to DH nephews 1st luau when we were there in Feb and there was 250 ppl!!! That is NOT an exaggeration either. We already have family flying in from of town and from Hawaii for Koa's luau. Eek!

rainedrops117 · July 2013

99frontier:
We aren't doing anything major, but after all the normal cake and presents stuff, we are going outside and playing in some water!! Since we don't have a pool, we'll set up a couple of sprinklers and slip-n-slides, have wagons full of water balloons, and have a bunch of squirt guns!! (DS LOVES the water so he'll get to enjoy a lot of this stuff too!)
Now that I think about it, I don't think that's the kind of details you were asking for....oops!

Your Koa's birthday bash sounds like my kind of party!! The kids will have so much fun. How many ppl are you inviting?

rainedrops117 · July 2013

SJandVA:
We are having a BBQ at my parents house. It's going to be a double party day for my family. My cousin and his wife had their baby a day before V was born and his party is in the morning. Anyway, my dad will do the food. I like doing small details for parties and our theme is owls. I am doing favors for everyone, a magnet and a small jar of candy. To display pictures my 5yo is going to paint a picture of a tree. I'll have guests sign the Happy Birthday Dr Seuss book. We did this for DD1. We might do a few more things but that's what I've got so far.

i might have to steal that "guest signing" idea. . I didn't even think about that. Plus on a book that can be read later. Genius! I love owls... It's going to be so adorbs!

SJandVA · July 2013

Island_Breezie:
SJandVA:
We are having a BBQ at my parents house. It's going to be a double party day for my family. My cousin and his wife had their baby a day before V was born and his party is in the morning.
Anyway, my dad will do the food. I like doing small details for parties and our theme is owls. I am doing favors for everyone, a magnet and a small jar of candy.
To display pictures my 5yo is going to paint a picture of a tree.
I'll have guests sign the Happy Birthday Dr Seuss book. We did this for DD1.
We might do a few more things but that's what I've got so far.
i might have to steal that "guest signing" idea. . I didn't even think about that. Plus on a book that can be read later. Genius! I love owls...  It's going to be so adorbs!

You should totally do the book signing thing. It will be really cool since you have so many guests.

RNbock2 · July 2013

Sharona1700:
What do Hawaiians do for first birthdays? I didn't know your H was Hawaiian, lucky you! I wasn't sure why you went to visit there a few months ago, but I just thought you guys were super lucky and lived this fab life!
Koreans do a big thing as well. The first birthday is called a dohl. It is complete with rice cakes as party favors, Korean traditional costumes, called hanbok, and a Fortune telling game!
The fortune telling game is called a dohljabi and you set out various items and see which one your LO chooses. I'm not sure what we'll put out yet, but traditionally there is a string for long life, book for smarts, money for wealth, you get the picture. Now people out items that will tell your future occupation. We might put out a ball for athlete, microphone for entertainer, stethoscope for doctor, something like that.
I guess that's it. We're having it at a Korean restaurant and they're going to do a lot of the decorations, which is fine by me.

This sounds awesome. I like things that are rooted in tradition.

We are doing a joint b-day party for Finn. My best friend's son is 5 days older than Finn, so we are doing them together in her back yard. We will have a baby pool, sprinklers, cupcakes, etc.

Now, I just need to figure out how to make a dairy free smash cake for Finnegan.

99frontier · July 2013

Just family and a couple of friends so 25-30 including the kids! I think I'd have a panic attack if I were expecting 250 people...or anything close to that amount!!!

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