Alright, for those of you with more than 1 kiddo - 1st birthday parties

coasterqueen wrote: I have to know, did you go all out with your second (or third, etc) kid's 1st birthday party like you did with your first? Assuming you did with your first .

We didn't go ALL out, but went overboard for sure with Kylie's 1st birthday party and DH is dreading the thought of doing that again with Megan. We won't be able to have a huge gathering at Busch Stadium like we did for Kylie (as well as a seperate big birthday party) because there are no games in March (BUMMER!) but I still want to have a huge party for her inviting extended family. We normally only invite extended family to the 1st bday party and just close family for subsequent birthday parties.

So what did you do or going to do?

moped replied: We ddin't go all out for jack - just a few family and that was about it. I doubt we ever will untiil he has a bunch of freinds from school

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: We had Katy's at our house and there were about 50 people. Matt's was also at our house but we know way less people in CO so there were only I think 10 and they were all immediate family.

kimberley replied: well i tried to. had a huge bash (rented a hall) for Jacob's first and invited all family from both sides. did the same for James and not many showed up as they did at Jacobs. by the time we had Jade, we were kinda tight on funds and only invited immediate family to a backyard bbq. will probably do a small one for Kaleigh also. i find the more kids i have, the less interested the extended family becomes

C&K*s Mommie replied: We did not do too terribly much for either one. We were talked out of doing what we had wanted to do for Christian's 1st, and that experience helped us with Kellie's 1st. I am happy that we did not do too much, other than having a party at the park for both~ with family & friends. I have many ideas about what I am wanting to do for both birthdays from now on. So I am trying to coordinate the ideas with their ages. KWIM?

kit_kats_mom replied: I was kinda feeling bad about this. Katherine's party was a large gathering of family and friends. Lauren's was way smaller. In fact, only my mom and DH, big sis and I. That's mainly because we moved away from all of our friends though. If we were still in Tallahassee, it would have been a bigger soiree.

coasterqueen replied:
Well I can see that. I think my DH would wish something like that would happen so we don't have to do it again. But since we don't have that issue, I would feel so bad if we didn't so something similar for Megan. I already feel bad we can't do the whole ballgame thing for her like we did Kylie, but I'm thinking of doing a joint one for them somewhere between their birthdays.

MomToJade&Jordan replied:
We will be in the same boat for Jordan. We don't know anyone here so it will probably be a small thing.

jem0622 replied: Oldest DS - big 1st bday with gmas/gpas and some close friends

Youngest DS - brother/mom/dad

DDs - brothers/mom/dad/gparents/aunt&uncle

All in all, not a lot of fuss for them. But my oldest DS was very overwhelmed b/c our close friends all had kids with them too.

Jamison'smama replied: Same boat here---Jamison had a really big first party--at our house but we went all out with decorations and invites. Jack's birthday was on the 30th so we actually celebrated with family over the CHristmas holiday. I did decide that I really needed to do an actual birthday party with invitations and a theme. It will be more casual--not having tons of food and less people but for scrapbook purposes I went ahead and caved for a party--it's on the 14th.

CantWait replied: Way worse with the second. Omgosh I can't even explain it. With Robbie, I still didn't know dh's parents that well, so I just had a small party with my best friend and my family. With Anthony, 9 years after dh and I were together, I thought it would be a good idea since we were only visiting for a short time to get both our families together somewhere nutral, so we went to a park and had a HUGE BBQ with tons of food. His family is really big, so in total we had about 25 people there with enough food to feed a couple hundred. I wish I were exaggerating.

My3LilMonkeys replied: We did not go all out for Brooke's 1st - 20 ppl at max. We will probably go a little larger for Madison's 1st b/c in May we can have it in the yard - our house is small and Brooke is stuck with a winter birthday.

coasterqueen replied:
I could believe it, we had over that many people at Kylie's because our families are huge. But it was nice because it was at the park so no mess at my house and we just invited everyone to have a picnic (bring their own food) with us then cake and ice cream. With Megan's birthday in the winter (March) we'll have to have that many people in our house. Not sure how that would go and we'd have to provide food i guess.

3_call_me_mama replied: We went all out with both. They only turn one once rigth !? But kathleen had hers at our house adn Cameron's was at teh Daycare cetner that i used to own. Same people were invited ot both and a few more came to kathleen's simply cause more of our friends had kids than before!

remtana replied: We had family and friends at the 1st b-day party, and just family at the 2nd one. This year, we will be having one DD's 1st and another DD's 5th at the same party, because thier b-days are a week apart.

I am inviting friends to the 1st b-day party (that are not usually invited to the other's b-days, except the 1), but somehow let them know they don't have to bring anything, becuase we are also having Montana's 5th, and they haven't been invited to any of hers since her 1st. I don't want them to think that they have to bring her something just becuase thier parties are on the same day, and they haven't been invited to any of her other b-days. I am not sure how to do that yet.

Angela :