2nd Birthday Parties 🎉

[JustinBobby]

Anyone planning their LO's 2nd birthday yet? I just looked at the calendar and realized it's 3 months away!

[marygracerich]

We have decided we are not having a party. We are either taking her to Sesame Place or to the Please touch museum in Philadelphia.
I may do dinner for a few close family members and cake on the actual day of her birthday because it's a Saturday but it will be just 10 or so people.

[smilesp]

[bethypoo83]

We're not doing a big party. Probably just lunch and cake with the family.

[emu0013]

Our family and friends would all have to travel in; so we are not doing them. We will actually be on vacation with my family for DD's.

[emu0013]

Our family and friends would all have to travel in; so we are not doing them. We will actually be on vacation with my family for DD's.

[obi]

We will probably just host a small-ish bbq. I wasnt originally going to do anything much but since DD will be getting all the attention soon, I think itd be nice to spend a day making a big fuss over C.

[honda13]

Planning on doing a small get together this year with immediate family. Although, our immediate family is about 15-20 people so it's not as small as I would like. We are getting dd a season pass for the local children's zoo. I figure it will be nice to take her there and get out of the house with a newborn.

[honda13]

Jan 17, 2017 10:00:33 GMT -5 McBgg21 said:

Jan 17, 2017 9:39:33 GMT -5 honda13 said:

Planning on doing a small get together this year with immediate family. Although, our immediate family is about 15-20 people so it's not as small as I would like.

Same for us. If we don't do a party then we'll have 3 groups of grandparents all coming to visit her at different times, so we'll probably try to get everyone out of the way at once via a causal get together.

Exactly! I hate scheduling all these people coming over. Like when she was a newborn and everyone wanted to visit. Jaysus just all come at once and leave me to get on with my life.

[hotcoconuts82]

Sttttaaaap it!!!!!! No, I refuse to think about that.


Also, my big kid turns 8 and is making her first communion before ds' s birthday. So, he's not on my radar yet. My BABY IS TURNING 8 WTF.

[robotpcr]

Likely I'll do a small casual get together for close local friends at our house on her actual birthday since it's a Saturday. And right after we have to go to California for a wedding so I'll probably throw a party at my MIL's house again. It's a nice way for the massive amount of family to see her. Though I might do it at a park nearby or something, we'll see. The theme will probably be trains.

[cosmicav]

I doubt that we will be doing something big. I think we will just let DS have some ice cream and probably take pictures. Maybe get him in a cute shirt. I am sure I will have emotions everywhere. We will also have a 2 month old about that time (and I will be going back to work after maternity leave around that time, too).

It's going to be a wild time in the Cosmic household in April, lol.

[laur1020]

I'm not ready for 2!!

[laur1020]

But seriously, I'll probably just do a small gathering with my parents and sisters. I will probably include my soon-to-be ex H, but he doesn't want to around my family, so we will see how that goes.

[honda13]

It seems we all pretty much agree to a small party for 2nd birthday. Which birthdays do you think should be big hooplas? 1, 5, and ? IDK, just something I have been thinking about.

[hotcoconuts82]

We did already pick up ds' s birthday present. This was deeply marked down at costco after Christmas.

[flyinghorses6]

I haven't even thought about this. With DD2 due in three weeks, I will be returning to work the week of Ks 2nd Birthday; it's also Mother's Day this year.

We will probably do something before I start back work; (just like cosmicav)

Whatever we do will be much smaller than last year. We won't have the money; and I know I won't feel like hosting a big event. Maybe we will do a pizza party or something along those lines. I'd rather invite friends than most family...so maybe it will be a party for the kids this year.

[linny12]

We'll probably do something like a cookout after church with a select group of family.

We have huge families,. For her 1st birthday there were 85 people in attendance, and that was just aunts uncles and first cousins. Not going to happen for every birthday.

But that leads to drama. Like we're really close with one of my uncles, we vacation together, h hangs out with him on the regular, and we get together at least once a week. But if we invite them then we feel like we need to invite all 85 since it's the same relation. Ugh!

[linny12]

And we just talked about it and we're inviting the 85 again. I'll be 35 weeks pregnant. Cue panic.

[cosmicav]

Jan 17, 2017 19:04:30 GMT -5 linny12 said:

And we just talked about it and we're inviting the 85 again. I'll be 35 weeks pregnant. Cue panic.

[CatLady]

Since we didn't have a party last year, I want to have some sort of event this year. I haven't decided what though, but I want to make a decision soon!

[hotcoconuts82]

Our parties are always the same size. It's always the same 25 family members.

[amylee545]

We'll be doing the same size birthday party as last year. We only invited our immediate family (so all our siblings, parents, and nieces/nephews) and we had 30 people. This year will be the exact same.. We're doing a "Two-dles" Mickey/Minnie theme since N is absolutely obsessed with MMC. It'll be from 2-4, so finger foods only instead of a big meal like last year... hot diggity dogs (pigs in a blanket), chip and dale's chips and dip, minnie bow tie pasta salad, Donald ducks cheese and quackers, Daisy's garden veggies and dip, and then Mickey Mouse cupcakes.... it sounds like I have this a lot more planned than I actually do lol. Pinterest as served me well.

[amylee545]

Jan 18, 2017 15:21:46 GMT -5 bwisco123 said:

Really cute amylee545! I want to steal all of your ideas lol

haha go for it!! These are all idea from Pinterest anyway!

[ker9171]

Can't decide between a camping theme or Mickey Mouse theme! Pinning ideas today. 😊

[hotcoconuts82]

So I'm thinking retro mickey mouse or vintage airplanes. Of course neither of those are readily available.

[lgsdesigner]

I have my older two kids planned but not Eli.
Thinking about maybe a party at a play cafe.

[mlbrooks]

I've decided (unless his interests drastically change) to do "monkey see, monkey do - our little monkey is turning 2". So a monkey theme.

[brittneysandra]

Honestly I've been going back-and-forth trying to decide what I want to do but I think we will just do grandparents and pizza.. but who knows I'll probably change my mind later lol

[lilbarn]

We're just going to have a BBQ lunch and cake that family members and a few friends are told they can come if they like but it's not a party. There was about 25 people last year and I really don't want that again but it was pretty much all family.
Most of our family lives at least 2 hours away so I'm hoping if we don't make a big deal of it they won't feel obligated. We'll probably see some of them the week before anyway, my cousin has a son only 1 week older.

This could all change though.