Turning 5 Three Days After Christmas What Would You Do?

We have Christas here, then 2 weeks later is our twins' birthday and 2 weeks after that is our older's birthday. The weather is HORRIBLE here this time of the year. We usually have a tiny party for those local kids who are able to get to the bowling alley or community center or whatnot. Then we do have a larger party in the summer and call it their "1/2 birthday" party. We cut the cake & cup cakes in 1/2 and only give 1/2 scoops of ice cream to go along with the theme.

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A good friend of mine was a "Christmas Baby" and her parents celebrated her 1/2 birthday every year and it was great! That way her friends were around and we could play outside and in the pool. One year her mom did the "Very Merry Un-birthday" theme from Alice In Wonderland and I still remember it! It was a Mad Hatter tea party with crazy decorations and costumes welcome. My vote is to let her have the "unique" party that isn't on her birthday!

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My oldest sons birthday is Dec 3, my cousins daughter was born On Christmas. We usually still have a full birthday with No Christmas decorations...but for our son we have usually let him have either a "Half" birthday or a special sleep over with friends and pool party in the summer. I have never liked it or felt it was right that even when My son was little so many people would give him one present and call it Birthday and Christmas, so I have always gone out of my way to be sensitive to the fact that he gets a birthday.

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My birthday is the day after Christmas. Parties during the holidays were hard because people were on vacation and left town. Sometimes we'd have a party early on a weekend early in December.
I've thought about celebrating it 6 months later in June (but then everyone's out of school on summer break), but never got around to moving it. We just like going out to dinner on my birthday now.

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When they are that little, personally I think a 'half birthday' thing in summer is just confusing. My son's birthday is the week BEFORE Christmas, so I know where you're coming from.

We have always had his party in December- I offered a summer half birthday once, and he told me he really LIKES having his birthday when it is and didn't want to change it!

Our last party was a Nightmare Before Christmas party (age 10) and since we already had the Christmas decorations up, we also put up Halloween stuff and had a Jack Skellington cake and all the boys wore their Halloween costumes and played games like 'wrap the mummy'. It was super fun.

Just call up a few moms and figure out a good date that works for you. Remember, no matter when you have the party or what you do, there will always be a few kids who can't make it. I would just do it the weekend after Christmas or you could try and squeeze it in the week before- but after will likely be easier for most people.

Have fun!

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Definitely have it on or near her birthday. My birthday is exactly 2 weeks after Christmas, but we always had a birthday party. If my sons were invited to a birthday the week after Christmas, we would go -it's a perfect time -everyone is out of school and you could do it at some sort of play place. If there's snow, you could have hot chocolate and doughnuts at a park and a "build a snowman" contest or sledding.

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My daughter will be 5 on 12/29. I make sure it ts TOTALLY seperate from Christmas. If we are having it at home- all signs of Christmas are gone before her party. I want it to be "her holiday" We just recently moved and this year we will be back with our family for her b-day. She has requested a skating party and a pinata so that is what we will be doing on her actual birthday. I also agree that half year parties are confusing. I dont think think it has to be anything over the top as long as it is seperated from the other holidays. Good luck

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DS was born on Christmas day. He will be five this year. We did a pool party on his half birthday this year. Went great (it was the first time he asked for a party) and we plan on doing it again next summer.
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My b-day is 4 days before Christmas. When I was younger I actually wanted to celebrate it when it was warmer out. Ask you son what he wants to do, I think he is old enough to make that decision. If he wants to do it in the summer than just have cake with the grandparents on his real b-day.

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Lots of Christmas babies... Ha HA. I am the 23rd of Dec. and my son turns 5 on New Years Eve, the 31st! So, as for as me growing up I always celebrated my half birthday. It was too hard to find friends around the holidays with all the traveling they did. Much easier to meet up in the summer time.

For my son, so far we have been in the same boat. We even have a hard time getting Grandma and Grandpa to show up for his birthday since it is such a big drinking (I mean celebrated.. haha) holiday. Aunts and Uncles are no where to be found since none of them have kids. Pretty sad! huh! So, this year we decided to heck with all of them. We are letting our son pick what he wants to do for the day. If he wants to go bowling we will go bowling; if he wants to go see a movie then a movie it is; there is also this indoor water park here in town that he keeps asking to go to so we may even attempt that! I say let your daughter decide how she wants to spend her day and follow her lead with it.

Oh ya.. I did say tho that if we had a ton of snow this year for his bday I would call up all his buddies and have a snow party.

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My daughter turns 5 on the 17th and we decided to do it next month. This is the first time we are going to move it. She is ok with it because she gets to have in her words "3 Birthdays." I know a lot of people say not to move it, but it's working out for us.
Right now she is in preschool and she had her birthday party in class last friday. The day of her birthday we are going to dinner as a family (plus gma,gpa, and her uncle) to where ever she wants to eat at and mommy and daddy are going to be the only ones giving her a small gift. Next month we are going to do her birthday party (depending on the weather) it may be outside/inside. The theme we are doing is Alice In Wonderland, "Happy Un-Birthday" tea party, just like in the movie!
Good luck!

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mine is 4 days after christmas and I always had mine on my bday. partly cause my cousins was the next day and we did both of them together. the weekend after new years everyone will still be broke from christmas traveling and in some cases drinking to much. do a normal party and wait till she is 12 and start giving her the option most likely she will say the pool party cause she will get more presents if she waits. I was never big into theme parties so I cant help you there.

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if ur daughter is ok with it wait. summer is a good idea. my bday is in june and I always liked getting presents half way before christmas!

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I'm a New Year's eve baby, myself, and we always had my b-day on New Years or New Year's eve (my parents are not big party people at all, so they didn't care).

I like the idea of going iceskating or sledding; if there is an indoor skating place near you, they probably have a room you can rent for parties.

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My birthday is today, I have 3 kids with birthdays in December so we all got less gifts, not that it matters to me but I felt bad for the kids. I think the birthday is the day you were born and I was in the hospital on those days and celebrated their coming into the world then. Not in the summer or any other time. I just think it's a celebration of their life and so I tried to have a cake, etc. for the kids on that day. If you think a party in the summer is nice that's great but to me it's not the birthday. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this way.

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My daughter is Januray and fun birthday I did, was took the ornaments off the tree (but left the lights) and I put a party hat at the top, and put streamers around the tree and decorated with party favors. We did a 'winterwonderland' theme, with white princess cake (I made it with a barbie and used white frosting with glitter so it was shimmering). We ice skated, sledded then came in for a tea party princess style. It was great fun. I'm also a fan of making cupcakes and letting them decorate. I bought a plastic table cloth, and let them all sit on it and gave tubs of frosting and plastic knives, and decor and then when they were done, the whole thing went in the garbage. I also picked up princess dresses, tiarra's, wands after halloween and that was everyone's take home vs a goodie bag.

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My daughter's bday is 12/27 and we've always had her party on her bday. We never had trouble with attendees... I think parents were ready for kids to leave the house a while.

This year she turns 16 and it is on a Monday (Country club closed = no party that day) and with her schedule with cheer, it will be the first time ever that we've not had her party on her bday. I think we are heading to a beach somewhere to celebrate! We'll probably do a huge end of the year party since she will be moving from High school to Sr high school.

When she was 5, Toy Story was popular and she loved Jesse. We had a Toy Story bday at a local place with farm animals where the kids had a petting zoo, pony rides and hay mazes. I catered with BBQ and it was a hit! She was dressed like Jesse in her cowgirl outfit and boots. LOVED it.

I NEVER EVER and NEVER would consolidate her bday with Christmas. I have a separate area set aside with bday paper, bday theme. Her bday is her special day, no different if it were any other time of the year. HER day.

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I would say a few weeks after sounds good. I winter wonderland theme would be cute.

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My son was born on December 22.
We have usually included his birthday party w/our family holidy events.
However, in our family, we ALSO celebrated half birthdays,
during which we did lots of good stuff, including special events,
gifts, etc.

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My daughter's bday is 5 days after after christmas , she's turning 9 and we've never had a friends party for her because everyone is on christmas vacation, we've tried to put together something but it never worked out.

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Weekend after New Year's. People are likely to be around then and welcome an activity.

No idea on themes. We usually have our parties at party places, so I don't have to think much about themes.

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