What to Do on New Year's Eve with an Almost One Year Old

When we get together for a movie night, fight night, or game night, I bring my portable play yard and a sheet/blanket for my son. We set the play yard up in another room and when it's bedtime, I go in there a few minutes and do our bedtime routine (change diaper, change clothes, sing a song, give him kisses, then turn off the light). He sleeps just fine. When it's time to go home, I carry him to the car and have him in his carseat so he goes right back to sleep while my husband deals with packing the play yard. You CAN still have a life!

I would go to your friend's house or have them come to yours. We always took our daughter out to people's houses for the evening and just put her in her pack n play at bedtime. She would sleep until we were ready to go home and then go to bed when we got there. I am a firm believer that you shouldn't have to be a prisoner in your own home just because you have a child. If there is a separate room where your one year old can go to sleep at your friend's house, then by all means go and have a great time! I am lucky enough this year that my mom is in town visiting and has offered to babysit, but we're going to a friend's house and if my mom weren't here, we would still go and just put my daughter to bed there. Happy New Year! Go have an enjoyable evening with friends. :-)

Maybe your family can get together with the other couple and have a big game night, both of the one year olds can go to sleep and everyone else can play games and celebrate.

We're having a game night with another family. We've done that since our son was born, & we have a great time.

It's a personal preference thing... but we have friends coming here. We got a Wii and I'm sure we'll play that and other board games. It will be low key... wanna come? hahaha

Happy New Year...

if it were me, i'd invite friends over. that way you can be sociable, and you will be in familiar territory if your babe should wake up (or not want to go to sleep at all, haha) and need you with him.

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I would stay home. You could even let your oldest invite a friend over to make it special for her.