First Birthday
My son's first birthday is on May 11th, which is a Tuesday. For his party obviously I'm gonna decorate, do this whole big thing. But it's like for one, do I do it the weekend before and that's Mother's Day or wait a whole week and do the weekend after? Also I want him to wake up and walk out to a nice big decorated surprise on his birthday. But I don't wanna keep all the decorations up. So what are we doing? Are we decorating twice? And just not going as big the first time, but doing something special for him.
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I decorated my house for my son's first birthday but had his party somewhere else! I did one happy dude theme, I also had his party the weekend after his birthday!
I would personally do the party the following weekend and just keep the decorations up for a few days. It would be less than a week, it’s not that long.
I would do the party before. Keep as many of the decorations either up or put them to the side for decorations on actual birthday. If you did decide to have his birthday party Mother’s Day weekend… you could do something for the mom that comes. Like giving them a flower and a note as appreciation for their hard-work.
My son’s birthday was yesterday. We had his birthday party two weeks ago in our home state. We had already planned to be there and all of our family is there. Our theme was Our Little Sunshine is One. I just kept decorations and decorated at home the day before yesterday for him to walk out to and also setup a place for him to take pictures with a smash cake.
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