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Tami 
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Posted: 13 April 2006 at 1:41pm |
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My son is 9 months old and is very active as in nearly walking.Hes crawling and walking holding on to everything and talking.I have no idea what to do for his first birthday.There will be about 50 or so people but i want to do sumfing that he will enjoy but something thats not gonna cost me a arm an a leg because im teen mother with not much money.I was thinking maybe a b.b.q or something but thats boring.Does anyone have any ideas or would you like to share what you guys done for your childs fist birthday as its a very special day
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Posted: 13 April 2006 at 1:46pm |
My nephews parents threw a bbq party for him and invited family and friends it was a really good time  bbqs dont have to be boring we have them alot spesh at parties
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Posted: 13 April 2006 at 2:05pm |
i,m having james at the pub(its not as bad as it sounds) upstairs in the faction room(not being charged cause i worked there) but i wanted a bbq but james b/day is in winter so it will be to cold 
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Posted: 13 April 2006 at 2:11pm |
If you have a big backyard may be you can hire some slides and swings and jumping castles to keep the kids entertained....only ofcourse if there are other small kids coming to your BBQ. A frind of mine hires a clown who kept the kids busy as well as the parents....I must admit was fun.
I am confused as well, hubby says no use doing a big thing because she wont remember much of it.....but still it is her 1st birthday ever ...right??? 
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Posted: 13 April 2006 at 2:29pm |
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We hired Maya's daycare centre for the day (Saturday) and had about 50 or so people, mostly my friends and their kids as Maya didn't have any friends as such at that age.
We just did finger foods like fairy bread, sausage rolls etc. The kids loved it.
One thingw e did spend $$$ on for her first birthday was her present - Willie and I went halves on buying her a greenstone. It cost us $280 but it is something she can keep forever, and we wanted her firstbirthday present to be special.
problem is now we will have to do the same for the twins... two of everything!
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Posted: 13 April 2006 at 3:10pm |
I can see that you are very excited about your twins..... Emma. I think it will be a fun experience!!
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Posted: 13 April 2006 at 7:09pm |
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Caitlyns birthday is in winter as well so no bbq, for her 1st we hired (well it didnt cost us anything) our church play group hall, so we had a big room and a kitchen to prepare the food (fairy bread,sausage rolls etc) and we could get the toys out-so there were dolls and slides etc -it was great! she had a very cool time
Next year (for her 5th) im going to have a BIG party at home and either hire old mcdonalds travelling farm or get a bouncy castle
What month is ur son 1?july?
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Posted: 13 April 2006 at 8:11pm |
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For Jake's second and taine's first, I'm planning to do face painting. I used to do it to fundraise in taumarunui when I went to japan for school, so I'm not too bad at it.
With Jake's first, I made a cake and just invited people and their kids over. I gave the older kids a disposable camera each and they went around shooting pics, and gave the smaller kids some balloons, bubble mix and stickers. they loved it.
Simple things may sound boring, but they will be what your baby will love. Anotehr idea someone on this board had, which I stole, was to have everyone ath the party sign a book to say happy birthday. I put the book on a table with a bunch of felts and people drew pictures and stuff. The book is quite nice.
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Posted: 13 April 2006 at 8:19pm |
Hehe Liz, good idea, hey? 
We had mostly adults there as I figure the first birthday is us parents surving the first year of parenthood, the rest of the parties can be for the kids
Ella had two of her friends there (invited a couple more but they were sick) and I borrowed a ball pool from my friend.. the kids just played in that and ran around a little bit, they had lots of fun. Basically we just left them to it and they had a ball (ha.ha )
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Posted: 14 April 2006 at 9:35pm |
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So im guessing i will do something easy..we got quite a big backyard as we have jus moved an YAY now baby got his own room!!!!!I like the idea of the book thing sounds great as they can look back at it when their older an stuff maybe just take a picture of every one thats goes to the birthday and have the picture in the middle of the page that way the kid might be able to remember who was their and every1 would have their own page to write an draw on i think that would be great for the little ones!!!If anyone has anymore great ideas about first birthdays plz let me no.Ive kinda got an idea of what to do now
Thanks a lot every1!!!!!!
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Posted: 14 April 2006 at 9:42pm |
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for Brianna's first birthday we had a nice luch at my sisters house with all the family it was great and didn't cost to much and Brianna had a fun day and got spoilt and i think that all that matters.
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Posted: 15 April 2006 at 7:29pm |
For Blair's first b'day we had it at mcDonalds. It was good becuase the play ground it right there and we got our own little room to have lunch and open prezzies it was a good day.
1 only thing we didn't have the mess to clean up we just walked away it was great lol.
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Posted: 16 April 2006 at 8:10am |
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For Kiya's first birthday, we had a teddybear's picnic afternoon tea at a playground... with watermelon and cake to eat and lots of water to drink.
For Josiah's first birthday, we're meeting up with family at a hot pool for a shared lunch picnic and a swim (he loves the water, so it'll be like a big bath for him!)
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What To Do For First Birthdays
