Is it weird not to have a 1st birthday party?
Just looking for opinions and alternate suggestions here I guess.
Our circle is small. Like the circle is a pinpoint kind of small. It's my husband and I, our 11 year old, and our soon to be one year old. I'm no contact with my family, and my husbands family lives overseas. I have a best friend, and my husband has some guys he's friendly with at work.
There's no one I'd automatically think to invite to a party... We could invite his work friends but I'm pretty sure it'd feel like an obligation to them because they don't really know our daughter and haven't spent time with us as a family. My best friend would come and bring her kiddo. But that would genuinely be it.
I'm struggling with this. My life looked very different when my oldest was one, and a big birthday with games and a cake smash was practically a given. Because of my hangups about not having a traditional party, I'm having some sort of mental block thinking about alternatives. Of course we can do cake and celebrate her at home with the 4 of us. But I'd like to take her somewhere special for the occasion. I know she won't remember, but we will, and when she's grown she's not going to have the same pictures to look back on as her brother and that really bothers me for whatever reason. Maybe it sounds unimportant. But I'm looking for suggestions for an alternative way to make her day special, an activity, or somewhere fun you'd take your one year olds.