1st Birthday Ideas

We just had a lunch with friends and family. Didn't really do anything major as he's too young to really understand, he liked having lots of new toys to play with lol

I made him a mickey mouse cake which I was very proud of for my first ever attempt at cake making and decorating!

And the cake was good too .

For both my boys we had a BBQ with family and a few of our friends.

Lovely, thanks for the ideas ladies.. I'm beginning to think I might hold out on the big parties until she's a bit older!! We might just make it a family affair and invite a couple of her 'friends'... but have the grandies (well my mum, raoul's mum and great grandma) Still I would like her to have a cake so I'm still searching for ideas

Gorgeous Cake btw, and man Miss Ella is cute!!!!! I'm not talented enough (more I lack the patience) to make a cake LOL but luckily my MIL is a chef and is really good at cakes so might give me a hand in that department

I am looking forward to Phoenix turning one. My parents run a cake business (mainly supermarket stuff) but Mum was always awesome at making our birthday cakes (from the Australian Women's Weekly) and this time it will be no different, I will be hitting her up for help.

As Phoenix turns 1 on Jan 4th, it may be difficult to celebrate due to everyone being away, so I am sure it will be delayed a lil this year.

for sarah we just had a family dinner ( her birthday is 4 days before xmas so i made her first xmas a really big deal)

ummmm unfortunatly dh has a big family and there all already asking what time they should come around for the "party" so were having a lunch that day aparently

Hi I'm new but I was googling and went right through signing up just so I could post on here! haha

My son's first birthday is now only a week away but I'v been planning for months. I slightly tend to disagree with the whole "they'll never remember it so who cares" kind of thing because I'm only 20 but I can tell you now I don't remember even one of my birthdays! You can't guarentee what they will remember but you can certainly hope that they will enjoy it at the time.

For food I'm having things like fruit kebabs, sandwiches cut with a cookie cutter to make them more festive, cocktail sausages, fish fingers, sausage rolls, those potato pom pom's and savouries etc. generally nice and healthy for the lil ones.

For his cake its just a giant one with blocks on tha end spelling his name but i was in no way going to attempt that so I'm having it made.

For the lil ones because theres a lot we went right through from antenatal together we're just letting them have free play in his room because it has a gate with supervision also a bubble machine as something exciting for them its so easy and babies love lil things like that!

But my best tips would be try to make it really relaxd I've hired highchairs for the lil ones that will be eating from plunket for only $5 each for the weekend so that you dont have to worry to much about mess parents can set them up with food and they're going to be ohk not running around. I brought cheap sippy cups for each lil one and just printed out their name and glued it on with ribbon thats going around his cake so its all tied in!

I'm also having a guest book that i hope everyone will write in this birthday and all his other big ones like his 5th etc. to keep safe and give to him on his 21st because some of those people may not be around by then! I'v made a dvd disc with his photos from his first year on it to it was really easy (literally 3mins) to burn them all on to dvd and its a nice thing to have in the background.

My best advice pick a theme it doesnt mean you have to go all out but atleast then you've got some direction for a cake or decorations and things then you're in control of how much of a theme you really use!

Hope this helps its only some of my sons birthday but the best I can really remember for now!

oooh i like the guest book thing
good idea

Thanks for your ideas everyone..
I am going to start planning Keziah's birthday as of tomorrow... I can't wait!!!

Going to have a few friends and their babes come and of course the extended family (MIL, mum & MAYBE my dad if i can wrangle it) and we have our own motely crew that need to be accounted for Nothing big, just something small and quaint