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By: Birthday tradions | Mayasilver

Birthday tradions | Mayasilver — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:16:14 +0000

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By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:35:52 +0000

Balloons? That is my new tradition. How magical to wake up to balloons!! But, for us, no matter what happens or where we are, the boys get woken up to a breakfast treat (usually because it’s their absolute favorite except for that one year that it was a really stressful birthday eve and I had to make do with picking up a processed cinnamon roll from the gas station) with the appropriate number of candles and the happy b-day song. It’s the most intimate and special “happy birthday” of the day.

By: RookieMom Heather

RookieMom Heather — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:13:22 +0000

I am loving reading these suggestions. Streamers are indeed a GO. I might also go crazy and wake him up with a cupcake in bed. Unless I’m tending to an infant or something.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:42:01 +0000

I generally love traditions, celebrations and holidays. My husband, on the other hand, thinks that they are frivolous and self-indulgent, especially birthdays. I’m not sure what that will mean for our children. We usually celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, Valentines, New Years etc. by making a special effort to be ‘nice’ and accommodating of one another, and sometimes a day out together. I would imagine we will extend that tradition to our kids’ birthdays.

But the streamer doorway is kind of too cute to pass up…

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:40:03 +0000

We have so many traditions in store for our kiddos! Waking up with a room full of balloons, special pancake breakfast, some place wild and crazy for lunch (think Chuck E. Cheese), and they get to pick dinner and dessert to enjoy with our big family (how we refer to grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.) A trip to the toy store to choose a gift (this is also special one-on-one time with mom and dad) and its a wrap!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:56:32 +0000

My grandmother always did a candy pie for everyone’s birthday (and with 5 children and 10 grandchildren there were a LOT of candy pies). But it’s not your average pie like you might think.
She used a box and tied individual strings to a variety of candy bars (her arsenal usually included kit kats, snickers, mounds, etc.). Then she poked each string through wrapping paper which she then used to cover the top opening of the box. Everyone would grab a random string (except for the birthday boy/girl – their string was labeled with their name), and on command, pulled! It was so fun to see what kind of candy you pulled out! And the bonus for the birthday person was that their string not only had candy tied to it, but a slew of other gifts tied together on an endless piece of string.

So fun! And I plan on keeping that tradition for birthdays when we start our family!

By: Bullgrit

Bullgrit — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:51:02 +0000

The only real tradition — thing we do every birthday — is to release balloons into our boys’ rooms. They wake up and find a dozen or two balloons either floating from the ceiling or bouncing around the floor. (Helium or air filling depends on whether fans are on.)

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:58:44 +0000

We greet the birthday boy in his room with a cupcake that he is allowed to eat in bed (violating every rule we normally have about sweets and eating not in the kitchen). And if the party is different from the actual birthday – we always save at least one small gift to be opened on the actual birthday.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:14:11 +0000

So many birthday traditions in my house growing up- birthday child picks the dinner menu, leftover cake for breakfast the next day, handmade cards from the other sibs, etc. I just hosted MY son’s first birthday, and I was so much fun thinking of future traditions we will have: http://vtmamateurs.com/2012/02/23/super-sweet-1st-birthday/

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:27:02 +0000

Fun to hear these ideas/traditions… My two kiddos have the same exact bday (3 years apart), so I will have to lay the traditions and extra-specialness on thick in year’s to come!

By: AKD

AKD — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:09:04 +0000

Because my mom is Swedish, our bday tradition when I was a kid involved being woken up with singing and a special tray in bed with the Swedish flag (we had a real miniature flag on a little stand), hot chocolate, and a few special presents or cards to open in bed.
In Sweden it is typical to have your whole family burst into your room singing at the top of their lungs. After you are grown and no longer living at home, relatives take pleasure in calling super early on the phone to sing to you.
The year that my husband remembered this tradition and brought me a tray in the morning with a little handmade flag printed from the internet and taped onto a popsicle stick… warmed my heart like no expensive or fancy gift could.

By: Wendy Copley

Wendy Copley — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:24:38 +0000

Oh also — sprinkles! I put sprinkles on everything that won’t be completely gross: cereal, toast, applesauce.

I like birthdays!