It’s our little guy’s birthday month! When we first learned his due date at my prenatal appointment, the common response was; poor kid’s birthday will be overlooked by the holidays. However, it really is a fun season to have a birthday. Here are few reasons why.
- It’s a festive time of year. Everyone is a good mood, lots of cookies, fun activities, and our little guy’s birthday becomes part of the excitement. Even at the hospital where I delivered him, the nurses swaddled him in a Christmas stocking. It was adorable!
- We celebrate his birthday with the whole family. We have family near and far, but we all gather for the holidays. Unlike his sister’s summer birthday parties with a few friends and relatives, our little guy has cousins, second cousins, third cousins, aunts and uncles, great aunts, and grandparents wishing him a happy birthday.
- While he doesn’t get presents at other times of the year, he gets a ton of presents during his birthday month. Instead of a one day event, his birthday becomes a month – long celebration from meet ups with different family and friends in December, which is pretty fun for a kid.
- There is potential for fantastic birthday parties. I wondered how to pull off a fun winter birthday party as our little guy gets older. (We have only had small family parties so far). Planning around potentially bad weather can be tricky, but we will just have to embrace the cold and snow. A friend had a birthday party planned in December for her little boy when a snowstorm hit. Instead of cancelling the party, she changed the theme and location, and they had an epic snowball and sledding party instead. The kids loved the party, and talk about it still.
- It’s easy to get caught up in the rushing and craziness of the holidays. Knowing we also have his birthday to celebrate doesn’t add to the stress, but helps us take a step back and relax with our little guy on his birthday. It’s a like a brief time-out from the holidays, and then we jump back in to celebrations and parties.
The most adorable part of having a kiddo born during the holidays – our little guy thinks the greeting we give to family and friends is “Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday” because he hears it so often!
blogger / apricot / 439 posts
Awwww, they swaddled him in a stocking? That is so adorable!! I have a December birthday and I’ve got to admit that I’ve always hated it being so close to Christmas. I hope your little guy has a better attitude toward it than I did – ha!
blogger / grape / 99 posts
Since I am a week late and could possibly be having this baby on Christmas, I really appreciate this post! I’ve been feeling bad about the possibility of a holiday birthday.
persimmon / 1111 posts
My husband and I are both holiday babies. It can be great as long as family remembers 1) separate gifts, 2) birthday wrapping paper for birthday gifts and Christmas wrapping paper for Christmas gifts, 3) Christmas cookies are not birthday cake and 4) no spend January is fundamentally unfair to January kids (by sister would get gifts in June and I’d get a lecture on fiscal responsibility).
blogger / apricot / 482 posts
The stocking! That is adorable
blogger / kiwi / 588 posts
My daughter’s birthday is NYE so every year she’ll get fireworks! There’s perks to having a birthday near the holidays.
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
charlie hates his december birthday because he is very impatient and it is the last one of the year! but i told him he will like it when he stays younger longer than everyone else when he’s older!
persimmon / 1345 posts
I have a bday close to Christmas and I hated it growing up because
1)all my “bday cards” were Christmas cards
2)all my wrapping paper were Christmas wrapping paper
cherry / 133 posts
My birthday is on NYE. I have found there are some things you have to embrace to enjoy your birthday when it falls on a holiday. For example, I’ve never had a birthday party. They always morph into NYE parties. Also, dinner out to celebrate has to be booked months in advance and has a significant upcharge. However, the day has a lot of significance for most people which makes it special and I always say “Auld Lang Syne” is a unique birthday song for all of us NYE and New Year’s Day babies.
grapefruit / 4455 posts
I don’t think it’s a huge deal but I’ve never been one of those IT’S MY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATE MEEEE types!!!
Our lo is due any day now and will likely be here the day after xmas but it’s so close already it’s like who cares if it’s one day away or two or three?
My philosophy about birthdays is you get what you get and you don’t get upset!
guest
As a mom of a December birthday kid, I hate it and moving forward we have agreed to do her party in January. We also do Hanukkah and Christmas, so the month just becomes an unending blur of presents and busyness, and there isn’t a free weekend to just relax as a family and appreciate the season. I’d rather focus on her birthday and not just have it be another day in the month she’s getting gifts and that I’m furiously trying to get stuff done/prepped for.