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For their birthdays last year, both kids had two of their close friends over for a very small party. This year we’ve been much stricter about quarantining, so it was just our family for Olive’s 10th birthday. We had planned for the kids to go on a 4-hour horseback riding lesson, but a big storm […]

Since Charlie had a disappointing birthday last year, I wanted to make sure he had a good one this year. Charlie’s biggest wish has been to play in snow since we moved to the Philippines, so when the local mountains got early snowfall over Thanksgiving, I decided to book a cabin in the mountains for his birthday […]

Earlier this year, we threw Panda his first birthday party when he turned 3. We had previously thrown two birthday parties for Lion when he turned 3 and 4. Our experience throwing Panda’s birthday party was much different than Lion’s because the guest list was greatly expanded! Panda enjoying the pre-party setting up. Lion is […]

Over Memorial Day weekend, we celebrated the girls’ third birthday with a party at our home. Given that my biggest bonding time with the girls are our moments reading together, I’ve stuck with a children’s book classic for all of their birthday parties so far. Their first birthday party was in the theme of Pat […]

In my family, we have a lot of December birthdays. Three of them are in the first three weeks, and then we hit the dreaded holiday birthdays. My mom is 12/23, my uncle is 12/25, and baby Lou is 12/27. Right in the middle of both Christmas and New Year’s. A quick google search shows […]

Since Baby Pencil is going to be my last child (I think?) I decided to go ahead and have the whole decorated first birthday bash — something I didn’t even do for Toddler Pencil! For Toddler Pencil, we had zero decorations, a plain sheet cake and no agenda — it was just a party on […]

The 7th birthday is one of the biggest birthday celebrations in the Philippines, with many parents renting out banquet halls in hotels and having wedding-sized affairs. The 7th year is considered especially important because that’s when children here start first grade, when they are old enough to be held accountable for their actions, and when […]