My
oldest baby's birthday is Christmas eve. He will be 5 this year. I know I could have planned it better,
but let’s face it we don't really have much say in the matter do we? I developed pre-eclampsia so had to give birth a little early and because they don't do inductions on Christmas day there was a big queue of pregnant woman.
A
few people have said why don't you have his birthday in the middle of the year,
but then what do I do on his actual birthday? I feel it would just get way to
confusing. Would I make him a year older in the middle of the year or tell him
it's his birthday but he's not older until Christmas. It would just give me a
headache.
I
try to make Christmas eve, his day. We have the presents all out in the morning with banners and balloons. Then we will do something
fun including lunch, last year he went to Build a Bear and this year we are going to go to the cinema. The the family comes
over with more presents and we have a special dinner with birthday cake of
course. He gets to play with his cousins and his new toys. Then at 7pm it stops being his birthday and it's Christmas eve preparations.
Christmas
eve is all about him, but then I feel he doesn’t quite get the build-up to
Christmas eve that I’d like. Once the family has left, we are then on Christmas
eve mode. The reindeer food is put out, the stockings hung, Santa is left his
glass of milk and a cookie and not forgetting Rudolph’s carrot. Then its bed
time for the boys and straight to sleep or Santa doesn’t come.
This
year I will be having a party for him; it will be in January as no one is going
to turn up Christmas eve. I want him to have a special day like everyone else
gets. The shine is taken off his birthday with the excitement and anticipation
of Christmas eve. But I try my best to make sure it’s special.
What
would you do if your child's birthday was Christmas eve, would you give them
two birthdays like the queen? Or try to make their day as much about them as you can?
