Celebrating a birthday with two children

[dls116]

We will be going to WDW the week before my DD's 3rd birthday and of course we want to get her a birthday button and make a big deal about it. We will also have our other DD, who will be 6 1/2.

Who has celebrated one child's birthday on a trip? Did you do anything special for the other kid so they didn't feel left out with the special attention DD#2 will be getting? I was thinking BBB but we are going to hold off on my DD#2's first haircut until we go to Disney and go to the barber shop to get the commemorative Mickey ears so we were going to just get my 6 year old's hair cut/done there. Any other ideas? Or should I just suck it up and take her to BBB?

 

[Kimosabe]

We have been there at birthday time (give or take a week or two) for both of our kids, as well as for me and my wife. Everybody just knew that at some point, we'd plan a trip near their birthday, so neither kid really got out of sorts when it was time for the other...they just knew it was a good chance for them to get back to WDW for whatever reason it happened to be! Having said that, I'm not sure we could have gotten away with taking one of them to BBB without letting both of them do it. At age 3, you might be able to get away with it, but it would probably be the last time - ha!

The CMs have typically been very good about making sure the sibling had a button of some sort when the birthday kid got a birthday button, so as to help with feelings before they had a chance to get hurt.