Have you gone when 1 child has a birthday and the other doesn't?

[BensWife]

We are going to DL in September to celebrate DH's and my 10th wedding anniversary. We are taking our kids with us. Our son's birthday is a couple days after we get home. Should we get him a birthday button and celebrate a week early? Our other son's birthday isn't until March. We could maybe celebrate his 1/2 birthday while we are there too (I am a teacher and have done that in my classroom for the kids who have summer birthdays). I like to try to be as fair as I can, but I can't see celebrating one's birthday and not the other's since there is no way we can afford to come back for our older son's birthday. What would you do?

 

[etaber5]

That is what we will be doing this year! We are going to celebrate one child each day.

 

[pigletliz]

Since neither child's birthday is actually during the vacation, I would wait until we got home to celebrate. They'll have enough fun without it. Have a great trip!

 

[Californiacicle]

Since neither child's birthday is actually during the vacation, I would wait until we got home to celebrate. They'll have enough fun without it. Have a great trip!

I agree with this.

 

[Briarmom]

Since neither child's birthday is actually during the vacation, I would wait until we got home to celebrate. They'll have enough fun without it. Have a great trip!

Yep!

 

[whoever]

We are never ACTUALLY there on their birthdays, but we celebrate anyway when they are within a week or two on either side. No reason to celebrate the birthday if it isn't in that general month's window IMHO. I have one spring, and two autumn children, so you get what you get.

 

[nikkislaght]

We go in April.. my sons birthday is Feb. and our friends daughter is Sep. part of their b/day present is a Disney trip, even if not near their days... we dont celebbrate , and get presents and cake et at Disney but we do get them a button...

 

[cats mom]

We are going to DL in September to celebrate DH's and my 10th wedding anniversary. We are taking our kids with us. Our son's birthday is a couple days after we get home. Should we get him a birthday button and celebrate a week early? Our other son's birthday isn't until March. We could maybe celebrate his 1/2 birthday while we are there too (I am a teacher and have done that in my classroom for the kids who have summer birthdays). I like to try to be as fair as I can, but I can't see celebrating one's birthday and not the other's since there is no way we can afford to come back for our older son's birthday. What would you do?

Do they like lots of attention, and would they be comfortable answering questions about when their birthday is? Often CM's and other guests will not only wish happy birthday, they will strike up conversations, ie: how old are you today, or this is my birthday too, that kind of thing. I imagine you could get even more of that if 2 children in the same family are wearing birthday buttons on the same day.

I have one child who wore her button for less than an hour, and we were in the park on her birthday. She just didn't like the extra attention. I have another child who would revel in that, and would have no problem telling everyone it wasn't really his birthday, he was just celebrating, regardless of how far from his actual birthday it was, or the reaction he got. lol

Since no one's birthday falls within the trip dates, and it sounds like it wasn't planned as part of a birthday celebration, I'd probably forego the birthday buttons, but that's just me.

 

[Stitch35]

We go during my youngest sons birthday neatly every year. He gets a birthday button my oldest gets a celebrating button or an "un" birthday button. We have gotten him a regular birthday button and his birthday is 3 months after my youngest. It's fun to celebrate birthdays in the park. I guess the biggest thing is the ages of your children, and what they would be ok with.

 

[Jedi Mouse]

When my sons birthday fell on our annual spring break vacation, we made sure to take my daughter to a princess breakfast so she didn't feel left out.

 

[darcie2000]

When we were visiting last May, our trip coincided with my nephew and my Brother in Laws birthdays.

My daughter and my other nephew and niece were fine with the extra attention that my nephew received. I actually think it would have been unfair for the birthday child if we had of "fake" celebrated everyone else's birthdays.

 

[nikkislaght]

Part of my son's Christmas and Birthday(feb) present is our trip to Disneyland.. we go in April. So we always get a button to celebrate..he chooses not to wear it most often, but he loves having when we get home..

We also go with a friends niece.. and she never minds if he has a button or not.. as the button is the only thing we do there to celebrate..

 

[mummabear]

My older 2 girls birthdays are 3 weeks apart and this upcoming trip we will be in the park for the 2nd time for her actual birthday. They way flight deals work here we cannot be in the park for our oldest DD's actual day. We celebrate them both with buttons and a cake, they will only be 3/5 this year (last time they were 1/3).
I do struggle with the fact that it is unfair on our oldest to only celebrate our middle childs birthday but also feel that it is unfair on the middle one that she has to share her day then our oldest gets her special day when it is her bday too....
Our youngest will only be 6 months this trip so no worry there-until she gets older and wants to know why her sisters have had bdays at the parks and not her (unlikely since she is a feb baby after the school term starts)

 

[rentayenta]

Our middle DD's bday is in December and we always seem to be there around that time. We celebrate her bday. The other two have birthdays in August and February. We don't celebrate theirs there. It's life.

 

[Dot2Vegas]

Since neither child's birthday is actually during the vacation, I would wait until we got home to celebrate. They'll have enough fun without it. Have a great trip!

I agree. My girls birthdays are in February and March. We have gone during each of those months and decided to not celebrate birthdays. This past year we happened to be at the park with Grandma, the day before my twins birthday so we got them a birthday button. They loved it and my older daughter seemed to be OK with it. We did get her an "I'm celebrating" button. I felt bad the whole time and don't think we will go on a birthday again! Too much pressure to do it for each kid (which is nearly impossible).

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Our middle DD's bday is in December and we always seem to be there around that time. We celebrate her bday. The other two have birthdays in August and February. We don't celebrate theirs there. It's life.

I agree with this post. If this were my trip, the two options I would consider would be:

* Celebrate one birthday because the child's birthday is right around the corner, not the other child's birthday. We've actually celebrated one child's birthday in Disneyland and not the other's. My kids' birthdays are in March and December.

* If this is not a birthday celebration trip, don't celebrate any birthdays, just enjoy the trip for the trip itself.

 

[Dukland]

We are going in September and it just happens to be a few days after our youngest child's birthday. We will likely get a button and celebrate while we are there.

Our other two kids have birthdays in November, so we will not be getting buttons for them. This is just the way life works. If we were going in November, I would try to plan the trip between their 2 birthdays (which are 13 days apart) and pick one day for each of them.

We will be celebrating our 25th anniversary this September, also. I don't know if they do that, but I might consider getting a button for that, as well, one day. It would be a good memory.

 

[dollarmite]

We celebrated my son's 9th birthday at DLR a few years ago. Aside from a few "happy birthday's" from cast members there wasn't that much fuss made by other people. As a family we all had breakfast at the Lilo & Stitch meal at PPH and went to the Pat-E-Cake party at the park. The DLR trip wasn't specifically for DS's birthday; it just happened to fall during our 6 week trip to the USA.

Older DS (12 at the time) wasn't the slightest bit fazed by these celebrations centred around his younger brother. (But it all evened out as older DS has celebrated his birthdays in Fiji and at Universal Studios Singapore and younger DS hasn't been bothered by it).

 

[Aussie Princess]

We are going to DL in September to celebrate DH's and my 10th wedding anniversary. We are taking our kids with us. Our son's birthday is a couple days after we get home. Should we get him a birthday button and celebrate a week early? Our other son's birthday isn't until March. We could maybe celebrate his 1/2 birthday while we are there too (I am a teacher and have done that in my classroom for the kids who have summer birthdays). I like to try to be as fair as I can, but I can't see celebrating one's birthday and not the other's since there is no way we can afford to come back for our older son's birthday. What would you do?

We went in Nov last year and my sons and my birthday were 1 and 2 days after we got back to Australia but we celebrated there buttons and all

Obviously due to cost coming from Australia and the thanksgiving holiday we had to come and go before thanksgiving

This year we will be there for our birthdays so it will still be badges and all

 

[larina]

I would get a birthday button for the child who's birthday is the week after (if they like attention, but I wouldn't do the half birthday. Honestly, if the birthday isn't within a month of the trip it just seems dishonest. You can get a birthday button to take home for the birthday person to wear when it is their birthday.