two kids/one birthday!

[alohamom]

We are going to celebrate my son's 4th birthday as he is a mickey nut. I read somewhere you can get a button or badge at city hall (?) just as you enter main street for kids celebrating birthdays. At first I thought that would be great but my daughter (6) is the jealous type and I am worried about her feeling left out. What would you do? Do I get it for him or not? I'm torn between making it extra special for my little boy or preventing a meltown from my little tinkerbelle. Call me wishy washy but I am floundering on this one, one day I think he so deserves it, how often does one celebrate their birthday at WDW, the next I think heck its only a button! What to do, what would you do?

 

[wuv tigger]

Tough to give advice without knowing the kids. I will say that I got alot of attention in the MK when I had my birthday button and it was a lot of fun.

It does not have to be your birthday exactly to get a button, maybe your daughter is close enough to celebrate hers?

Another thought is maybe to print out a sticker that says birthday helper and let her have a button that says birthday helper.

Another thought is to go in first and ask the CM to explain that it is very important for her to point out to all the characters that it is her brother's birthday. Maybe he/she can then give her some stickers of her favorite characters. They usually have these, or you can bring some from home and give them to the CM ahead of time.

You pick up the buttons at guest relations right on main street.

Maybe someone else will have some other ideas.

David

 

[sue1013]

I would get my son the button. Birthdays are special! Is it fair to your son to downplay his bd because his sister tends to be jealous? Since your daughter is 6 she's got to be used to her brother having a birthday. How do you handle it at home?

 

[alohamom]

David-I love your suggestion about her being the birthday "helper". She has been insanely jealous of her little brother since the day he was born and we have done and used every method to deal with it! Only last summer did she announce (keep in mind that at that point he was 3) that it was finally o.k. with her that Jacob is part of our family!!!!!!!!!! I make her out to be Cruella DeVille, when she really isn't it is just that I don't want her to spoil it for him and have it be a huge scene. My husband suggested telling her about the button before hand so she is mentally prepared and this is how we tackle a lot of issues with both our kids. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[tricia]

Maybe she should be allowed to pick the park for the day, or get to ride her favourite ride first, or pick where the birthday dinner should be. You could give her a couple of choices so you don't end up with something you or DS does not like.

 

[castlegazer]

We had this happen on our last trip. It was a trip for my son's 1st birthday but we were with another couple with a two year old who knew enough to be very very jealous of the attention so what we did was to celebrate my DS's birthday only one day - he only wore the pin that day and had his special meal with Mickey and Donald to celebrate - and then we gave the pin to our friend's DD to wear at CRT on another day so she could get the special attention from the princesses and get the certificate. We told her that while it wasn't her birthday yet, the princesses wanted to celebrate the day early with her. Her birthday was reasonably close to our trip but definately about a month away. We did go over this in advance with her so she was prepared and understood (I know what you all are thinking, she IS pretty advanced and did understand - I am jealous looking back on how advanced she was because I know my DS wouldn't have even comprehended what we were doing now that he is almost 2, and for that matter probably wouldn't have cared a less about it).

Remember that Birthdays only last a day when you're at home so you may want to stick to that while at WDW. Oh, but definately celebrate the day for your son - it is so very magical and special to do it while in WDW especially for a Mickey nut who will be so blown away that Mickey wished him happy birthday. Minnie sent my son a card with her picture on it and a bouquet of balloons because the mousekeeper noticed the button in the room (only problem was that the mousekeeper got his name a little wrong - but hey, he won't notice till years from now). So mention is at your resort too - special things happen while at WDW.

 

[mmeb144]

My DS turned 11 a week before we left for WDW. We celebrated his birthday all week long! It was great. However, my DD, 8 at the time, was a little bit jealous, until we told her we would try to get to WDW for her 10th B-day. That helped a lot.

Another thing, too, is that the CMs are very aware of jealous siblings. At AK, my DD was given a small conservation pin to wear, while my DS was given the AK birthday pin. Other nice things happened to both my children at WDW. What a magical place!

Marie

 

[lovesdumbo]

I have the same worry. My DS will turn 3 while we are at Disney and although my DD(4 1/2) is usually pretty good I'm afraid she'll be a bit jelous but I do plan on getting the birthday button for his special day. I don't plan on giving him any gifts at Disney and I think she'll be a good sport about having lunch at Crystal Palace and having a cake. My other DD will turn 1 ten days after we get home and although it would be fun to celebrate her 1st birthday at Disney I don't think I will.

I do like the idea of birthday helper.