Do you celebrate half-birthdays when the kids are very young?
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Anonymous
| Like 1.5 to 4.5? Not with a party or anything but a family celebration? |
Anonymous
| Nope. I mean, we might acknowledge it verbally but we don't do cake or anything. |
Anonymous
| We didn't and I don't know anyone who has, but OP why not? Sounds like a fun thing to do. |
Anonymous
| We'd acknowledge it, maybe go to a bakery for a treat, wouldn't have a special dinner (or would call whatever dinner we are having special) |
Anonymous
| Acknowledge them but don’t really celebrate. Grandparents send gifts for half birthdays. |
Anonymous
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We acknowledge by letting the 1/2 birthday celebrant pick dinner (within reason) and we serve dessert, which is not an everyday thing.
This became a thing when my now 20-something niece/goddaughter was VERY big into her half birthday and thanks for reminding me its coming up in 2 weeks! |
Anonymous
| No, why would I create more work for myself like that? |
Anonymous
| Nope. Well, during the pandemic we did because their actual birthdays fall in winter and outdoor parties are easier in summer. But we just called it a birthday. |
Anonymous
| We acknowledge it and have a special dessert. But we don't invite anyone over. |
Anonymous
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Our extended family is pretty close and gathers most weekends, and we've never had a period of time in which we didn't have an elementary schooler in the mix. So, since our tradition is to celebrate the "big" kids, we celebrate the "little" ones too.
The tradition is that on the weekend closest to your birthday we have a party for you, and on the weekend closest to your half birthday, the kid gets to pick the dessert, and the we make it "half" in some way. It used to be that we served like half a pie. But now we have too many people so we do things like bake a layer cake and then cut in in half and stack it so it's got 4 layers instead of two half the circumference. Or we bake two different kinds of pies, eat half of each and then give the other half away. Or we have cookies, and cut them all in half, and everyone gets a few halves instead of a smaller number of wholes. It's silly, and fun, and we would be making dessert anyway so the only "work" is figuring out what half of whatever looks like. |
Anonymous
| If I ever want an excuse to bake a cake, yes! It's fun to make a semi-circle cake for a half-birthday. But it's definitely not something I do every year. |
Anonymous
| I’m thinking of doing it as a joint thing since my kids are two years apart and around Christmas so I’m seriously considering constructing a family “half-birthday” in the summer and giving them big gifts then rather than real birthdays. Development and size can change so much in six months and I’m going to have to buy some new stuff regardless. |
Anonymous
| Good Lord, no. Why make more work when they're not even going to remember it? |
Anonymous
| No. Way too much work. |
Anonymous
| Nope. This is a thing? |