Birthdays Two Days Apart

I saw this once and thought it was super sweet. A mom photographed her daughter every year on her birthday in an old but very pretty dress. On the morning of her birthday she would try on the dress and they would go out into the back yard with a camera and have fun. In the begining the dress didn't fit... it was a little like dress up but by the time she was a teenager the dress really started to look cute on her. They had a great series of photos that showed how much she had changed over the years. They also had the special momories from the moments that they had shared while out photographing. If you have a boy you could also do the same thing by using one of dad's old shirts or ties!

For a girl you could buy her a charm bracelet and put a charm on it every year that represents her personality or interests for the year. For a little one, they might be little shoes for walking, a book for reading stories etc. As she grows the bracelet will become more and more personalized. You can give it to her on her 16th or 18th birthday. I like www.timelesscharms.com.

You could also do a scrapbook for her of her life with a 2 page spread for each year.

Just a couple of thoughts. Have fun!

Have your daughter decorate a tile every year. It doesn't have to be a handprint...and you'll enjoy her masterpieces in the kitchen as a future mural as she gets older.

my brother and I are two years apart but have the same birthday. I don't think either of us felt "cheated" out of sharing our days together. Sometimes we had seperate cakes, sometimes they combined our interests in one-one year it was a Rocket flying under a rainbow since I wanted a rainbow cake and my brother wanted a rocket cake.
Both of my children have their own trees, and every year we make a stepping stone to go around the tree.

I wanted to do something special for my kids as well. I just haven't started that tradition yet. LOL. Well this year, I plan on taking my daughter to Build-a-Bear and letting her make her first bear. And I was hoping to do a new one for her every year. Just a thought.

maybe you could still do the cement thing but do footprints instead. Or do handprints in paint instead of cement.
You could always do a charm bracelet and have the charm represent something special she had an interest in each year, dont let her have it till she is 13 to make it extra special.

For my own Mom, I gave her a handcrafted photo every year for her birthday. I would find a round or heart shaped piece of cut wood at JoAnn's or Michaels, paint it, decorate, put some ribbon around the edges, put a ribbon/bow thru the pre-cut hole to be hung up, and to top it off I placed that years picture of me and wished her a Happy Birthday or Happy Mother's Day. Even now I do this but I've replaced a pic of me with a pic of my daughter. She loves it.

My brother, sister, and I had birthdays all in the same week. It's important to make their birthdays all about them, but sharing a party is no big deal. I think you should do the hand prints anyway, even if you do something else.

I saw something in a magazine that I thought was cute. Try taking a picture of your daughter wearing something special (like your wedding dress, or grandma's apron, or just a pretty prom dress). Take a picture of her wearing the same thing every year, and watch how she grows into it. It's kinda cute.

Alot of pharmacies have the birthday statues for girls...that is what my mother does for her granddaughters

Because she's a little girl and girls tend to be more into dress up and being in front of a camera, I would think you could dress her up and take her to get her pictures taken without her brother. There is a great place in the Northpoint Mall called Picture People. They don't charge for the sitting and you only pay for the pictures you want in the sizes you want. You could certainly do it every year on her birthday as a tradition.

Maybe to stay along the same tradition, but still be different you could do feet prints with your youngest and hand prints with your first. Then its different, but she won't look back and wonder what here prints were like growing up.

How about foot prints for her???? another special tradition for everyone could be a special place that you visit and everyone gets their picture taken...by you of course...try all of you set the timer on the camara thing....

For each of our boys' first three birthdays, we take our two boys to a paint-your-own-pottery store. The birthday boy does a painted hand- or footprint on a plate (or sometimes both) & we then paint a picture out of it. So far we have handprint palmtrees at the beach, a foot- and two handprint angel, a handprint moose, handprints that became a duck's feet, and a butterfly made out of both feet & both hands. In July we're going to do handprint tulips. The other boy can paint whatever he wants to paint in the store, so he has fun too. It makes for a memorable family outing & a great photo opp too! The boys love the plates, because they helped make them.
Now we have two plate racks hanging in our dining room. Each has the birthday plates for a different child. When they grow up & move out, I'll let them take them & hang them in their own homes if they want.