Ideas for Baby First Birthday

We had my son's 1st party at a pavillion at the lake by our house. We did have to rent the pavillion, so I looked on the city website to find out where I needed to call about it, so maybe call the parks and recreation dept. in Frisco. I bought stuff to decorate the pavillion, but it was just a waste of $ b/c it was so windy nothing stayed up. We had a great time, even though it started raining towards the end and we had to relocate to our house to open presents. Don't worry about the details, just enjoy the day! Keep it simple, since it is for you and the family, b/c your little girl won't remember it. Take tons of pictures and video!

It is true that your daughter won'e remember it but it is a special day and there is nothing wrong with throwing a party.

For our daughter's first, we had it at our home, I cooked chicken kiev and some other goodies, served food buffet style. A lot of our friends came with their children. We all had a lot of fun socializing with each other while our little ones played.

I did not go with a theme for this party. Daughter is 14 now and I have planned some big parties. I love the planning and organizing of the party and then seeing all the children (now teens) have a blast!

Enjoy.....your little one will be grown up all too fast!

Throw the party for yourself, not for your daughter. She's too young to know, understand or appreciate what's going on. The little ones don't really "get" holidays/ celebrations till closer to 3 years old. So have the party for the family. Make it an adult celebration with fun things to do for the kids if they're coming their parents. Enjoy!

just don't make it so huge that it overwhelms the baby! sure invite some family and friends over, serve great food and cake, sing the song, open presents...but don't pack 200 people in a room for 3 hours and then wonder why your child is freaking out. kwim?

Keep it simple and enjoy this milestone!

I have 2 kids and although both first parties were 'simple', I like my sons the best. We had it at a local park that I knew wasn't very busy and had toddler size toys and big toys as well. It was jungle themed but you could do anything. I picked up chicken fingers and okra and fries from chicken express and made a cake in the shape of a lion (Hobby Lobby). It was just so nice...perfect weather...plenty of parking and very little mess from the party-easy clean up. I'd just invite family and maybe close friends...like the others said..you're little one won't realize what's going on. I had to open both my kids presents because they could care less. Once they saw a toy they were hooked and done with everything else! lol. It's so hectic having parties anyways-make the first one simple so you can enjoy this special moment!