The year has arrived when we'll start celebrating Zoey's birthday in the summer, as opposed to on her actual birthday, December 8. I have several reasons for choosing a July party instead of a dead-of-winter bash. Listen up and take note, all you parents of December babies:
1. Remember the party I planned last year in December, the one that was cancelled due to the birthday girl's sudden battle with tonsilitis? Yeah. After three years of careful observation, I've noted that mid-summer is the only healthy season we get around here--knock on wood, we haven't gone through an entire box of Kleenex yet this month. It's the first month we've pulled this off since...last July, if I remember correctly.
2. Here's my main motivation for summer-time parties: this is the year Zoey has been invited to several birthday parties of her preschool/daycare classmates. And they were so fun! Her favorite by far was Maddie's party, celebrated at The Little Gym back in April. Immediately upon getting in the car with her treat bag, she asked to celebrate her own birthday at The Little Gym. I'll admit, it sounded enticing...three energetic high school kids running the little ones across the trampoline, the balance beams, playing noisy games set to the annoying tunes of Small Child Soundtracks...they even organized the cake-eating and present-opening. Maddie's parents basically sat back and watched their daughter have a blast at her party. So I made a couple phone calls. And found out it would cost me $220 to sit back and watch my own child enjoy her birthday party. Maybe...not.
But Zoey was insistent that she have a gymnastics (pronounced, for whatever reason, 'bee-nastics') birthday party. Lucky for me, the YMCA offers a similar bee-nastics party venue for far less than The Little Gym, due in part to the fact that we're members at the Y and get a discount. So we signed up for Saturday, July 24.
3. Finally, the idea of breaking up some of the December action appeals to me. Cramming a birthday party in to a month already packed with Christmas festivities is challenging. Of course we'll do something special for Zoey on her actual birthday--go out to dinner, bake a cake. But I won't have to worry about organizing 12 preschoolers for a fun-filled birthday event because I've already checked it off my to-do list. In July!
So. Zoey is way excited for her summer time bee-nastics party. I am feeling only somewhat daunted by the prospect of creating a Cinderella cake. And, come December, I can hunker down with my runny-nosed, feverish child without fear of having to cancel her birthday party. Again. It's a win-win for everyone.
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I too am a December baby (19th) and often wished for a June birthday so I could do something cool and have a pool party. December and sunshine? notsomuch. One year I had a sleepover party in October! I still remember it vividly.
The December child always gets gypped. Either their gifts are wrapped in Christmas paper or no one can come to their party because of family obligations. I still have memories of my 21st birthday in a half-empty dorm room. Y'know, finals time and quiet hours, or the kids who had finished had gone home. So instead of going out for a good time, it was quick and VERY quiet in the dorms. So, I think you moving Zoey's party to July sounds like fun :)
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