Importance of Celebrating Your Baby's First Birthday

May 11, 2010 - PRLog -- Birthday are special, but first birthdays mark a significant event in your baby's lives. You might be wondering that how soon your little boy or girl grew up. It seems like yesterday you were holding them in your arms and within a month they are going to be tuning one. Many of us do not realize the importance of celebrating this milestone. If you plan on making your baby's first birthday a grand success then you might want to make the necessary arrangements with great care and consideration. Right from the guest lists to the party favors must be perfect for the guests to enjoy themselves.

Planning and organizing for the birthday party requires a lot of work on the part of the parents. If your baby's birthday is just in few weeks, you might need to make the guest list and the first birthday photo invitations well in advance. Preparing the 1st birthday photo invitations can be fun. First you need to choose a favorite photo of your baby. These can either be clicked fresh or you can even use recent snapshots of them for the invitations.

In order to make the 1st birthday photo invitations a little attractive for the guest, you can choose from a number of background theme available on a number of online websites. You can even go in for colorful patterns and designs like shapes, alphabets, teddy bears, numbers and many more. Wordings for the first birthday photo invitations can be simple and sweet.

Thinking of whether to go in for themed parties? Well themed parties prove to make the tasks of the parents much easier and simpler. Since your baby does not have a favorite cartoon character, movie or personality, you can easily go in for Sesame Street, stuffed penguins or teddy bear themes that will nicely coordinate with your baby's first birthday. You can even take the help of your friends and family to help you organize according to the theme selected by you.

On the decorative front, you might be interested in purchasing colorful balloons in the shades of red, yellow, white, pink etc. Balloons might need to be placed outside the children's reach since popping balloons can frighten your baby. For added effect, you can have cartoon characters cut out or you can even go in for life size wall decals of Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh etc and have them placed at the entrance so that older kids can have pictures clicked with these famous characters

The birthday cake for your baby can range from cupcakes or can be baked in the form of the number 1. Have the cake decorated with some sparkles and icing and you are ready. In addition to this, the other food items that can be include could be teething biscuits for infants, sandwiches, cutlets, home cooked meals. Beverages can include fruit punches, wines, orange and lemonades for the kids.

Older kids love to play interesting and exciting games at parties. This can easily be arranged for by having light music and nursery rhymes played in the background so that the kids can sing and dance. Make sure your one year old is present at these games so that they too can clap or jump around on their high chairs. Other fun games that can be included could be Passing the parcel, musical chairs, Simon says and many more.

Last but not the least the party favors for the baby's first birthday can include a variety of candies, chocolates, cup cakes for the kids. Adults can be given thank you notes along with a cute snapshot of your baby. You can even save some beautiful photos for your baby so that they can cherish these memories when they grow up.

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