Judging by the ages of your kids combining them is fine. When they are older, you may want to space it out a bit, maybe one at the tail end of the previous month in which they were born, the other one maybe at the beginning of the next month in which they were born. i.e. if they were born in July have one party at the end of June and one party August 1st.

I think you can 'get away' with combining parties for quite awhile. Maybe when they are school aged (elementary that is) they will begin to 'want their own thing'.

I have to add here my mother combined her birthday in September & my fathers, mine, and my grandmothers in October. I hated it. We had one pie (my father didn't like cake) and although the gathering was nice I never had that nice 'special' birthday feeling like my brother did when he got a separate party in July for his birthday. I think combining the adults one was fine, but I think the child's party, even if just like I said, decorating the kitchen and having a special cake would have made me feel much more special.

Decorating is fun - I would decorate maybe one room - maybe the kitchen - and then serve cake. Heck forget about buying them, if I were going to do that I'd make it an activity and make them with your daughter!!

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My DD and DS both have birthdays in May two weeks apart. We have one BIG party and let them choose their own cake. We do try and make their birthday their special day. We always decorate their room (streamers, balloons, happy birthday sign) the night before while they’re asleep that way when they wake up their room is decorated. We always wake them up by singing “Happy Birthday”. They get to choose what they want to eat, open presents, eat cupcakes, and we always make sure to tell them over and over Happy Birthday and how blessed our family is because of them. It may not work for everyone but it does for us.

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My 3 girls are all in august, with about 10 days in between all three.

I do a combined extended family party and a combined friend party (they are school aged). On their individual bday they get to make all the choices. They also wear a tiara. We give them their presents from us and their sisters. they also pick where they want to go to eat for dinner or if they want me to make a favorite dinner.
I do not think giving them a shared bday party is bad. I also do home parties. I did one party at a dance studio but I won that in an auction. We are thinking of separating the friend party this year b/c the older girls want a almost sleepover. SInce it would be in the evening the 5 yr old would have to do something separate.

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i'm not one for sharing b-day parties the reason is i think birthdays are special and should be a day just for that child.. that said if its easier to combine for family reasons or money reasons make their actual b-day really special by letting them pick whats to eat that day or if you can afford to let them pick a place to go for fun. it does alot for a childs self esteem to have one day a year when they are the center of attention its all about them for one whole day.

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Birthday parties are OUT.OF.CONTROL. (IMHO, of course! ) If you find something that works for your family and your children aren't upset by it, I am all for it.

It's time to get back to basics, especially with today's economy. Not only that, I don't know about you, but I don't want my children growing up like I did, thinking money grew on trees and not having a true appreciation for the value of a dollar. It's a bit of a rude awakening, as this is the first recession, if you want to call it that, that I've experienced in my adult life.

I would do their actual birthday this way. My 2 are 11 days apart and this is what we do, with one combined party in between the 2 birthdays.

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