Do a Combo Celebration?

I would eventually throw a combo party for all of them too. My moms birthday is on December 3rd also. It would be alot easier to celebrate them all at one time.

I don't think your son would feel cheated if his birthday were shared with his fathers or his grandmothers. So long as he still gets a cake and presents, he should be fine with it. Now, in general, December babies to get a little shorted on the presents because money is already tight in the Christmas season. I think, however, a little attention to detail and fairness would be reasonable. Or, perhaps, celebrating an un-birthday halfway through the next year in the summer. An idea, perhaps.

My mom, sister and sister in laws liked to throw combo parties for their kids so it saves money and time. It does when they are younger but as they get a little older they start wanting different themes and all that. I guess it is a time of year to show your kids how special they are and with the Holidays Booming in the month of December and the weather might be working against you also and I would have his party alone till he is aleast 8 cause kids find their parties special and then after 8 talk to see if he wants to combine.

My son and my father were born on the same day. For his first few birthdays I made a cake for each of them and had just a small family thing together. My son and my daughter are both in January too. There Birthdays are 13 days apart. I have never had a "party" for either of them, but they both get their own cake on their own birthday.

My oldest was born the day after my birthday, which happens to fall the same week as Mother's Day and my wedding anniversary (that was just poorly planned). Up until my son started school I did do a combined party for me and him. Since at that point we only invited family and friends (of mine). When he was in first grade though I began throwing him birthday parties for his classmates and stopped the family parties. Since then I really haven't celebrated my birthday anymore. I'll get a gift and greetings from family and friends, but we don't throw a party or have guests or anything like that anymore. We focused more on his birthday than any of the other holidays in that week. Now he's older and we don't even throw a party for him anymore really. I'll make him a cake and we'll buy him presents and have a family thing with just us, but we don't invite anyone over anymore.

One of my Uncles was born on Christmas Day. My Aunt was born on 12/27 and My Mother was born on 12/31. It's almost like my Grandparents planned it this way. Then we have 3 June birthdays and three August birthdays. So for me, it has always been traditional that each person has a party and gets very nice gifts on their birthday and at Christmas time, we've always drawn names and everyone gets just one Christmas gift from whoever drew their names and another gift from their parents. My Grandmother always believed that their should be a special day for each person. Once everyone grew up, it became somewhat of a non issue because at some point you don't want a party but we still gather together and have a little birthday celebration at the favorite restaurant of the person who's having a birthday.

My husbands birthday is the 9th of dec, my nans is the 13th and my brothers is the 16th. i think we should just have one giant celebration on my nans birthday.. she just turned 88. Maybe next year we will all go out to a resteraunt and have a gIANT party ;) for sure when she turns 90!

I think when they are young and don't know the difference its OK to celebrate if the days are very close together. But your son will know there is two weeks between his birthday and Christmas, so it would probably be best to not celebrate them together, especially once he is older. My ex's birthday is the beginning of Jan and his mother celebrated his birthday and Christmas together and he was always so bitter about it as an adult. Its childish, but when they are kids it might help him to feel more special to do it separately. My boys' birthdays are 9 days apart and when they were little we had a single celebration for them both, but now that they are older we celebrate them separately so they each feel like they have their own special day.

I would do a combo b-day party for the adults but a separate one for the baby.. He deserves to have a few of his own until he gets a bit older.. When he gets to be about 18 or so, he will probably love to join in the combination b-day parties.. Incidentally, mine is December 11th, a sister-in-law is Dec 26th, another sister-in-law is Dec 19th, and a sister is Dec 19th.. We are getting enough age on us that we don't really put much emphasis on b-days..