OUR LITTLE VALENTINES: BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS 2014
This year we decided that as St. Valentine’s fell on a Friday, we would celebrate both boys’ birthdays by opening gifts on the Saturday (Jensen’s birthday) instead, and our own Valentine’s day got lost, again. Late on Valentine’s evening, I was wrapping little gifts in pink paper and tying helium hearts to chairs in readiness for the following morning.
Our gifts were simple this year; a matching present as a surprise (Captain Hook’s Cabinet of Hooks), a present chosen by themselves (Jensen: a keyring of Om Nom from Cut the Rope, Lyoto: a teaset), a box of Duplo each (from the Christmas sale) and a book each. Having birthdays within two months of Christmas leads to an overload of toys and so we planned more carefully this year to spread out the celebrations.
Secretly I was worried they would figure out that there were much fewer parcels to open than usual, but no. They were in heaven.
The rest of the day was filled with Jiu Jitsu for Jensen (Star of the Day!), pirating games and some birthday cake on the evening. It was simple and perfect, a sweet start to their birthday celebrations to come.
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Wait, you guys don't celebrate Mother's Day in May? I didn't know that. We actually have a quiet month in February because we don't celebrate Valentine's Day, so we have nothing going on.
What a cute way to combine a holiday and a birthday! I love it!
I always wondered about ways to combine a birthday and holiday this is giving me some great ideas
I always thought it would be bad to have your birthday on a holiday. You found a great way to make it all work.
Adorable combination of birthdays and holidays! The first picture is so chic!
A very awesome way indeed to do a combination celebration – love the photos too.
They're so cute! My younger daughter was born on Valentine's Day. We tried as hard as we could to make sure she had a separate celebration for her birthday, but it was hard. Even in school she missed out. They would always have a Valentine's Day party, so she never got to celebrate her birthday with her classmates like everyone else did.
Your Valentines/Birthday celebration is like Christmas morning! It looks like the boys loved that!