I really want to celebrate this milestone, my little baby is 2.5 years old!! Time flies !!!! I will bake a cake and then I have no idea what else to do. Any ideas how to make it fun for him ? I don't know if I want to celebrate it as an actual birthday with cake cutting , some balloons. or just keep it simple. Any fun ideas to decorate the cake for turning 2.5 years old? I want to do something different from his regular birthdays but not able to come up with anything creative and fun. Can you help M. mommas? Thanks in advance!
Just do something fun with him. Like take him to a children's museum, the zoo, or some farm fun. I would not do a party unless it's just family.
Huh. Third birthday will be here before you know it. Make that special
Is this for real?
Save your money for another 6 months and buy a cake for his 3rd birthday. He MIGHT even remember it.
ETA: Thanks for clarifying. I don't really understand the 2 1/2 celebration, but hey...I don't have to. You're excited and that's great.
You don't need to have an occasion to make hubby a cake. ;-) I'll bet he'd really like that cake if it had to do with HIM instead of being attached to your sweet baby. But since it is, perhaps you could make hubs a cake, and save enough batter to make kiddo a cupcake to smoosh.
Blessings.
That's funny. I agree that you should just do something fun, something that wouldn't be an everyday event. Don't invite a bunch of people...just parents and maybe grandparents, depending on how close you are.
ETA: You don't owe anyone that explanation.
have baby help bake cake, that will have the greatest impact for him than fancy decorating. I'm going to admit that celebrating a half birthday seems strange to M. and it prompted M. to wonder what kind of person you are, so I read a few of your previous questions. So with that note, I would add, go get a massage. Looks like you had a hell of a rough start with parenting, so this is more about what you've been through in 2.5 years than anything else.
any ecxuse for a cake is a good one! some people are grumpy! I read it like you J. wanted to do something speical for the day J. with him and your husband right?
i've never don't 1/2 birthdays but i've done things like that for finally talking to a kid at school, good grades, and so on. no song J. a special desert! J. have some cake and have him help make it and decorate it and let him go crazy and eat it without utensils..because he'll probably be too big for that by the time he's 3=) get a balloon or a cheap stuffed animal or something from the dollar store if you want. its not like you're inviting people over.
do whatever your heart desires no matter how silly it seems.
you can bake the half cake and then turn it on its side to sort of make a hill or mountain. You would need to toothpick the layers together.
you could make a bunt cake, cut it in half and it would look like a bridge.
as for what to do... go to the pumpkin patch. go to the movies. go to the park.
Make cupcakes, and let your little one decorate some himself. You can let him spread on some icing, add sprinkles or gummy worms, etc. Let him get messy, and take some pictures.
I think you answered your own question, because we have never celebrated half birthday's and I don't plan on starting. Maybe with one child I could see how that would be a consideration.
