First Year Memories – Celebrating Monthly Birthdays!
The first year after babies is challenging to say the least, a lot of figuring out, adjusting to new routines, sleepless nights, and you never get the feeling that you’ve settled in because there is always something new happening! And with twins, especially if they are also the first kids, its a completely different experience altogether! For us it was like we were always trying to catch up.. on everything.. for a few years! And everything happens in a blur!
My advice to new parents would be to take lots of pics and video, those are such precious memories to reflect back on later in time. And not to wait for things to be perfect – for the place to be tidy or for putting new outfits on the kids or for yourself to be all dressed up. I found that it was pretty much impossible!
In all that chaos, we somehow managed to celebrate each monthly birthday in the first year.
Since there was no way I could find time to bake cakes, they were picked up from the store. But to make it a little personal, I started placing the kids toys – what they were playing with around each month – as props around the cake.
