I’ve always believed that one year milestones are the best. They’re special in many ways. Whether you’re celebrating your first wedding anniversary, your child’s first birthday or your one year blog anniversary, the one year mark says “I’ve made it”. With kids, it says “We both made it”. I often congratulate parents as much as the infant when they turn one. It’s a special day for both the kid but truly, also the parent.
As if I need an excuse to throw a party… I like to go all out on my kid’s first birthday, but in different ways. For my first son, I invited our family and friends over for a big outdoor festivity. I ordered two cakes; one for smash the cake and one that was big enough to feed 100 guests.
For my second son’s birthday, we decided to make it a more intimate event, a simple dinner and only one cake. I’m not sure if the difference is due to birth order or to the fact that my oldest son’s birthday is in the summer and the younger one is in the thick of winter. Regardless, it was an important milestone and I knew we had to celebrate them both.
This month, Sears is also celebrating a one year milestone. Carter’s & OshKosh brands were launched at Sears Canada exclusively last year and they’re ready to celebrate their one-year anniversary! We’re such a big fan of Carter & OshKosh in our house. I can’t imagine my boys wearing any other pj’s. Sometimes, I wish they made their pj’s in adult size too 😉 
As part of the celebration, Carter’s & OshKosh are giving away a trip for a family of four to Orlando!!! The trip includes hotel and air, full-size rental car, passes to an Orlando attraction and dinning passes. Enter the contest now!
Also, one lucky Mayahood winner will get a chance to win a $50 Sears gift card that you could use to purchase some sweet Carter & OshKosh clothes for your little ones. Contest is open to all resident of Canada,18+ (unfortunately, this giveaway excludes Quebec residents). Winner cannot win this contest on any other blogs participating in this giveaway; However, you can enter across as many blogs as you want.
Disclosure: I am part of the Sears Mom Ambassador program with Mom Central Canada and I receive special perks as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own.
my son will be turning one in a month and a half! we are planning an elmo party for him. I’m really excited! 🙂
Party with the grandparents and friends!
My grandsons are both turning one with theme parties for family and friends.
We had grandparents and aunts and uncles over for a family BBQ
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we had a big birthday with family and friends
big b-day party with the family
Celebrated all 5 of mine just at home with family, a cake, a few gifts. Nothing big.
the family all gathered together to celebrate with cake and gifts
We had family and friends over for cake, and some food 🙂 Nothing over the top.
We did a very traditional house party with a few friends and the family. We also did a cake smash since it was the only way to get our son to even touch his birthday cake.
We celebrated with just our immediate family, cake presents.
My grand-daughter will be turning one in a few months. It will probably be a big bash!
we had a small themed birthday party at home with friends and family. homemade games, decorations, food… my oldest sons first birthday was a sesame street theme (I wanted a cookie monster theme but we couldn’t find anything with just cookie monster.)
my youngest sons theme was baby Mario.
At a local place called Bingemans..they have a huge playcentre for all ages with the cages full of balls, slides etc
He had a cold, so I baked a cake and we just had a few friends over.
We made a small party: just our son and us, and a Chocolate home-made cake!
I don’t have children. But there are records of my first birthday celebration in my baby book.
We had a special meal for dinner and I made a cake. The big party with family and friends was on the weekend, and was a great time.
We will have a themed party with friends and family!
We celebrated with family and friends with lots of food and gifts!
We took him to Chuck E Cheese. The adults probably had more fun than the kids but he seemed to enjoy it.
We had a big friends and family bbq in the park behind our home
We had carrot cake and family over. Not a big party, but still a special day.
we had a smash cake photo shoot and had a small party for her afterwards
we just celebrated with a cake and a few family and friends..
themed b-day party!
Lion King themed party with family and friends!
We had a big party with tons of friends and family
We had a party at a Play place for our first one and for our second one, a party at Fantasy Fair. The clean-up is so much easier and the kids have fun! 🙂
My little cousin had a big family get together.
No little ones of my own but we celebrated my niece & nephews with immediate family, nothing too big. Simple and easy!
With family and friends
we celebrated with having a party for family and friends, and getting a free cake from Zehrs.
we had close friends and family and we all went to the park and then back to the house for cake,
we had a big party with the family
had a family birthday party
Had just the fam over, more intimate, grandparents came.
We had a big family party for my girls’ first birthday :).
small family party with lots of cupcakes lol
Always tried to make a fancy cake and have friends over.
We have a little party at our home and invited family and a few close friends
3 parties… it was crazy. love in laws and divorced grandparents….. many cakes, many laughs and so much love.
we had a small party with family
We had a big bash bbq in our backyard with lots of family and friends, a theme with decorations and a special order cake-we went all out and I am thrilled with how it turned out!
family party
We had a cupcake themed party with friends and family. I made a super-sized cupcake for the cake – for our first daughter I made two, one for her and one for the guests; for our second daughter I just made one for her that she didn’t really end up touching much so we were able to serve it anyway (plus the regular cupcakes that i’d also made).
We celebrated by having close friends and family over and having dinner and cake. Of course one special cake for the birthday baby 🙂 and one for us 🙂
No little ones here!
Party at Chuck E Cheese, our little one was very excited.
for the first birthday we usually do a quiet family party with balloons and cake of course
My first son had a huge party with all of our friends and family. We moved far away from home before my second son was born, so his first birthday was much quieter with just our immediate family but it was still really fun and memorable.
Jonnie
My friend had a Cars themed party for her boy!
A family party 🙂 (Suzi)
A party! I set the house up all pretty and invited family over. 🙂 It was great.
We had a small birthday party with immediate family, we served dinner and had cake of course!
We had a party with grandparents,aunts and uncles and friends. The cake was made by my aunt who was a cake decorator.
My daughter will be 1 on July 6th, we are hoping to have a backyard party with a chic grey/pink theme! 🙂
Despite it being three days before Christmas, we had a huge party with family and friends.
A small party with just close family.
rented a hall and bouncy castle and had a load of fun.
We went to the park, threw down a bunch of blankets, and ordered a bunch of pizza. It was great fun, there was a free outdoor pool for the kids to swim in, a waterpark, and it was nice and casual. Best part: nearly zero cleanup.
My brother made my nephew a big party and a cake only for him 🙂
Boston pizza with family
we had a big family bbq
We had a big birthday party!
We did a purple themed birthday with all our friends and family.
total low key, cake with family
I just had my first a couple of days ago so I don’t know how we will throw his first bday party
We had a big owl themed birthday party, she was too pooped by the time it came to eat cake to even try it!
Big minnie mouse themed party!
Haven’t yet and not sure how we will 😉
With a little party with his friends/family. Then we all went to a near by gym for little kids for some fun.
I am going to have a superman theme party!
I celebrated my sons 1st birthday with friends and family 🙂
We had family over and cut cake.
We just had a small birthday party with the grandparents with a few gifts and carrot cake.
Celebrated with family and few friends
We had a family dinner with a special teddy bear cake
We had a beautiful little party with lots of food and decorations. Friends and family came over. My son cried when we sang Happy Birthday and he didn’t fancy the party hat on his head!
Cheers.
We had a big family party with dinner and a big cake.
We had a Family Backyard BBQ, and we did a cake for him to smash!
big party with relatives and friends