What should I do?

Hello lafred and welcome to myLot. No kid is going to remember or even expect a birthday party before the age of about four years old. When parents give a birthday party for the kids under four it is for the parents. If it were me I would have close family for cake and ice cream and if there are small kids just let them play and maybe get a kiddy pool for them to play in. Shye would have more fun that way because kids love water.. I certainly would not have any thing at McDonald's for kids that young. McDonald's play ground or jungle is not safe for one year olds and especially with other kids unless there is a parent for every two kids.

For such a baby of one year old - why we are celebrating his/her birthday? For future memory, for other people, for telling to other that our baby is one year old since she/he did not know what happening. So if not problem in the budget go for outside celebration with friends and others as you said but if problem stay at home and make a small special food and celebrate with your family... I think that is practical...

When my children turned one, I just bought a cake and invited the nearest family to my home for a couple of hours. Older people and babies feel better at home and the baby will not remember a thing. But it will be nice to take pictures of the moment when everyone but the baby blow out the candle.

Hmm, I don't have a baby, and nor I am married yet. If I have a child, and how I would celebrate his/her birthday, I definitely invite everyone come to my house and do a barbecue thing for the adults. While for the children, I would make a playground balloon thingy for them to play. Otherwise, I won't bring them to McDonald. Or I can take them to chuckle cheese for some fun time.

Why don't you make a party to celebrate your child's birthday at home? you can cook at home and then invite his friends to join together...

No one year old will not remember there birthday at all. NO body at that age ever remembers there birthday. I wouldn't do anything big McDonalds is fine the only thing I can see wrong with that is it being over crowed if you go on the weekend and I don't know where you live in the world but here it's summer so school is out for the year so that means more kids are out and parents having there kids to take out to lunch and stuff. What we did was just me, my husband and our daughter and we took her to chucky cheese it was really crowed there for sure since her birthday fell on a week. This year was her first birthday and not to long before then we found out about me being pregnant again so I didn't know if I could handle the food or not at that point there. But we stayed she had a ball just being us and her she loved the little toddler rides they had there. We played the big kids game for her to get her something and gave the rest away to some other kids that had there birthday that same day. The important part is that your happy with what you do and just remember that she will not remember it but it's still a very special day. I think either way your daughter will be happy with what ever you do. Both sound great to me but if you are going to have like a birthday party with friends even if there is no presents at this playing I would go into that MCD's before hand and let them know you would like to use the play room for a certain amount of time that way it doesn't get over crowed with other peoples children that you don't know or the other parents don't know.

I think it's a good idea to celebrate this with friends and family, and have the kid play and have fun with other kids. It's not the point that they wont remember, it's that they have a good time on their birthday, and be with people they love. And you will always have pictures to remind them later in life. I think the McDonald idea is a great idea. Or even a nice get together in a park or something like that.