I'll be dealing with this as well. Me, my husband and my first daughter all have birthdays in December. Our second daughter was born in June this year. First daughter has to share a month with her parents and Christmas and crappy cold weather. Second daughter gets a month to herself and nice warm weather. Yeah, I think there is going to be jealousy down the line!

My DD1's birthday is one day after our Forever Family day. DD2's is two weeks after Christmas. The way I celebrate birthdays is: we don't do a "party" but just a close-family celebration. We do stuff that both kids will really enjoy. We treat the day as a "family" fun day (other than the presents and the name on the cake/cards). As far as gifts go, so far, the girls have gotten the "big" stuff around DD1's birthday, but it belongs to both of them. That would be the train table, the big kitchen, the big dollhouse, the bouncy horse. I guess now that they are old enough to get jealous, I could say the "big presents" are for "forever family day." Come to think of it, that's a brilliant idea.

As far as sharing a birthday month with others, my kids actually think this is cool. My one kid has the same birth month as me, so I have to remind my other kid that her birthday is in the same month as Grandpa's. Oh, and as for the weather, etc.: I have 5 siblings, with all kinds of birthdays, and nobody was jealous of anyone else's birthday. That said, our parents never connected a big event with a birthday, unless it was in lieu of gifts at the child's option.

My twins were april babies. Their 3rd birthday happen to fall on Easter. Not a big deal to me, they didn't know the difference, but as they get older I am trying to figure out how to incorrporate it . My boss has a big one though, child #3 born on Halloween and child #4 born on April 1 ! I do not envy her.

Well, my two olders both have birthdays that fall outside of the school year, so its really difficult to incorporate school friends. Of course, etiquette seems to dictate that the whole class has to be invited, and I just don't have the constitution to handle that many kids, so it's a blessing in disguise. My June baby always has a pool party of some sort, but its harder to find fun stuff for my December-born son. I tell him that he'll have better parties when he's older, because his birthday is the 31st. My third has it the best, I think. Having a September birthday means she will be able to invite school friends and have pool parties.

I have to say that I always LOVED my birthday month as a kid ~ FEBRUARY!! My birthday is February 1, and, as a kid, I thought that it was awesome that my birthday came enough after Christmas that I could ask for my birthday things I did not get (or did not think to ask) for Christmas (hey, total kids way of thinking here!) Plus, as far as the cold yucky weather that never bothered me. My dad was an Elementary PE teacher so for birthday parties he brought all his cool PE stuff home (bean bag toss, orange cones, small parachute, etc.). Now, my DD's birthday is February 16th and I love that she shares my birthday month! So far birthday parties have been no problem...as long as my daughter gets to spend time with many of her friends and family on her special day she is happy (ok, gotta add a cake to the mix to really make her happy :)

It is bad all around. My son was born 8 days after Halloween and my daughter two weeks after Christmas.

My son's birthday is the day before Riley's. (And I was pregnant in Memphis, where the heat index is WELL above 100 in the summertime. Yeah, I refused to step outside until my husband had gone out & cooled off the car.) End of August has it's own challenges for a kid's birthday.

Where I live, we go back to school early - mid to late August. So his bday was often just a week into the school year, before he'd had a chance to create new friendships. So you don't really know who to invite to his party. You're left with an all-or-nothing proposition.

And when he gets to be a teenager, for god's sake I hope you held him back so that he's the oldest in his class & not the youngest! My son had a downer of a bday yesterday b/c everyone at school was all, "DUDE! YOU'RE 18!!" and he was all, "Uhhh, no. 17." Plus, he was the last one of all his friends to drive, which annoyed him no end.

my son was born a week before halloween. which is our favorite holiday. i'm excited for his first birthday this year. i get to take him trick or treating. i think he will be happy when he's older about his birthday. it's not too hot or cold. he gets a birthday and then a week later gets tons of candy. i have a sister who was born the day after christmas. she hates her birthday because she never gets a party or presents. my younger brother has a birthday in july. he gets to go to the amusement parks. she resents him for that.