4 Birthdays in October... How to Make Sure Everyone Feels "Special"

I don't have "friends" parties for my kids until they are in school so you could just do the little one's with Daddy's birthday.
One thing you could do with the other 2 kids is just pick a weekend for each of them and have their parties with their friends and then have a "Grandparents" party all at once.
I have a daughter that will be 4 on 2/6, son turned 2 on 1/25 and our daughter we are adopting will be 7 on 2/2. The 4 and 7 year olds are special needs so they'll always have a party together and we'll just have a seperate one for our son. It's much easier to have the 1 "Grandparent" party though. Just have each of the kids pick out a 6 pack of cupcakes that they like for the Grandparent party. They love the rings and things that are on top of them so they never complain about not having a cake for that party.
Good luck,
J.
Mom to 4, soon to be 5 through another adoption :o)

Growing up I kind of had the same situation in my family. My mom didn't plan it either
April 24 - brother
April 24 - Sister (8 years older)
April 25 - brother (3 years older then brother and 5 years younger then sister.)

Now added to the family is
April 24- sister-in- law married to brother that was born April 25 and
April 27 - my husband.

My mom gave each child their own little cake and let each of them have their own birthday party with thier friends. The only thing that was shared was the family birthday party. They didn't seem to mind it because they were each getting two parties. I think your kids are far enough apart in age that it shouldn't be a huge deal as long as you make them all feel special. as far as your husband, you can make it special for him ;)

Also, two of my three kids birthdays are 3 weeks apart and we always combine the family party. They don't seem to mind it either as long as they each get their own friends party.

Good luck!
B.

you could get each one something special to wear (pin, crown, etc) - I am not sure how the oldest would be with this but worth a try. Instead of one big cake have 3 smaller ones, each with their name. When you sing happy birthday do it one time for each. If people bring presents for each then you could have individual areas for people to drop off presents, you could designate those places with different balloon bouquets. I think the most important thing is to make their actual birthday all about them. Do something special on that day for each one and the birthday party will not be that big of an issue. Good luck!

That's tough! I think having a family birthday party is a great idea, but I also know little ones might feel a bit gypped if they always have to share their celebrations.
If it is too much work to celebrate birthdays 4 days in a row (and I imagine it would be) perhaps, in addition to the family festivities, you can have each child pick a different day of the month that can be their special day. On that day, you can do their friend party, schedule a date afternoon/night with Mom and Dad (dinner and a movie, bowling, etc.), have them choose a family outing, or make them king or queen for that day where they can pick the meals and activities for the whole day (within reason, of course).

Hi K., oh what fun. I just had a great thought even though it may be a long day it would be fun to have every one pick a moment through out the day. So breakfast belongs to son and husband. The daughters and mom fix their favorite breakfast foods maybe even make it a brunch picking a theme especially if they have a favorite sport or activity. Then the girls special moment is at dinner. The guys take over grilling or something a little more elegant. Bring out the china with candles and the whole nine yards. What a great opportunity to enjoying each others company over great food taking care of each other on a great time-each others birthday. Good Luck and I hope I got your creative juices following. A mystery party will be fun when your kids get older. Happy Birthday Everyone, A. J.

Take your husband out for a nice romantic dinner...any time of the month really he's an adult and should understand

Then when it's the kids birthdays the actual day let them pick out what's for dinner they're favorite or whatever, then have cake afterwards. Make it their special day decorate the house at the beginning of the week and your set.

Then have 1 big family party for everyone.

With friend parties like when they're in school alot of families only let the kids have a "friend" party every other year or every 2 or 5 years. Let your kids rotate who get's a friend party -or- let them have a sleep over type party and starting beginning of October the first weekend goes to the kid1 the second weekend goes to kid2 and so on...

I can't believe their birthdays are like that it's cool in one way but must be exhausting and financially hard.

That's just my ideas how I would do it to be fair.

Plan seperated days for everyone. Before and after birthdays if nessesary. Have that B-day person pick what they want to do for the day. It could be simple and unfortunately I could be expensive.
Of course once the birthdays come around have a birthday party for all of them. One big family bash. Thats what I would try to do. Either way it is a difficult thing to do with all the holidays around the same time.