My boys will be one on April 1st...their golden birthday. My daughter had hers when she was two, and we got her a gold bracelet with her name engraved on it. Any ideas for boys, especially little boys? If you would go with some kind of jewelry, any recommendations of jewelers? Thanks!
UPDATE: I never knew golden birthdays were so unknown! It is when you turn the same age as the date you were born on...so my boys will be one on April 1st, my daughter's was two since her birthday is February 2nd. It's not a matter of "what is a one-year-old going to do with gold?" I want to do something that they can have as a keepsake. We put money in their college funds every month, so that is nothing special.
M.:
My first thought was "you are celebrating someone's 50th"...
I've NEVER heard the first birthday or any of the early years birthday's to be referred to as "golden"...
Since they are boys - I would find gold coins and not necklaces...that's me.
Happy birthday!
Maybe get them gold coins?
I've never heard of such a thing.
If it were me, for boys, I'd purchase some gold in their name and put it in a safe deposit box. I'd also purchase them a big collector's set of baseball cards for the year and put them in the same box. How cool would it be as an adult to have a set of mint condition baseball cards from your 1st birthday? :-)
what use does a 1 year old have for gold?
put something into a college fund.
give him something gold when he turns 50.
khairete
S.
I have never heard of a "golden" birthday. I tend to go with practical things and save the keepsake stuff for sweet sixteen and such.
What's a golden birthday? Is this a cultural/religious thing?
For my daughter's first birthday, we got her a silver baby comb from Tiffany's with her name and birthdate engraved on it. Cost around $100 at the time (6 years ago) just to give you an idea on cost. The girl comb has a pink tassel and the boy comb a blue one. They have other cute baby items as well. We wanted something to commemorate the birthday milestone of turning one, but not a toy, something she could keep forever. This was perfect.
Watches that they could wear when they're older.
A nice piece of art for their rooms - something that isn't babyish and could grow with them.
Nice wooden boxes (engraved if you want) to put special keepsakes in.
I googled "golden birthday" and now i understand : It is the birthday when you turn the same age as your birthdate. So if your birthday is July 7, your golden birthday is when you turn 7 years old or if you were born on May 23, your golden birthday is when you reach age 23. At first i thought you were celebrating a golden birthday, just because they were 1 were old, but now i see that they will be one on the 1st! How about buying a gold coin for each of them and then turning them into a tie tac or cuff links when they graduate from high school or something? Or making a big deposit to their college fund?
I'm not sure, but I think the golden birthday thing is more of a northern state thing.
We didn't celebrate it with gold, couldn't afford it. But we made it a special one for them. But their days were 26, 25, 12 so it's something they could relate to at those ages.
Gold coins would be great to give as someone else mentioned.
