[waitinginnj]

My daughter will be 4 in October. My current plan was to have her party at school - cake and goody bags with her class and a small party at home for family and a some families that we socialize with - about 12 adults and a handful of children of various ages.

She just came home with her first offical "kid" party invite. Am I being a scrooge with no kid party at 4? The reality is that if I had a kid party, it would be the kids from school and two 3 1/2 year olds in the neighborhood.

My gut is that there is enough time for kid parties and there is no reason to start now. She is the oldest child in her new class, so she will be the first birthday. I can't use last year as a basis for my decision as we had a bash for 70 people to celebrate her birthday, first anniversary of being home, baptism etc. The major theme was birthday. That was truly a once do it once type of party.

Any thoughts from birthday party veterans?