Birthday

When Steven Spielberg launched a hoodie-wearing lad on a BMX bike into the sky, alien buddy tucked safely in carry basket, he could not have known that this was the iconic scene that would spark thousands of Halloween costumes – and now birthday party themes!

Okay, these are not quadruplets, but twins with birthday cake replicas of themselves. Stay with us because this is amazing.

Every year after the whole Christmas debacle is done and dusted and we have made it through the shopping madness that is the buying back-to-school-shoes, I sit down with a sigh of relief. There is space and quiet. A break from the crazy rushing and

Rebecca Judd revealed she’d been understandably slow off the mark with birthday parties, since her toddler twins arrived, so this year she went ALL OUT for daughter Billie’s fourth birthday, enlisting a cast of many to produce the perfect Paw Patrol “Pawty”. Prepare to be inspired!

There’s something extra special about first birthday parties. It’s the first chance many parents have to celebrate their little ones with friends and family, and the newborn haze has cleared enough to shake off the sleep deprivation and have a glass of bubbles or two! 

Model Behati Prinsloo and her musician husband Adam Levine’s daughter Dusty turned one this week. She celebrated the occasion with a small herd of nightmarish unicorns, possibly signalling years of therapy are ahead.

Two sisters who fell pregnant around the same time and gave birth to their babies just 20 minutes apart have celebrated their daughters’ first birthdays with a magical photo shoot.

Gwen Stefani (pictured above with son Apollo) shares lots of snippets of family life on social media, but son Zuma’s Harry Potter party totally takes the sorting hat birthday cake!

Um. Straight from the What-The?-Ha-Ha-Ha Files comes this lovely mum’s attempt to make cookies in the shape of the number one. Titter.

A US mum has gone where no mum (as far as we know) has gone before, heroically pulling together an awesome Mrs Doubtfire party for little boy Evan’s birthday.

Magic Mike star Channing Tatum just celebrated his 37th birthday. His daughter Evie made sure it was a candy-coated celebration with the most impressive, kid-decorated cake we’ve seen in quite some time!

First, there were gender reveal cakes, then decadent smash cakes (and the subsequent bathing photos), and then the ridiculously gigantic cake toppers. Now, finally, a non-cake birthday trend is captivating the internet. Yep, it’s a taco smash. And yep, we love it.