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40 Funny & Sweet Instagram Captions For Your Baby’s First Birthday
You’ll want to remember this forever.
by Kristina Johnson and Katie McPherson
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There are so many moments you’ll want to capture in photographs during your baby’s first year, and turning 1 is perhaps the biggest milestone of all. If you’re planning to share some special photos on social media to mark their big day, you’ll need some funny, sweet, and sentimental captions for first birthday pictures. (Hey, with all the work that goes into throwing a kid’s birthday party, you deserve to post about it.)
Whether you’re going all out with your celebration or keeping it simple with a smash cake and some family and friends, you’re obviously going to need to take tons of cute photos to remember everything. You only turn 1 once, after all, and you and your child will both want to look back on these special memories someday. Your little one may not remember their party, but seeing all the photos you took and how happy everyone looks, they’ll know just how loved they’ve always been.
Finding the right captions for first birthday photos will help convey the magic of the day, and then, you don’t even have to come up with them yourself. These first birthday captions are perfect for a special baby's big day, whether you want something funny, something sentimental, or something perfect for that epic cake smash.
Funny first birthday captions
- You’re our ONE and only (seriously, we’re never doing this again).
- You were all I ever wanted, and I still can’t believe you are mine. I also still can’t believe how loud you are.
- Happy first birthday to you and to my C-section scar. May you both continue to grow and stay strong.
- I can’t believe we made it one whole year, and tonight I’m going for this glass of wine like you went for that cake.
- Happy birthday to my baby, who does not even know it’s his birthday and cried all day.
- You know, they should really make Happy 1 Year Of Keeping Your Kid Alive hats for parents.
- Here’s to the next year of early mornings, big feelings, and wiping butts.
Literary first birthday captions
- “I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be.” — Robert Munsch
- "When I was one, I had just begun." — A.A. Milne
- “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you.” —Dr. Seuss
- “Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better.”― Sanhita Baruah
- “All children, except one, grow up.” —Peter Pan
- “Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.” — Peter Pan
- “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” — Jess Lair
- “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” — Charles R. Swindoll
- “Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.” — Kate Douglas Wiggin
Instagram captions for first birthday smash cake pictures
- Fun fact: you don’t need all of your teeth to eat cake.
- Your first taste of sugar became your first bath of sugar.
- Let them eat cake! And let them stay little.
- A first birthday is the perfect excuse to try some cake.
- Hulk Smash? More like CAKE SMASH.
- To be fair, I want to eat all of my birthday cakes like this, too.
- If you can’t blow out the candles on your own cake, you might as well smash it.
- He can’t say bath yet, so this is how he asked to play in the tub.
- She’s sugar and spice and everything nice, but for today, mostly just sugar.
First birthdays are sentimental for so many reasons, so be sure to take all the pictures you want to commemorate this special milestone for your family.
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