Hooray for Birthdays!!

 For Grant's 4th birthday this year, he requested a Super Hero party.  This was nice for me because I saved all of the Batman party decorations from last year when I was feeling much more ambitious about putting together a cool party.  Again, I didn't get any pictures of our decorated house (but it wasn't as all out as last year anyway).

  

The Superhero's underwent many tests to discover their true superhero powers:

We tested their super-speed with a few round of red light, green light.

We tested their X-ray vision with pin the Batman symbol in the circle, (one of the left over decorations :) 

We also tested their ability to withstand destruction with a few games of "Pass the Kryptonite", (basically hot potato with a glow stick).  I'm sad we didn't get any pictures of that because it seemed to be the kids favorite game.

And the cake...  As I was trying to finish this up at 11:30pm the night before the party I came up with two new rules for myself in regards to birthday party cakes:

1. Never try to do a fancy two-tiered cake without the proper two-tiered cake making equipment. (i.e. you need a cake leveler and and smaller pan--never try to cut your own 6 inch cake circle out of a 9 inch pan, it's a crumbly mess).

2.  It's probably better to just stick with a good ol' 9x13 pan for little kids birthday's.

 Of course, 4 year-olds don't notice if the cake is falling apart, they're just ready to eat it.  The 2 minutes of silence while they ate the cake was quite enjoyable for me.

 Tate lasted the longest and I believe was the most helpful in making sure every plate of cake had been cleaned.

 I was in charge of preschool the next day so we had a Superhero Preschool day and basically repeated the birthday party, with a few book readings and a craft thrown in.

 Grant had a great time with his two birthday parties and I'm glad the party part is done.  I think we will be switching to an every-other year party policy.

Grant is a fun, energetic, yet sensitive little guy and we are so grateful to have him in our family.  The other day Tate was extra grumpy after his nap, and when that is the case, he likes to be held in the rocking chair for a bit.  I had to get dinner started so Grant filled in for me and let Tate lie on him for awhile until he got over being grumpy.  It was so sweet!

And just in case you were wondering what it would be like to go for a joy ride in a cereal box: