Holy Cake and Ice Cream, Wiley Turned 4!

August 17th was Wiley's 4th birthday. We celebrated the weekend before with a Superhero themed party. Wiley has been into superheroes all year and so that's the theme we decided to go with. We started the party with the kids arriving and decorating their superhero masks. Then we all went outside for Superhero training.

The training stations were:

#1 - Spiderman's Web Training - Kids swung on a rope swing and then ran over and sprayed a photo of a villain with web spray (silly string).

#2 - Flash's Super Speed Training - Shane was our "Speeding Bullet" and kids took turns racing him. Big surprise, they were all faster than a speeding bullet!

#3 - Batman's Martial Arts Training - Kids took turns punching and kicking a boxing bag with boxing gloves on.

#4 - Hulk's Super Strength Training - Shane led the kids through different exercises to build up their muscles. Then they each had to try and lift up a planet (exercise ball).

#5 - Superman's X-ray Vision Training - Kid's took turns identifying an object only by feeling it with their hand and not looking.

#6 - Superman's Flight Training - Kids took turns "flying" up and rescuing a stuffed racoon out of a tree. They flew up by lying on a towel and putting their arms out like they were flying. Two dads lifted them up and flew them over to the tree.

After the kids completed their superhero training, we had a graduation ceremony for them. Each kid was called up one by one and received his diploma, super power wrist bands, super cape, and web spray (silly string). Each child before the party had given me information about their own choice of superhero name, super power, and favorite color. I made capes for each kid in their favorite color with a logo on the back that represented their power. They looked so cute running around in their little capes and masks.

After the ceremony, the famous villain the "Birthday Basher" (Shane) ran in and threatened to ruin our party. Well what else was a bunch of new superheroes to do but capture the villain? So they all ran after him, spraying him with their web spray. It got a little crazy at this point as several of the kids had trouble getting their cans to spray. Some of the kids were even afraid of the "Birthday Basher". At this point, several of the kids began crying and it turned into chaos! Wiley was having a blast until his spray quick working on him. Then he began crying as he watched the other kids spraying his Daddy. I think he was afraid they were hurting him. This part of the party definitely didn't go the way I had hoped! Eventually the crying stopped and all the kids got the "Birthday Basher" and took him to a friend of ours who was dressed as a cop. He handcuffed the "Birthday Basher" and took him away but not before he could yell out that he had one last surprise for us inside.

When we got inside, there were bombs (chocolate donut holes with cake candles in them) all around the cake. After singing happy birthday to Wiley, he had to use his Super breath to blow out the bombs.

Then we all ate lunch which was a bunch of different superhero foods. After lunch and cake, the kids played for a bit. Then we opened presents by playing "Pass the Kryptonite" game (like Hot potato). As each kid got "out" they helped WIley open his gift from them. Everyone was able to stay after for quite awhile so they all got to play a bit while the parents visited.

Shane's parents came to town for a visit and were with us during the party. It was so nice to have them here to celebrate with us, plus they were such a huge help with the party and Evie! I'll post more about their visit in another post!