Tanner's 6th Birthday

We decided to let Tanner have his first "friend" party this year.  He ended up having 4 school friends, 4 church friends, 4 cousins, and of course 4 siblings come.  The party was on his actual birthday! After consulting the internet, we came up with quite a Superhero adventure. They were invited to wear their own superhero gear and when they got there, we had pizza and cool aid. We started the activities by having them do an obstacle course to practice their super powers.  They had to climb up the slide like Spider-man and come down the ladder in the playhouse, then they had to practice flying like Superman on the swings on their bellies.  Then they jumped through hoops on the grass to prepare to jump over a building in a single bound(a stack of wood blocks).    Then we gave them each a cape and explained that there was an evil villain in the neighborhood out to steal all birthday cakes!  Just about the same time, the villain showed up(sounding a lot like Peter's dad) and dropped "bombs" all over the lawn.  These were balloons that the kids had to pop to diffuse.   Then we gave them masks and explained that they had better protect their true identity in case the villain came back.  Well, he did of course, and this time he threw "Kryptonite" all over and ran away laughing.  These were large green floral marbles.  The kids took turns picking them up with tongs, so that they would not loose their super powers and put them in a cooler so that it could be disposed of.  

  
Then we gave them all bands for their wrists to help give them strength.  We also gave them silly string and called them web slingers.  By this time, the kids were just waiting for the villain to come back.  Sure enough:

Once he was defeated, Peter arrested him and took him away.



I hung red and blue balloons on the playhouse and hung blue streamers on the overhang of the back porch to look like webs. I printed up signs that said "Pow", "Pop" etc. and put them around as well. I also found various lanterns and pinwheel type things at the dollar store that matched(but were for the 4th of July).  I was so busy this day, that pictures were more of an afterthought.  But here is is Superhero cake. It was Ice cream sandwich cake and the superheros are from the plastic bags that the party favor candy came in.



Tanner received lots of Spiderman stuff.  His voice got more excited and high pitched with each one.




SUPER Lily!!!!






  On Sunday we had a family dinner/party, which was also tons of fun.  We did Tanner trivia, which was fun because half the answers were Spiderman.  Everyone would shout it out every time.

   About a week before his birthday, Tanner decided to start decorating.  He and Peter found a bunch of his Spider-man works of art to start, and Tanner diligently made more every day up to the party and added it to the walls.  This was the wall with the most, but it was everywhere! 



Tanner was over the top excited about his cake.  He had begged for these figurines at the store recently to no avail.  I thought they would make great cake toppers though.

My video camera ran out of battery when we sang to him, but he was being so cute.  I have several pictures instead.

















This was when he accidentally coughed instead of blowing.  Funny, but ewe.

Spiderman projector from Grandma.

Peter and I decided to get Tanner Avenger costumes which worked out well since he got Spiderman everything from others.  He loves to wear costumes, so this worked out great.





This was convenient for the activity we had planned.  I charged the video camera and the kids all wore the costumes and we told them to go outside and make a movie.  That's it.  Peter took the video and they had a blast acting silly.  Then we all went in the playhouse and watched the footage and laughed.















Aren't they cute little superheros?

It was a great end to all the Birthday-palooza that we have had going on.  Then I took a 2 day nap.  Well, I wanted to anyway.