Holy Cake & Ice Cream Batman!

It was almost a sad day for Reid's birthday party, as five hours before the party this is what his cake looked like. Very sad.

If you go to the bakery in the grocery store and look completely desperate, as I did, they may be kind enough to sell you a plain un-iced cake. It turned out perfect. Well maybe far from perfect but a huge improvement from the pile of crumbs I had, and a much better option than the breast cancer awareness cupcakes they were selling.
I started to sew capes and couldn't finish them, but Robin was a good sport and finished the deed. All 30 of them!



The kids took a break from bouncing for smoke bombs and a kryptonite hunt. One little boy was scared of the kryptonite and asked if it would be okay if he didn't touch any. The others doubted me and were questioning the authenticity of the stuff. Some ran from the smoke bombs and some wanted to deeply inhale the stuff. Being the good parents that we are we sent each child home with more smoke bombs to share with their family.
This is as close as Reid got to Superman making an appearance at his party. He still looks thrilled.

I love making the most of their birthdays. It's great to be five!

Cinco

Our little dude, Reid, turns five today. In honor of this I learned how to make a freezer paper stencil. No one else seems to have heard of this trick so I thought I'd share it.


You print out your design (for us it was a #5) on a sheet of paper and trace it onto freezer paper. I bought this paper at the grocery store. Then you cut out the spaces that you want painted. Iron the paper to the shirt. It will lightly stick since the back of the paper has a plastic coating. This stops the paint from going through. Then roll fabric paint from any art store onto the design and...

peel away to see if you like your work. The only downside is that these are one time use only. I guess you could consider that a bonus because 'no one will have another shirt like it'. Who cares. I wish I could reuse the stencil to give these to Reid's buddies.

Reid loved it. I was happy because the #5 version of the shirt he had last year is $30 and I wasn't going to make that an annual purchase. Plus this was more fun.
Happy birthday kiddo!

Homecoming

Tonight Reid got to show his presence as a ladies' man when he carried the crown at McGuinness homecoming. Wearing a tie was almost a deal-breaker for this little guy. We went to try on dress clothes and all he could say was, "Why are you putting this tie on me? Get this off of me! Do I really have to wear this?" over and over and over. I have to say the end result was pretty good. I decided he could play around with his look by adding tennis shoes with flames. I think it adds a nice touch.

He gave a bouquet of flowers with a large shamrock to the little girl who helped with the duties. See what I said... Ladies Man!

They read his bio as they went on the field: Reid Henderson is the son of Robin and Missy Henderson (BMHS alum), and the grandson of Dean and Mari Imel (BMHS alum). He is four years old and will be 5 on Sunday. He attends preschool at Little Red Schoolhouse. His hobbies include karate, t ball, and collecting hot wheels. His accomplishments include riding a bike with no training wheels, and a skee ball score of 220. His favorite movie is Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back.

It was hillarious. The crowd got into it and cheered like crazy when they read the bit about no training wheels. Reid felt like hot stuff.
Luckily, this queen has also been our babysitter and swim teacher. A true ladies man always ends the night with a kiss for a pretty girl. Way to go Reid!

Mad Hatter Birthday

So this is the first of our two birthday parties for the month of October. I knew Gigi would appreciate some photos. The girls posing "mad" in their paper bag hats.

Thanks to many helpers it ended up looking very festive. Emiline even had a few guests get into the theme.

If anyone wants to borrow a flamingo croquet court it's available. Baby Margo already has plans for an Alice party someday...