The Party Continues

Saturday was Rome's big "Superhero Party". We invited friends and fam to come dressed as their favorite superhero to the Kansas City Superhero Academy. Jeff wore his uniform and led the activity for the kids to train and become "true" superheros. The kids were really cute and Jeff was really cute and well the whole darn thing was really cute.
He told the kids that to be a true superhero they needed 3 things:

1. A superhero name. Jeff was "Police Man". Rome was "Spider Man" and Capri was "Capri Marina Runyan".

2. Equipment. They were each given their own flashlight and then he told them to make a "Superhero hand". It was pretty much making their hand look like a gun. I give Jeff major points for this. He knows how I feel about guns and when he used the words Superhero hand instead of gun, he looked right at me with a little glimmer of "that's for you Aby" in his eye.

3. Bravery. Jeff told the kids that being brave didn't mean you never get scared, it means you do something even though you ARE scared.

Jeff showed them how they were going to look for, find, and capture a "bad guy". In this case, the bad guy was Curious George. Perhaps George got a bit TOO curious if you know what I mean.
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They each got to go down into our dark basement with their flashlights and help Jeff find and capture Curious George. They all really loved it (we only had one kid get scared) and were VERY proud of themselves.

Personally, I was proud of Jeff. It's cheesy I know, but I can't help it. No, police work isn't going to be Jeff's lifelong career - hopefully. But for now, I am REALLY proud of him. His job is very hard, very dangerous and pays very little. But still, he is doing something that is very real. And there are so few times in life that you experience something so real. It's kind of hard to explain, and I'm way off the subject of Rome's party, but still. . . It's something that has been on my mind. Maybe I'll get my thoughts together on the subject in another post.

Back to the party, cake was next. Both Rome and Capri absolutely L-O-V-E the cakes at Walmart. This is seriously the part of their birthday they look forward to the most. Capri has had the theme and cake for her 5th birthday picked out since pretty much the day after her 4th birthday. And Rome had decided on Spiderman months and months ago. Pretty much ever since he discovered Spiderman. EVERY time we go to Walmart I get asked a dozen times, "Can we go see the cakes??!!" When I say yes, they literally dance like little sprites in front of the bakery department and sing praises to the cakes. So needless to say, when I finally brought out Rome's Spiderman cake it was the culmination of months of waiting. Of course he promptly put his hand in the red frosting and got it on the carpet.
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Rome scored some great gifts, including an awesome Pirate Ship from his Grandpa Greg and Grandma Lori. Thanks so much - he plays with it every day! He also got a cartload of clothes from Mar-mar and Larry. Perfecto! (PS - Cathy, they all fit!)

When everybody had gone home we looked at Sable and this is what we saw. We have no idea how she ended up like this, other than we know that frosting was involved. Poor ignored baby!


So another birthday bites the dust. Next up, "Strawberry Shortcake". Oh and Mom, NOW Strawberry Shortcake wears pink brimmed hats. Got any ideas on how to make that??? Seeing as it was YOU that put the idea of hats for everybody into Capri's head and she has mentioned it to me approximately 1.8 million times since, I think it's only fair that you figure it out.