Now We Are Six...

Somehow, Jared is now six. Not quite sure what happened--I can't believe how fast time is going! ...He's been anticipating this birthday much more rabidly than any of the others before. In fact, he decided not long after his Spiderman party last year, that he wanted a Superman party this year... I kind of tried to talk him out of it, because Superman was rather obscure, and I couldn't figure out how I was going to do it, but I finally agreed. Well, I eventually found out that Superman Returns is coming out...right now, at the time of his birthday. Interesting timing--he sure "called" that one. (Hello, marketing.)

Well, since our sons' parties are one of my major artistic outlets for the year, I went at it with full gusto. I ordered Superman party supplies on eBay (got a pretty good deal) because they weren't available in the stores yet (at least not the half dozen places I checked at...) Jared and I agreed on a cake design months ago. (Pictured below.) It is my most ambitious to date--and was quite exhausting. Yes, that is all icing. (You don't want to know how my food coloring [paste] went into it.) I also made a giant poster for a game of "Pin the 'S' on the Superman" (Don't have any pix of that.)

We had the party at a large picnic pavilion at the park closest to our home, with 12 kids! Most of them were from our homeschool group. We had a great time. The weather was lovely, and the kids played on the playground, looked at turtles swimming in the pond, and did all those fun things you do at parties. I think a good time was had by all. ((I'm glad Nathan's birthday is 4 months from now...))