Dexter's Diggs: Superhero Birthday!

Monday, August 1, 2016

Superhero Birthday!

My baby is FOUR!!

I'll post a complete Four Year Old update (hopefully) soon, but for now here is a recap of Madden's Superhero Birthday Party.

Picking a birthday theme by an almost four year old is nearly impossible. It changed on a daily basis. It went from a superhero birthday, to race car, to baseballs, then dinosaurs, to Paw Patrol, to PJ Mask, then trains, and back to superheros and all over again and again. Finally he settled on superheros and that is what we went with!

The cake went about the same way as the birthday theme but once we decided on superheros he knew right away he wanted to have both Spider-man and Batman on it. I found a similar cake on Pinterest that I attempted to replicate. Madden chose strawberry for his cake flavor, which was a good thing because his cousin Stella is not a fan of chocolate. I made a fresh strawberry cake with fresh strawberry buttercream frosting. The spiderweb behind the #4 is made from melted chocolate, that was actually Madden's favorite part and the only thing he wanted to eat when it came to cake time. He made up for it the next couple of days since we had leftovers.

Harper even got in on the superhero action, wearing a Superman shirt accessorized with leggings and a bow. It pays to have an older brother and use his old superhero onesies :)

I attempted to have some outdoor activities for the kids, however Mother Nature decided she wanted it to be hotter than Hades outside. You literally started sweating as soon we you stepped outside. The kids didn't mind to long, we Vaporized some Villains with their web-shooters (aka silly string) and played a short time in the Batcave aka the playset tower. We kept the Brick Wall downstairs in the basement for them to knock down with their super human strength and burn some additional energy in the bounce house we have set up in the storage room. They really just love running around the house, chasing each other and playing with balloons.