Stanton's Superhero Birthday!

Stanton turned 5 this year, and he wanted a superhero birthday!
So we got superhero sibling costumes, and made our picture invitation for "Stanton's Superhero Academy Birthday," where you can join forces with Captain America, Wonder Woman and Baby Batman and come earn your cape by using your "Mighty Muscles" and your "Magnificent Mind" to"Leap over Lava", "Vaporize Villians" and "Rescue a baby!"
The kids arrived as children, but left as heros!
When the kids got there we decorated superhero cookies that had Thor, the Flash, Ironman and the Incredible Hulk's faces on them.
Baby Batman had too many cookies so he took a break from decorating to hang out with his grandmas.
After that we had our very own surprise visit from the Incredible Hulk!
This was just after he had busted out of his wrapping paper suit and tie. He flexed his muscles and roared as he ripped out of the paper and greeted the kids with his green face and bulging biceps, complete with his black hair that my mom dyed with her Mascara and his green latex Yoda feet from last year's party!
He was a big hit!
Then while we all ate pizza, and I heard the kids discussing how they could get the Hulk to join their superhero club. It was cute!
Next was our Superhero Academy obstacle course. It started out with superhero story to enhance their magnificent minds.
And then a trip down the slide to lift some heavy boxes with their mighty muscles, walking on a balance beam over a pool of lava, vaporizing villians with silly string and facing their fears of reaching in to a container of (fake) bugs and snakes to retrieve the baby's pacifier.
And finally, beating up the bad guy (a very nice but random neighbor boy who my mom just happened to bring with her, which worked out good for me because I was looking for someone that the kids could punch and defeat to rescue the baby. Robert turned me down.) So they punched his shield (and him) a whole bunch until he released the baby that he had hanging upside down by its foot.
I think that was all of the kids' favorite part of the obstacle course!

Then it was pinata time! All the little heros gathered around in their capes that Robert's mom made them (SO cute and SOOOO nice of her to sew 16 capes) to whack the huge 4 foot Buzz Lightyear pinata that I found when I was driving through Guadalupe one day for only $15, which I thought was an excellent deal, until I realized I had spent my life-savings filling it up with candy and prizes. Still, it was really fun, and impossible to break open! After everyone had a few good whacks, I had to just rip Buzz's arms off. I hope it wasn't too traumatic for the littler ones.

After cupcakes and presents the Incredible Hulk called it a night, but the kids still had fun running around and chasing each other for a while. They even had a couple hero/villian battles. I was happy that Stanton had such a good time and that he has so, so many wonderful little buddies to come to his party and be his friend! It was a very cute bunch of kiddos!

Stanton's actual birthday was on a Sunday, and I think he felt really special cause everyone at church kept telling him Happy Birthday and they sang to him in Primary. I had told him I would make him anything he wanted for dinner, so he chose red and green enchiladas with black beans and rice on Cars plates with Star Wars cups and pirate napkins. So that's what he got! He also requested yellow cake with chocolate frosting and mint chocolate chip ice cream, He even managed to blow all 5 candles out in one breath, which I'm pretty sure means his wish (to get a real Star Wars X-Wing that can fly us all to space) is going to come true.

Then we played with his birthday presents, a big boy bike and a Hot Wheels car ramp that shoots into an alligators mouth, but Daddy showed Stanton how to shoot it into other things, like over his head and into Winston's mouth, which was much more entertaining!
He had a very happy birthday, and it was fun to celebrate!

I can't even believe that my 1st baby is already 5! I look at this picture of him all the time and remember what a sweet little giant 10lb baby he was when he was born, and it makes me so happy and thankful to be a mom! It's so fun watching them all grow, but so hard to think of them getting older! I make them promise me on a daily basis that they will all be my baby's forever, and they always happily agree! I hope that never changes!
Happy Birthday to our little Stan Man! We love you infinity twenty six thousand eighteen two hundred fifty ninety-six! (That's what he and Noelle always say cause it's the biggest number they can think of!)