This weekend we celebrated Dominic's birthday yet again with a bunch of his friends for a real party. The theme - Spider- Man. For those of you that missed this grand party, I'll walk you through it play by play.
As the kids arrived they entertained themselves in the playroom which is the first thing you see upon entering our home, so i really couldn't have planned it any other way. Once everyone was accounted for I called all the kids into the kitchen to take a look at Dominic's cool Spider-Man cake. Everyone ooohhh'd and aaaahhhh'd and tried to stick their fingers in the icing. I then directed everyone into the dining room where we were going to make our spider crafts with tootsie pops, black felt, pipe cleaners and googly eyes. It was cute and would have made Grammy K proud, but held their attention for all of 5 seconds and most were up and back in the playroom again. When those that did participate in the craft (myself and a few other mothers) were finished, I asked the kids if they wanted to check out the cake again. They all got up and ran to the kitchen.
When we got there, the cake was GONE! And in it's place was a note from, none other than, Venom. Duh-duh-duh-DUH. It said he had taken Dominic's cake and we'd never find it. Not even Spider-Man could find it! Oh no, what were we to do???
I am pretty quick on my feet, so I suggested calling Spider-Man on Dominic's Spider-Man phone. He grabbed the phone from me and sighed angrily, "Mom, this is just a play phone," and brought it back into the playroom. One of the other mother's suggested calling from a real phone, so I grabbed that and Dominic's buddy was all too eager to call him and tell him what had happened to Dominic's cake. When he hung up, we went out in search of the cake, but it was no where to be found. As we were about to give up, Spider-Man peaked his head into the room and asked if he could help us! The kids went nuts! And 2 were scared right out of their ever living minds. Spider-Man said he would be more than happy to help us retrieve Dominic's cake, but first they would all need to be Superhero trained. So, out back we went.
Their first task was building scaling. And once again Uncle Michael's birthday gift to Dominic last year, while utterly outrageous and constituted us adding a 3rd car garage to house it, came in quite handy. Next, he brought them over to the rope swing so they could practice web swinging. Then on to the swinging horizonal bar where they practiced their Spider-Man hang. And lastly and definitely the most fun, was web slinging with silly string. During the web slinging training, we heard a ruckus in the basement. Spider-Man said he would check it out alone since they had not completed their training yet. In he went. There was shouting, banging, loud thumping noises, but next thing we saw was Spider-Man emerge unscathed with cake in hand. Venom, he said, had gotten away.
The kids finished silly stringing and received signed Certificates of Completion for Superhero Training from Spider-Man. We took a ton of photos with him and then Spider-Man said he had to leave to go after Venom. We all waved a sad farewell, but were excited to have our cake back and knew Spider-Man had more capers to solve.
We moved the party upstairs onto the deck for pizza and cake when in walked a Kennesaw Police Officer. Apparently, Spider-Man had called him for back up. We told him Venom got away, but that Spider-Man went after him, so he hung out for a bit, talked with the kids and showed them his car. So much for the pizza. When he left we went straight to cake, ice cream and presents. Dominic got more Spider-Man things than i even knew existed. And some of it was pretty cool too, like a talking Spidey room guard with motion sensor and Spidey and Sandman walkie talkies. Too cool. At the end of the party the kids went up into Dominic and Aurora's rooms where Spider-Man had left all the treat bags jumbled up in a giant web. The kids had to follow their web through the room to get to their treat bags. It was cute.
All in all it was a GREAT party. Dominic was so into it when Spider-Man was here. He kept telling Spider-Man he was going to help him catch Venom because he was tough and he would kick, hit and bite Venom if he saw him. Yup, that's my boy;) And when Spider-Man came out of the basement with the cake stating that Venom had escaped up the basement stairs, Dominic kept trying to get him to go the deck stairs with him into the house to get him. And when Spider-Man finally had to go, Dominic was beside himself because he so wanted to go with him to help catch Venom. And he keeps telling me that when he was climbing up his rock climbing wall Spider-Man told him "Good job, Dominic!" That is soooo dang cute! He remembers Spider-Man's kudos. My dilemma now...what to do for birthday #5???
