Four Little Monkeys

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Good To Know He's Learning Something...

At the grocery store tonight, Logan helped me count the gallons of milk in our cart:

Logan: "One...Two...Three! Just like me! I'm three!"

Summer: "Yeah! That's right!"

Logan: "And the Cheetah Girls have three, and the Jonas Brothers have three!"

Who says you can't learn anything from the Disney Channel!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Logan's Potty Party

Logan filled his potty chart!!! That's over 88 stickers for using the potty! He has even been wearing underwear at night and keeping them dry. I think it's safe to say that Logan is potty trained!

Logan chose to go to Chuck E. Cheese last night to celebrate this big milestone. Yay, Logan! We are so proud of you!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

...Andrew had a birthday party!

As each guest arrived, we taped a Star Wars character to their back. They had to ask each other only 'yes' or 'no' questions in order to guess who they were. Then they got to wear their character on their front.

Hello, Princess Leia!

To test out our Younglings' shooting skills, each one had a chance to sit in the "pilot seat" to try to hit the space ships.

Once they proved their shooting skills, they were asked to save the Universe by destroying the Death Star. (Bryan painted this Death Star, by the way. Awesome, huh?!)

The next mission was to follow clues to rescue 10 Jedi action figures who were being held captive in various places throughout the house.

Luke Skywalker was freezing until these young Padawans came to the rescue!

For dinner, we had "Pizza the Hutt" and "Yoda Soda".

Logan got pretty upset when Andrew opened his presents: "I don't have any presents in my hands!"

Good thing Nana was there to make it all better!

The Padawans had passed all their tests, so they were presented with balloon "lightsabers." For practice, they were told to use nothing but the Force and their lightsabers to keep a balloon from touching the ground...

...and as you can imagine, all chaos broke loose!

The birthday Boy, in his best Jedi pose!

We ran out of time for the TIE Fighter cakes, so we sent one home with each guest, along with a little Darth Vader backpack ($1.00 at Target!!!), Star Wars goodies, pretzel "lightsabers", and their balloon lightsaber.

Jedi Treats

This year, I wanted to make a Darth Vader cake for Andrew's Star Wars birthday party. Andrew, on the other hand, wanted a Darth Maul cake. Wow! I didn't think I could handle that, so we kept thinking. Finally we agreed on individual mini TIE Fighter cakes.

From Wikipedia: "TIE fighters are fictional starfighters in the Star Wars universe. Propelled by Twin Ion Engines (hence the TIE acronym), TIE fighters are depicted as fast, fragile starfighters produced by Sienar Fleet Systems for the Galactic Empire."

Whew! I feel geekier already!

I made mini bundt cakes and drizzled them in vanilla frosting, then topped each with an Oreo, decorated as the window and piped vanilla frosting stars around the window.
Nana covered graham crackers in chololate and trimmed them to the shape of the wings. The wings were then attached to the ship cockpits with vanilla rolled wafer cookies (Pirouettes).
Look at all the chocolate covered scraps! DARN! Someone's going to have to eat those!
Here's our little fleet of fully edible TIE Fighters. What Jedi wouldn't love to devour one of these?
Nana dipped some pretzels in red and blue chocolate for awesome "lightsabers" for the guests to take home.