FIVE

James is five now. What does that mean? He apparently can do all sorts of things, "now that I'm five". Watch Star Wars III, watch Harry Potter, roll out pizza dough without a stool, READ. Ok, still working on that one. But it is a big day and we celebrated it with, wait for it, I know you are on the edge of your seats, you will never guess this, a STAR WARS party! Oh wait, you figured that, well, ok.

We actually had Jedi Training for James's party. This party was pretty much a copy of John's 5 year old birthday party. James really wanted to have it at his Daddy's work, or as a backup, Mr. Tony's work, but we settled on the digging park. The first thing the younglings received at the party was a Jedi robe.



I made these. With my own two hands. And Ms Becky's and Ms Juliet's hands. And their sewing machines. I used this pattern. I had too. James kept wanting to wear a sweatshirt with a hood. They worked out pretty well, but they got too hot to keep them on eventually.

The first thing we did was lightsaber moves. I demonstrated some of the basic moves of attack and defense. The younglings followed my lead and thankfully, never hit each other.



Here is James finishing up the "slash/force" move with The Force.



Then we had a Jedi obstacle course. I had promoted then to Padawan at this point, but I don't think any one noticed. The highlight of the course was Mr. Mark acting like Sand People and shooting them with a spray bottle. The padawan deflected with lightsabers. Here is John on the way to the Sand People:



The last thing we did was a Jedi Scavenger Hunt. They were looking for Darth Vader. What they were looking for was this "Darth Vader Fiesta"



That is what James's kept calling it. I am personally against pinatas. It seems like they never work. I let them hack at it a bit with their lightsabers. Turns out, that was all it needed. Everyone had one turn and with one slash, Andy dealt the death blow:



I filled it with some pop-pops, Star Wars fruit snacks, and goldfish.

Finally we moved onto the birthday stuff. Lightsaber cupcakes!



Everyone loved them!





Andy's a juice head!



Just a few extra pictures. For James's actual birthday we went to Chuck E Cheese. That is actually a great little place. We had so much fun!