Cooper's Friend Party

OK, I don't know if I am ready for this or not as this is not going to be a short post. I can bet that Stace doesn't think this will be done anytime soon as she said, "You planned this so you have to post it on the blog." I will try to make this short, or in the in the words of Inigo Montoya, "Let me 'splain. [pause] No, there is too much. Let me sum up."

To start off with I have to say that I added way to much stress to last weeks' stress levels when I told Cooper that he could have a party. Stace didn't think she could do it, with everything else going on, so I said I would take care of it. Sorry Stace, but I am glad to hear you laughing again! (Ha ha...).

Anyway, Cooper decided that he wanted a SUPER HERO party so we went with that theme. We sent out the invites that invited the friend to come to SUPER HERO TRAINING at the Coop Cave -- Super hero attire optional.

Cooper was Bat Man -- his fav! Dun na na na na na na na na Du na na na na... Coop Man! So of course the cake had to be the bat signal.

We put some basic black streamers up to make the Coop Cave in the TV room (gotta have a TV in a Coop Cave!). As you can see, and probably would have guessed, Coop occupied himself for well over 15 minutes just running through the streamers.

When each kid came they got a bag of things needed at any Super Hero training. It consisted of; a Super Hero plane, a Super Hero figure, a Super Hero car, and one score sheet to keep track of their points earned at each training activity.

Arrival time and occupy the kids while others are coming = decorating their Super Hero Planes.

Training Activity #1: Learn how to land your Super Hero plane. (There was a big orange target they were trying to land on.)

Training Activity #2: Learn how to swing your Super Hero in a bucket and knock over the "Bad Guys". (The problem was that I kept hearing words like "Strike" and "Spare" for some reason. I have never heard of any Super Hero call it a spare when they knock down the bad guys on the second chance!)

Training Activity #3: Learn how to drive your Super Hero car at lightening speeds. (It was a good thing that the kids didn't car that because of the bricks on our driveway the cars ended up rolling across the finish line more than driving across it.)

Training Activity #4: Learn how to jump your Super Hero car over the PERILOUS PIT OF DOOM (A.K.A. - The Pooh Bear Huggies box).

Training Activity #5: Learn how to have your Super Hero jump over tall buildings and land safely in the hidden Super Hero lair (A.K.A. - The Pooh Bear Huggies box).

Finally, after all the tiresome training our Super Heroes were ready to take on the bad guys and save the princess in distress.

We met in the Coop Cave to go over the dangerous mission. I showed them a print out of the bad guys (Army Men) surrounding the princess ($2 Barbie Doll that was 5x the size of one of the bad guys). Their mission was that they had to maneuver through the back yard, with out being injured, capture all the bad guys by putting them in prison, and find the princess. The catch was that they couldn't save the princess until all the bad guys had been caught.

Here is the opening of the gate! They were some excited Super Heroes. The funny thing is that you notice the first one out of the gate is the older sister (Super Hero Pinky -- complete with cape!) who is supposed to be taking it easy after her tonsils had just been ripped out.

Here is a nice shot of some of the bad guys grieving in prison.


Super Hero Pinky got to be keeper of the prison gate, and she loved the responsibility.

The princess was left dangling from the side of the house and no way to get down -- except for flying Super Heroes of course!

The victory celebration after the princess was back in her castle safe and sound. (Apparently Coop was tired of celebrating and just wanted to know what his next mission was!)

Of course we had to have the normal "Pass the 'Super' Parcel" at the end of all the strenuous activites. Much to Coop's disapointment he didn't get the ending prize (A Wolverine water gun).

We ended with the cake. Our Super Cooper needs to work on his Super lung capacity and blowing skills because it took him 3 tries to blow out the 6 candles. We were just glad he didn't spit on the cake. You know, it would have been 'Super' spit and no one wanted to see (or eat) that.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUPER COOP / COOP MAN! WE LOVE YOU!