Cal's Dynamite 3rd Birthday!

Flippin' sweet...Cal is 3!  We celebrated Cal's birthday a few weeks ago, his real birthday is November 28, but we had a party for him a few days early!  For his birthday party, he asked to have a Napoleon Dynamite birthday.  Yep, it's pretty much the best movie ever to him.  Most movie's Cal won't sit through, but he loves Napoleon and is just entranced when he watches it.  I had to convince Emma and Cal to watch it and I didn't think they'd like it, but they sit and giggle and get a kick out of it.  (I do, too!)  We dressed him up like the star of the show.  No Napoleon is complete without crazy hair, oversized wire frames, a Vote for Pedro shirt, tight jeans and some moon boots.  We put this little number together quickly.  He looked so cute and thought it was pretty cool he got to be like Napoleon for the day!  Yesssssss!  We also decorated like the dance scene with streamers all over the ceiling.

Emma wanted to be Deb, so we put on a pink shirt and pulled her hair into a side ponytail, and she

was good to go!

GOSH!  Cal has been into quoting Napoleon lately, he likes saying "gosh" and "idiots" (the latter we're trying to convince him that's not a good one to say).  

We based his party off the movie.  We started the movie, and would do activities when they came up.  That was a nice way to break things up, perfect for Cal!

Watching the movie and eating Kip's chips.

Our first thing we did was lunch!  After the scene in the cafeteria for the first time, we paused the movie and ate some food.  "Tina, you fat lard, go eat your dinner!"  

We had "Get your own tots" and "flippin' sweet corndogs".

Preston High veggies

Dang Quesda-dillas

Deb's 1% milk & Idaho farmer's protein drink

Kip's chips

The kids in the dining room-transformed into the cafeteria.  Cal just wanted to invite his 2nd cousins, Morgan and Kyle.  So those were the party guests.  They're always so much fun and such cute kids!

Present time - Cal was so excited and had so much fun with all of the presents he got!  Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa, he loves what he picked out from you, the Boomer's Flippin' Fire Rescue and the Thomas bouncy ball. 

Enjoying his presents.  He kept saying "that's pretty coo" about his presents!

This is the cake I threw together.  It was a fun and pretty easy one to make.

 Cake, yum!  Cal wanted strawberry cake, and picked out some ice-creams.  We ate the cake when Pedro got his Felicitones cake. 

 Glamour shots by Deb Mom. 

Kyle holds Lucy.   

They also got goody bags, and would get a little something to put in it when a related event would happen in the show.  They got chapstick for "my lips hurt real bad!", pencils for when Napoleon was drawing a liger, bubble gum when Summer was popping some bubbles, and dum dums when he said "you guys are dumb!". 

We did an Uncle Rico's football toss outside. 

We used our tire swing in the backyard and the kiddos tried to throw the football through it.  "How much you wanna bet I can throw this football over that mountain?"

The kids paired up and drew each other.  Their pictures were really cute.  Luckily, they didn't spend three hours shading upper-lips.  (:

We also attempted to make boondoggle (spelling?) keychains.  Doesn't that just take you back?  Lucy had a fun time playing in it.  It was a fun party, and Cal had a memorable birthday! 

Cal loves doing the dance from the movie.  That's how we ended things off, with him dancing!  He wanted to do it "all by meself", so that's what he did.  Then the girls wanted to do it.  He's got some pretty sweet moves, I have to admit!  For some reason, the video doesn't want to load.  I'll post it on FB or something.

Cal's real birthday was on Monday.  We had a fun day reading together, playing with his new birthday toys, talking about when he was born, made messes, and we had pizza for dinner and watched a new movie he got for his birthday.  He's getting so big, and is such a cute, busy boy!  We love him so much!  He is always saying and doing the cutest (and sometimes most frustrating) things.  He's a keeper for sure!  Hope all of your wildest dreams come true, little buddy!

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY CALLAHAN!