As of today, my Jonas is four years old. We had been planning on having an all-out party for him since last year he didn't get one due to our big move (we bought a house and moved in four days before his third birthday). We had thought he would have a Batman theme and were looking for someone to show up dressed as Batman, tights and all...
But right before I started gathering party supplies he told me he wanted an
Aquabats party. I said OK and that I wasn't sure if there were Aquabats party supplies, but we'd figure something out. Turns out there
are Aquabats party supplies but only online at one web site. Before ordering I made sure he actually wanted an Aquabats party, and he told me he wanted "an Aquabats WATER BALLOON birthday!" So that's what we did...
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| Invitation front |
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| Invitation back |
So the Aquabats would be an actual rock band who also happen to be super heroes. I was a fan in the 90's but sadly never got to see a live show where they dress in their super hero costumes and battle evil monsters while playing music all live on stage. They now have a TV show for kids on The Hub and there's a season on Netfilx. Rock band + super heroes = awesome in Jonas' book.
For Jonas' cake, I made it chocolate with buttercream icing and drew the Aquabat logo guy on it. I also made a bunch of funfetti cupcakes with
cookie burgers on them (thanks Pintrest!) in honor of one of Jonas' favorite segments on an episode of the show:
Burger Rain.
(You can watch a video of Burger Rain at the end of this post.)
I altered some decorations I had from Charzie's Yo Gabba Gabba party (I'll have to post on that later) to make them Aquabats-appropriate. And we had fruit, veggies, chicken nuggets, cheese & crackers to snack on.
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| Decorations & snacks |
I had ordered some official goodie boxes & fillers for our kid guests, and then Jonas helped me choose some extra stuff to stick in there, too.
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| Guest loot |
We started out just hanging out and snacking. I had a water table set up for the two-and-under crowd. Then we really kicked things off with a water balloon toss.
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| Water balloon toss |
Next, the kids got to take turns chucking water balloons at Snakey. Snakey is actually a monster from the show. I painted him on cardboard and covered it with contact paper. After they all had a couple turns, we had them line up and attack together. They thought it was awesome.
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| The boys chucking water balloons at Snakey |
But even
more awesome than that was when they got to use a water balloon
slingshot to battle the Floating Eye of Death (another actual monster from the show, which I also painted & contact-papered). I rigged this bad guy up on the kids' fort. I tell you what, boys ages 3-6
were all about that slingshot.
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| This guy had some fantastic aim. |
After defeating Snakey and the Floating Eye of Death, we had a water balloon and water gun free-for-all. Then it was cake time.
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| Cake time |
Jonas blew the candle out at the wrong time and freaked out. I re-lit it, he blew it out at the end of
Happy Birthday and all was well.
We had cake and ice cream (vanilla or "monster" which had M&Ms and cookie dough in it) and then opened presents. Jonas got quite the birthday loot! The big surprise was our big gift at the end...
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| Jonas discovering his drums |
Yes, we're crazy and bought our four-year-old drums,
real drums, for his birthday. Kid's got rhythm.
And of course, Jonas being Jonas, had to go and do this:
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| This picture sums up Jonas |
Now watch yourself some
Burger Rain!
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