Life as a Leach

This is Caleb's sweet friend, E.  He has really enjoyed getting to know her this year and they spend a lot of time together.  Apparently, she is the queen when they play Star Wars on the playground at recess.  :)  She is a really nice girl.  I'm glad he has such good taste! Unfortunately, Caleb is not bending down and the camera isn't at a weird angle.  E is pretty tall and Caleb is pretty short.  But they still make a cute pair!

Just as our Jedi Master was saying goodbye, the Darth Vader music starts (compliments of Matt!) and Darth Vader himself enters the party room.  Someone yelled, "Get 'Em!" (I'm still not sure who!) and then all you-know-what broke loose! I know he's the bad guy and all, but I kind of felt bad for poor Darth.  He was totally outnumbered! He challenged Caleb to a duel.  Caleb had SUCH a serious look on his face when he agreed!  I couldn't keep a straight face about it! Darth made a few good shots, but then his light saber flew out of his hand!  Caleb snatched it up and began battling double-fisted.  Poor Darth didn't stand a chance! He fell to the floor and was promptly tackled by many young children with pool noodle light sabers. And I stood by and took pictures.  :)

As I said, the Jedi training was the main focus of the party.  We did this for the second hour and the kids had an absolute blast.  Just look at their faces in these pictures! We had a wonderful friend from our church come and be our Jedi master.  Bill is pretty funny in real life, so I knew he would be perfect for this.  He did not disappoint!! The kids started out doing stretches to get them ready for the strenuous training.  They all took this so seriously!! He then had my nephew, who was his "Young Paduan," to demonstrate push-ups for strengthening exercises.  For some reason, the Jedi master didn't want to demonstrate them himself... I have to say, it's pretty funny watching these kids, who are mostly 6 and under, trying to do push-ups! Next came the team-building activities, which went over the kids' heads a little.  Bill realized this and simplified things a bit, but the kids were hysterical to watch! ...

 It's going to take a few posts in order to fully blog about Caleb's Star Wars party.  I'm separating it into a couple of different sections, but the Jedi training definitely deserves its own post!! I got most of my ideas from Pinterest.  You can see my Star Wars board here .  As usual, I take the ideas and put my own twist on them.  I do love going to Pinterest to get the ideas flowing though, and it's fun to see how others do their parties. We did the party a bit backwards, having kids eat as soon as they came in, then sing Happy Birthday and do cake, and then do presents....all before the activities.  That's because the activity was Jedi Training, and I wanted to push all of the tables back to give as much room as possible.  (Reason #237 why this party was not at my house!) So here's the overall look of the food table... I found these toothpicks at the dollar store.  I thought they looked like light sabers, but apparently I ...

If you're wondering if the kids had a good time at Caleb's Star Wars party, just watch this video of Darth Vader getting attacked by a bunch of young Jedis! There are many more pictures and videos to show!  :)