WW: Captain Underpants Birthday Party {Linky}

We had Mica's 8th birthday family party this weekend. He wanted a Captain Underpants party. Capes were made, and underwear went over tan shorts for Mica, Isaak and their Cousins Evan and Elijah.

Here's the cake:

It's not perfect, but I was happy with it. I printed out his invite backwards.

Tape the image with wax paper on top of it to a cutting board. Just put the details on with frosting, freeze. Frost the rest, freeze. I put a white coat of frosting over that, freeze. Then flip it over carefully to put on the cake, freeze. Then SLOWLY peel off the wax paper. I was so unsure if this whole process would work, or not work. It did! YAY! It wasn't perfect, but hey it looked like Mica and Captain Underpants. I'm pretty sure I froze it too many times, but I like working over frozen frosting much more than melted.

Somehow more and more kept being added to Mica's Captain Underpants costume. Super hero cape, tan shorts, underwear, water gun, baseball helmet, and an Indiana Jones Satchel.

Here's Grandma and Isaak. Isaak has her wrapped around his little fingers.

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WW: Captain Mica Underpants

Mica wanted a Captain Underpants party. Who am I to trump his creativity? I did set some limits. He could have this theme for his family party, not his friend one. He could not just wear his underwear. He had to wear tan pants under them. He was annoyed with me when I told him about the no just underwear rule.

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 The party is this weekend. I've already posted an invite, but here it is again if you didn't see it:

Mica wanted capes, so I made them for Mica, Isaak and cousins Evan and Elijah. I got the idea from Jolly Mom, but kind of went my own route.

Here's Mica dressed up as Captain Underpants. He's holding his weapon, which is his lasso of toilet paper.

Totally Photoshoped. I had to do it.

Now I've got to figure out how to decorate the cake. It will be fun.





If you have a moment I have a giveaway up to win a Crazy Dog T-shirt. I also have a giveaway up to win an 8"x10" Easy Canvas. If you want to learn how to make the cape Mica is wearing go here.

No Sew, No Velcro Cape

I got the idea for making capes on my friend's site: Jolly Mom. I initially was going to follow her cape pattern. It was right there to use. How could I not? The capes I was making are for older kids.

Mica's having a Captain Underpants party. I said it could only be for his family party. I didn't want him running around in underwear around his friends. Even so I made him wear tan shorts with underwear over them. Mica is the type of kid that wants it all for his party. I give him what I can. For the rest I say, "Tough!"

If you are not familiar with this character here he is:

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It's an odd comic where toilet paper is his weapon. So strange, but Mica and his cousin Evan like him. It got him into reading chapter books.

I ended up sort of making up my own cape. I'm going to walk you through the steps.

I wasn't too excited about this next step. Captain Underpants has a red cape with black dots. Mica had to have the black dots. I thought it would look a bit like a watermelon, or ladybug. It does, but it's his party, and his cape. We made black dots. It works well to just trace around a jar with chalk. You can make whatever pattern for the capes that you want out of any color of felt.

You can leave the bottom straight, but Captain underpants doesn't have a straight bottom cape. I cut out a wave type pattern.

Ta da, here's Captain Mica Underpants with his toilet paper laso. I'll show more pictures for my WW.

Captain Underpants

Mica wanted a Captain Underpants party. I said, "No." to the friend party, but "Ok." to the family one.

He thought he was going to wear underwear and a red cape for his invites. I just made a vector of his face, redrew the rest of Captain Underpants and changed the color of the background. Then I'll do a banner of underpants at the party. We'll celebrate Daddy's party as well. He has to be ok with whatever theme Mica chooses. Just like I have to be ok with the theme of Emerson's birthday; for my birthday.

I told Mica that he, Isaak and his cousin's can wear underwear on the outside of their shorts, but that they can't run around with just underwear on. He was a little annoyed with me. I told him he was lucky I agreed to the silly theme.

Captain Underpants Really?

If you haven't been familiar with Captain Underpants here he is:

I have a love/dislike relationship with this super hero. I love that he got Mica into reading bigger books! I dislike that they spell things different, and have slang in the book. Our future generation gets enough silly abbreviations from texting. Like OMG! 

Mica looks over at me last night and says, "Mom I could have a Captain Underpants party for my birthday? Wouldn't that be cool? I could wear my underwear over my pants, and have a super hero cape on."

I said, "Let's stick with Superman. If you want we could have a submarine party. You want to invent a new one anyway."

Mica, "Captain Underpants is better!"

I said, "Mica wearing your underwear outside your clothes might be embarrassing."

I do have to admit that making a cake with that strange super hero would be fun. Maybe we could do that for the family party. At least they know my humor. They know my children were bound to be strange like me. It's not like Mica will be running around with only underwear. It would be on the outside of his pants. We'd all get a good laugh. I could make a banner of whitey tighties. Family brace yourselves in August!

Reading...

Mica has been reading Captain Underpants.

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He got through the series of Captain Underpants books I ordered through Scholastic. I decided to venture out to Target to get a few Magic Tree House books I've been hearing about. They did a segment on Nightline about how much kids love them. We settled on a series of 4. Then I got Isaak a Superman book.

Through some of our Target trip Mica read Isaak the Superman book.

It was hard pushing the cart. I'm certainly NOT complaining. I was happy that they were interested in reading.

In the car Mica started reading the first Magic Tree House books. He got through that pretty fast, too fast. Now it's 3:30 and he finished all 4 of them. They are chapter books. My little first grader is a book worm!

Now if only we could get him this excited and into math. Subtraction isn't his forte.