TNT: Cedric’s 6th Birthday

Holy Cow! Where has the past six years gone? I can’t believe this cute little guy just turned six years old!

October 4th was Cedric’s sixth birthday. However, with Tom out of town for the St. George Marathon and a huge project I was working on over the weekend, we decided to do his birthday party on Thursday, October 2nd.

Cedric wanted a Skylander party.

Counting Ced’s siblings, we had 15 kids for the party!

First the kids played outside, then we had pizza for dinner.

Then it was time for games.

The kids each got a passport to visit the eight different Skylander elements (thank you Pinterest for the idea).

First was Magic. We made pop fizz using the diet soda and Mentos trick.

First we did a two liter.

Then everyone got a turn to do a little one.

The next element game was for tech.

We did a coin hunt with chocolate coins.

Then we did earth element.

The kids had to crush the ice cubes with tools and get the toy zombie out.

Then they found the water element.

They had to squirt the ‘bad guy’ bottles with water.

Then we went inside for life element.

This game was bubble wrap smash. Each kid got their own strip of bubble wrap to smash.

The sixth game was for air element.

They had to race a Skylander card across the table by blowing it.

Then we did a game for undead element.

The kids had to toss the ping-pong eye balls into the holes.

The last element was fire.

For this game I bought magic birthday candles that would spark while burning. The kids were mesmerized!

Then we sang “Happy Birthday” and Cedric blew out the candles.

He loved the Skylander cake! (it was worth buying a store made cake with the crazy week it had been).

Then we ate cake and ice cream

When they were done we turned on a Skylander music video on Youtube and danced.

Then it was time to open presents.

It was so cute, because I told Cedric to look the person in the eye and tell them “thank you” after he opened their present. This is how he looked as he exaggerated the gratitude.