Hill Happenings: Everything is Awesome!

Friday, October 17, 2014

Seth turned 9! His birthday was on a Friday, so we had his party that day. He wanted a Lego Movie party, so we watched it, took notes, and got a lot of ideas.

As the party started, the boys just built with Legos while we waited for everyone to get there.

When everyone was there, I read the prophecy from the movie and told the boys that they would need to find the piece of resistance (lid) to stop the Kragle (Krazy Glue). Their job was to look for it as we played games that represented all the places that Emmett visited in the movie.

First, Emmett visited the Old West. The kids had to see how many tiny snakes they could drop in the boot.

Joel made a really funny squinty face, but it didn't help, Seth still got the most in.

Next, Batman rescued Emmett, so the boys played hot potato, passing a Batman button while Batman's song played - "Darkness! No parents!" It's really weird music.

Emmett then visited Middle Zealand, filled with castles and dragons. We played storm the castle. One team tried to tap the balloons onto the trampoline, while the other team used pool noodles to knock them off. The team that had the most knocked off at the end of the "Everything is Awesome" song won. The game didn't work out as well as I wanted, because the balloons kept popping. The boys still had fun with it though.

Cloud Coo Coo Land was the next stop. Emmett traveled up a rainbow to get there, then Lord Business destroyed the whole world - so the boys destroyed the rainbow pinata.

Emmett ended up in the ocean and was saved by pirates, so the boys had to walk the plank. We gave them different ways to cross the board like hopping on one foot. If you fell, you were out. Cole and Kade tied. They are both very athletic.

Back at Bricksburg, the boys played Pin the Pants on Larry (from the TV show Honey, Where Are My Pants?) We made this bucket to go over their heads but it didn't work, so we ended up using a blindfold instead.