4th birthday-Jedi Style

My little Grady is about to turn 4 years old on the 22nd and this weekend was his BIG party. He's been telling people for a good month that he's going to have a "saw waaaars party." (Many, many people thought he was having a shower party but no....Star Wars.)  He was so excited and counting down the number of "sleeps" before party day.

For weeks, I browsed pintrest to find ideas for his Star Wars Party and between that and my Mom's ideas, I think we pulled it off pretty well!


A large view of the party table.

Wish I had a Leia picture of Leia chips....but Grady wanted me to use the Darth Maul one.


Han Solo in grape "Carbonite" jello. Big hit with fellow Star Wars nuts.

These were GREAT for little fingers. I used fancy toothpicks for the Grape Sabers. Grady and his friend Mylee LOVED eating the grapes off of swords. The Pretzel Sabers are just small pretzels dipped in chocolate. The perfect size for little hands.

Asteroid (yes...I know it's spelled wrong) Candy......Chocolate rock candy. The kids got a kick out of eating rocks.

We've had this recipe for years from the Star Wars Cookbook (yes, there is a Star Wars cookbook.....2 actually.)  They are very yummy. Two kinds of chocolate chips and a hint of cinnamon.

We decided to go with cupcakes instead of one big cake. My Mom did a wonderful job making and decorating them. I found a wonderful book at the party store that had a ton of Star Wars decorations. These were supposed to be table confetti but we tapes toothpicks to them and instant cupcake decortations!
 



Yoda Soda. Looks disgusting; tastes yummy! It's just lime sherbet and Sprite (or 7Up...but I hate 7Up.)

Another concoction from the Star Wars Cookbook. Mini hot dogs wrapped in breadsticks to resemble TIE fighters. They tasted good hot or cold!

The birthday boy and his Star Wars themed table

Present time!





Grady's big present was a trampoline. After talking to his therapists we decided he would really benefit from it. He has some trunk and upper body weakness (he also JUST learned how to jump in the past year.) so this will be some great exercise for him!

And shockingly the Ohio weather was nice enough for the kids to play outside in February! First time in since Grady was born that we haven't had a blizzard on his birthday!

And it all makes for a very tired Jedi at the end of the day. Grady had a wonderful birthday party and is still talking about how much fun he had! Thanks everyone for coming and sharing this special day with us!