Our entire family (including our car) dressed up in Spider Man attire and sported our spidery-selves to the Trunk ‘N Treat at our church. It was kind of a bummer that it was on a Monday night because Luke is usually in charge of remembering all the techy stuff and he met us there right after work. I had so much to bring that I forgot our camera! Of all things right?! But there were plenty of picture takers at the party!
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(Oh yeah we did also feature iron man and the Hulk at our car too…because they were big and cool looking…thanks Hensley’s for letting us borrow them!)
Okay so now that we are on the topic of Spider Man I need to go backwards in time for a few moments to Evan’s Birthday…which was also Spider Man themed!
Here he is…our 3 year old (well in July he turned 3) and I say this in the kindest motherly way…we love our 3 year old Evan much more than our 2 year old Evan.
Wow what a difference a year makes….seriously. He went from our “Who wants to deal with Evan? NOT IT – rock. paper. scissors?!” to back in the running for favorite kid.
We had originally ordered the shirt I was wearing for Evan…Luke ordered it and thought it would be a child’s large and just a tad big…well it turned out to be a youth large and it fit me, so I wore it to the party. The week before Evan’s party I found a spider girl costume at the party sale on clearance which Alyssa thought was awesome.
They had lots of fun attempting to do “spider moves” – they never quite got the whole spider web spraying hand move down, but they didn’t care.
Alyssa felt she needed to practice in the mirror…they both practiced their moves all day long in preparation for the party. 
Since my mom and grandma flew in for Evan’s birthday I decided to have my mouth surgery the day before Evan’s party. I think it worked out okay, I wasn’t that swollen yet so I didn’t look THAT strange to everyone at the party, but I did carry around my Spider Man ice pack…people said it looked like I was talking on my spidey phone.
And I still managed to make Evan a Spider Man cake.
Well so after Evan blew out his candles I wanted to get a family picture with us and his cake. As we were preparing for the picture he took a candle out of the cake. I thought he would lick off the icing like kids generally do, but he had never done it before. He had only watched others do it because I had always said, “no you can’t lick other kid’s cake candles.”
So this was his BIG MOMENT…and instead of licking the candle he took a big BITE out of it…thinking it was edible. Watch the reaction on his face that the camera caught…so funny. And yes, little Luke, watch and learn so you don’t do the same when your turn comes around! lol
Poor guy! 
The family picture thing didn’t work out so well so I just took one with just him. Which turned out MUCH cuter and MUCH happier!
And then we let him eat the icing off of the Spider Man instead of the candle. 
That night he changed into his new Batman Jammies and said “Next year I’m going to have a Batman Party!!”
Happy (belated) 3rd Birthday Evan!