Move over Batman! Make room for Boy Wonder!

As you may have realised, O is a big Batman nut. Not the new one . .. no . . . he's a hardcore 60's Batman fan. He has owned a brown teddy since he was born. Its name *was* Dudley but in the last 12 months has changed to Parb. Yes. I know.

DH and I were talking about how cute it would be if Parb had a Robin costume as O loves wearing his $2 Batman mask from Kmart (the one in the cake photos from his birthday).

So this morning, while E was asleep, O "helped" me make this.



Isn't he cute??

Once Robin-Parb was finished O decided that Puppy (his other but definitely 2nd favourite bedtime toy) needed a batman costume. Well I didn't have enough black felt to do an elaborate batman costume but O and I came up with this.



Only a cape and a mask but O was happy with that. We decided it would be too hard to make the pointy batman ears.



Here they are together. I know that, strictly speaking, Batman is taller - but Puppy's had a bit of neck-hugging action over the last four or so years so he's looking a leeetle bit limp.



And finally, an action shot of the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder fighting crime on our deck.

It was a lovely morning of crafty/sewing goodness. O actually used my sewing machine for the first time and I think he was a bit awed by the power! Which is good because it means he probably won't want to fiddle with it when I'm not there. Young Lady however, I'm going to have to watch . . .

October Reno

O's table and chairs (from IKEA) were getting a bit the worse for wear so I decided to do a bit of a revamp.


They are this design from IKEA. Here's what they looked like before this afternoon . . .









And here they are now with beautiful new covering!






Not bad for $4 worth of book covering. O chose Batman for the chairs and Spiderman for the table top. It was a lovely crafty bonding session for mother and son - we had a great time taking chairs and table apart, covering the chipboard and then reassembling the bits.

I thoroughly recommend the table and chairs and also the revamp. As you can see though, the wood now looks like it needs a major paint job. Perhaps we'll do that too . . . . one day!

Batman

I've been watching quite a bit of the 1960's Batman movie - O's favourite at the moment :)

Here are some of my favourite lines.

Batman: Somes days you just can't get rid of a bomb!

Batman: What has yellow skin and can write?
Robin: A Banana ballpoint pen!
Batman: Yes.

Robin: Holy Heart-failure!

I will add more as I think of them. Ah - so kitsch, so funny and so hilarious!

This is a link to the bomb scene. At the moment my favourite scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4v1hAnfy1I

I haven't worked out how to put youtube on my blog yet. Will change it when I have it sorted.

Enjoy!

Batman Boy!

I'm just putting up a few photos from my Big Boy's Batman party on the weekend. Husband and I worked out how to do a Batman Cake - he has been asking for one since his third birthday last year!

Here's a pic of the boys making the cake.

And the finished cake - it was supposed to be a Bat-cave with the Bat-mobile driving out of the mouth of the cave. I think we did pretty well!

It's a batman mask from kmart on a chocolate-iced Dolly Varden cake and with patty cakes as the number four.

He loved it and had a great time at this party.

It was a great success and O had a ball which was the main thing!