Lysander's almost Four

Lysander's fourth birthday is coming up in the beginning of October and it's time to start planning, but before I dive into why his birthday party is going to give me an aneurism, I have to say, it become incredibly apparent to me that he is another year older all in one morning. Some of these things he's been doing for quite awhile but combined with other things it just brought it all to the forefront of my mind.

The other day he woke up before me, but he didn't come get me out of bed like he used to. He turned on his tv and started playing with toys in his room. Then we went downstairs to breakfast and he went to the bathroom on his own, whereas before he'd either go straight to the table or he'd have to be talked in to going potty by me. Then after he went to the bathroom he got the stool and washed his hands all on his own and then went to look for a hand towel himself to dry his hands off. Then he sat down at the table and I gave him breakfast. When he was done he got up and went to the kitchen sink where he pulled a chair over and washed off his hands and his arms and his mouth(he had waffles with syrup) then dried off and went to the living room and got the remote and turned on the tv and then went to go find toys to play with. I swear to you, had he been able to make his own waffles and pour his own milk, I would have been completely obsolete.

I have to admit that I enjoy him being able to do things for himself and it's great to not have to wait on him hand and foot, but it makes me a little sad too that he's getting so big so fast. :( :)

Since he's such a big boy and so independent I thought maybe he'd like to tell me what he wanted the theme for his birthday party to be. He said Avenger's. When he says Avenger's, he means, Avenger's: Earth's Mightiest Heroes that's on DisneyXD. So I know I'm going to need to order this stuff soon so I can get invites out, and I started looking the beginning of August. All I could find was Superhero Squad. That is an entirely different show from AEMH. One that he likes, and has a million of the little toys, but not what he said he wanted for his party. So I show him a picture of the SHS party theme and asked "Is this okay for your party?" His response, "No, I Avenger's" (for some reason he won't say want, and honestly, I don't particularly care because I think a child saying "I want" constantly is obnoxious!)

For two weeks I have been looking everywhere I can think of for Avenger's party supplies. I even went so far as to suggest Justice League(the previously more popular DC version of Avenger's, but thanks to Disney, most people now know all about Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, like everyone already knows who Batman, Superman and Wonderwoman are) to him, which he said was fine with him, and started trying to search for that, but to no avail.

I just have to know, WHY IN THE HELL is there a super popular Avenger's cartoon made for kids and NO FREAKING PARTY SUPPLIES PUT OUT FOR IT??? Disney or distributors or whoever has totally dropped the ball here and I am not happy. There are party supplies for some weird cartoon called Barkugon on every website I've been on and I've NEVER heard of that cartoon. It's like they are out to get me. My husband, the all brilliant comic book person, suggests that I get a mixture of the thor, captain america, iron man, and hulk party supplies. LIKE LYSANDER DOESN'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. I mean, Wasp, Hawk guy and Ant man will all be missing from that scenario. Plus from the mama point of view it looks like a jumbled mess and not a cohesive decorating plan.

In closing, I'd like to thank Disney for getting my kid hooked on an ultra cool cartoon that he LOVES and making it impossible for me to have an Avenger's: Earth's Mightiest Heroes birthday party for him. I'd love to say I'm going to boycott Disney or be mad at them forever, but let's face it. Disney is behind most things that my kids hold most dear in the world, so what I'm really going to do is shut my mouth and keep giving them thousands of dollars a year for their cloths and toys and silverware and dvds... but they will be missing out on the $100 I would have spent on birthday party supplies. I know if someone from Disney read this, they'd be really distraught. Really really distraught.