Daylon celebrated his second birthday this last long Memorial Day weekend! We eagerly welcomed friends and family to our home to help nerd out and party it up Star Wars style. Jeanne made fantastic treats; Rice Krispie treat Death Star balls that turned teeth and lips black (glorious!), Yoda Soda, cupcakes topped with character decals, Hot Dog TIE Fighter Ties, Hot Dog Lightsabers. We had the Episode V soundtrack playing the background, the house was decorated some, and we had gift goody bags for all the kiddos. It was a rad day of food and fellowship celebrating Daylon.Since the birthday party was Star Wars themed and having found inspiration by a fellow geeky dad I spent some time earlier last week making a Star Wars growth chart for Daylon. I used GIMP an open-source photo-editing tool. After creating character layers I exported the flattened image as a PDF file (via the print function) and from a downtown Kinko's printed the PDF onto some heavier duty paper. To the left of this post is an image (not in full scale) of the final result. If anyone wants it I can forward on the final full scale image and/or the .xcf GIMP file. Let me know.
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| Daylon loves the little park down the drive from us. Ah, my boy! |
