Birthday bowling

Take five kids under the age of five.
Throw them into bowling shoes.
Give them a bowling ball.
You've got Emmett's third birthday party. Also known as Chaos.

 The birthday boy (in his Batman costume, circa 1978) rolls the first ball

 Ramps and guardrails for the gutters ensure the little people hit at least one pin. 

 Shoes. As small as size 5.

But the highlight of the day was discovering Lightning McQueen on his DQ ice cream cake. He was so excited he couldn't blow out all his candles in one breath.

The shovel is mightier than the fork

At his third birthday party this weekend, Emmett's friend Wyatt throws down a chocolate cake-eating performance that scores high marks for both technical merit and artistic impression.

The gauntlet having been thrown down, Emmett focuses his training regimen on his own third birthday... or when cake-eating gains full medal status at the Olympics. Whichever comes first.

365 days later

Emmett celebrates the end of his first full circuit around the sun with a splashy introduction to refined sugar. He also uses the accompanying media attention to showcase his revolutionary new guilt-free technique for eating birthday cupcakes: Grip cake firmly, extract chocolate juice, discard husk. Zero sugar, zero calories, all taste.