Anyone for tea?

Our neighbors/friends the Lees invited our girls over for a Tea/Garden Party. They had lunch, colored, made and ate dessert all in their loveliest clothes. I think there were maybe 9 little girls as guests in all with 2 grandmas, Kristi the mom, her sister and a sleeping toddler to make it all a successful event. The girls loved it and are already excited about doing it again next year. The table decorations and every detail were just lovely. Emily called herself 'Madame' and it fit in very nicely with the Fancy Nancy book we had been enjoying that morning.

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More Party pics

Party with the Fosters at our house on Sunday evening. They brought some new clothes for the girls and Emily was wearing a beautiful purple ballerina outfit that we didn't want to get dirty from cake so she put on her 'paint shirt' to keep it clean while we ate.

At the friend party the next week we had a combined party with Nathan. I am proud of my Hello Kitty cake masterpiece. The girls helped me decide on colors and shapes as I went along. We had a pirate party and did face painting on the kids. Emily decided on a blue beard and earrings to match. Other kids had eye patches, anchors, cats, mustaches, etc. We played duck duck goose changed to rrr, rrr, matey and when you tagged the person you dumped water on their body.

Emily's 6th Birthday

Emily turned 6 on July 20th. We had a fun stretched out birthday week. On her actual birthday we started the day with her request for breakfast in bed . Pink (strawberry) milk, waffles with strawberry syrup with strawberries and blueberries. Aaron spilled the pink milk on her sheets and breakfast then moved to the kitchen.




Next item of business was opening a present, Ashley's came first. It was a barbie with 3 pet dogs- "Potty Training Puppies Barbie." The dogs get filled up with water from a bottle and then they 'pee' on the special newspaper which changes color when it's wet. What grossed me out later was seeing both Emily and Aaron walking around with the toy newspapers in the their mouth with pee and poop colors on it. I know it's fake, but it's the idea of putting dog poo in their mouths.

For her family party day Emily wanted to go to Kangaroo Zoo, and after lunch we headed out. Kangaroo Zoo is an indoor bounce house warehouse. There are 12 different jumping castle types and they have another section for black lights miniature golf. We ordered pizza for dinner and all 3 kids had a great time.

Aaron loved doing his thing, which included taking cups off of the cup rack.

We came back and opened presents from the grandmas. Thank you grandmas! The girls played with the new hot tub polly pockets for a while.

For her dessert we opted for a cupcakes and ice cream night because we would do cake for her later.

Aaron and Bryan having a great time feeding Aaron his otter-pop popsicle.

We finished the night with a pinata Emily made at a summer preschool. We hung it over the swingset. The whole process took 10+ minutes to break open her paper sack with 10 candies in it. We're lounging on the deck in the backyard eating nerds and calling it a good day.

We had a family party with the Fosters on Sunday the 25th and got some fun presents and a yummy cake. We had 5 Fosters plus extra guests Sarah and Tyler on their road trip and Tiffany's dog Scout (my girls adore her).

Emily's friend party was the next week on the 26th. We did a combined outdoor birthday party with our friend/ neighbor Nathan Moultrie who turned 5. We had 11 kids, 3 adults and some tears. We had 'Spiderman' and 'Hello Kitty' cakes and pirate themed games. We drew pirate body art, had a treasure hunt, got wet and had some fun.

I have to say I am a little surprised at my over protective feelings of Emily growing up and leaving for school soon. Right now we are considering part time home school as an option for next year.