Sisters Tea House

My friend, Angie invited us to have tea with Snow White, Cinderella, and Aurora.  Lilly was pretty excited about this idea.  She talked all about the princesses on the way to tea.  Non stop chatter.  This is really a great idea!  And so many moms, aunts, and grandmothers were having special dates with their certain little girl.

   The princesses walked around during our lunch serving tea and hot chocolate.  In fine china, of course!  Looks like Cousin Jenny isn't the only person who trusts four year olds!  This is Lilly's face when she first saw Cinderella was in our room.

 And Cinderella patiently posed for a picture with Lilly.  Lilly said not one word to her.  

 And this is pretty much how she ate her entire lunch.  In awe of the princesses.

 These girls worked hard today!  They sat like this for all these girls to take pictures!  And my child was not easy.  This is the best photo we could get.

 Sisters Tea House is an old house with rooms upstairs set up for browsing and shopping.  This room was any little girls haven!  There were old hats, boas, gloves, dresses, purses - and the girls were encouraged to play with it all!  All the girls were so quiet for story time.

And then they played a game with the princesses.  Note the little girl next to Lilly - she is clearly not finished playing dress up!

Breakfast with Santa

A friend of ours invited us to join her and her granddaughter for breakfast with Santa.  This is where I realized just how much she has heard about Santa.  I also realized most of my friends have grandchildren.  

 Our seats just happened to be right by Santa's great entrance.  And look at that face!

 She waited very patiently to meet Santa.  The whole time we waited in line, all I heard about was how she was going to talk to him and ask him for a Barbie.  She was very excited about this opportunity.

 She did not sit in his lap.  She did not talk to him.  About Anything.  We barely got this picture.  The Santa activity included a photo.  Lilly took that photo to school every day for at least two weeks to show her friends, her teachers, her friends' parents.  I can not imagine the stories she told about her breakfast.

 They had lots of great activities for the kids to do also!  Here is the cookie decorating station.  You can't tell, but Lilly did not get enough sprinkles on her cookie.  She actually poured some sprinkles in her goodie bag.  

Good Tidings of Christmas

Lilly was quite helpful this year in holiday preparations!  She did an advent calendar and waited patiently to do only one at a time.  She heard about Elf on the Shelf.  Naturally, she wondered why she didn't have her own personal elf.  I wonder how all those other moms have the time and energy to add an elf to their holidays.  She also knew about Santa this year.  And all she wanted from the big guy was a Barbie.

She and I were putting the tree up.  I turned my back for one minute...

 She went and got her flashlight and "fixed" the tree.  I'm still not sure what was "broken."

 And we did a little holiday baking!  Or maybe just dipping.

The goods.

Turkey Run 2012

So we ran down to Little Rock for Thanksgiving this year.  Ernie and Lilly gave me their cold which turned into bronchitis so I'm really not sure what all took place over the holidays.  I do however have evidence of Lilly and Cousin Jenny having some good times!

 They rode their bikes outside.

They had a tea party!  Only Cousin Jenny would give a four year old tea in fine china.

Lilly had bubble baths in the middle of the afternoon in Aunt Patty's fancy tub.

And they even managed to squeeze in "Spa Day!"

And of course, there was a birthday celebration!  Cousin Jenny picked out a wonderful Cinderella themed cake that was simply delicious!