Tea Party Time Again!

The time came again for my friend Kelly's summer tea party. Its been a great time to reconnect with friends Sarah and Kelly from college. And well, Belle is always up for a party and to meet new friends.

Kelly always plans this so cute down to the littlest detail. And it just keeps getting bigger. There were about 20 girls there. The smallest being about 18 mos maybe up to 8-10ish.









The girls played games and did crafts. Kelly's sister-in-law Erica even did a hilarious skit that later tied into a game they played.









We wrapped up the night with a dress up contest and a movie before bedtime. This was Belle's first time to sleepover and it went great. I stayed with her and I'm still recovering from sleeping on the floor. We stayed up til 1am and I'm pretty sure Belle could've kept going til dawn.





I'm glad Kelly does this every year. It's fun to get together with friends I don't get to see and it's a blast for Belle as well.



And to make this a really long post. Here are a couple photos from the last two parties. Here are the posts for the first and second parties.

Characters

I thought it would be fun to update every now and then on the kids personalities and their likes and dislikes.

Belle - 4 years
• You are a CHARACTER. You will never go unnoticed if you can help it.
• You're extremely outgoing and have no problem going up to kids and saying "Hi, my name is Belle, whats your name?".
• You constantly embarrass your parents by telling every single person at Walmart "hi". Once I asked you why you feel the need to say hi to everyone, your response "because they look my in my eye".
• You wake up every morning asking for candy. For you candy can mean anything from gum to chocolate to a popsicle. You are a junk food junkie like your mother.
• You love school although you DO NOT want to work on any school stuff with mom at home.
• You love horses. You have a ton of toy horses.
• Your favorite shows are Ruff Ruffman and Caliou.
• Your favorite movie is The My Little Pony movie.
• This summer you love going swimming and taking "nature walks" with daddy (walks along the high school cross country trail).

Ethan - almost 2 years
• Like your sister you are pretty outgoing. Although it's yet to be seen if you are just copying your sister.
• You love your sissy and want to do EVERYTHING your sissy does.
• You are a daredevil. You've scared us all to death, jumping from crazy heights or diving into the pool head first. There is no physical obstacle that you'll let stand in your way.
• You are becoming a picky eater, but I'm beginning to think it's only when you want to be. You've been known to out of the blue try new things and eat them no problem.
• You are starting to put words together pretty well. My favorite is "thank you mama" or "mama cere-all?" (when you are asking to share my breakfast)
• You are starting to like trains and cars a lot more. You'll lay in bed and drive a car around while you go to sleep.
• Your favorite shows are Sid the Science Kid and the movie Cars.

Daredevil

I put the little stinker down for his nap today, handed him a car and went on my way. I was downstairs cutting onions when I heard Ethan start to cry. I figured he just didn't want to sleep. If he was still crying by the time I got done I'd go up there. Well by the time I was done, he was hysterical. Imagine my surprise when I walked in and saw this. He had gotten up, but couldn't get down.


And being the wonderful mother that I am, I quickly saved my precious angel from that dangerous situation. Nope, grabbed my phone, turned on the light and snapped a picture. I figure he's lucky I didn't run downstairs for the Nikon. =)

I think he must of been after the other car I sat on top of the dresser (he has it in his hand in the picture). I've seen him stretch from his bed to the dresser before to get his cup, but never get on top. That would've been interesting to see.

Never a dull day with this kid. I see stitches or something getting broken in his future.

A week with Mimi and Poppy

We got quite the break in July. First Mamaw and Papaw took the kids for a almost a week and then it was Mimi and Poppy's turn.

They did all kinds of things. They played with Brody and Cooper everyday I think. Brody and Ethan took a while to warm up to each other. I guess there were a lot of fighting and screaming over toys. Ethan really liked Cooper though and kept saying "Hi Ba-bay". They went to Youngs Dairy and got ice cream, they went to the Creation Museum and on the last day Belle got to go ride horses. An expensive hobby I'm not sure I want Belle getting into. =)