Tea Time

Last weekend, Abby decided that she really wanted to have a tea party (this may be due to our repeated readings of "The Best Tea Party Ever"). We spent the morning gathering up ingredients, and then she invited Julia and Maisie over to the house. The girls made popovers, cookie cutter tea sandwiches, and fruit caterpillars on skewers. I think the best part for Abby was drinking juice out of her tea set.




After tea was done, the girls ran downstairs to burn off all the sugar they consumed:

Body Art

Abby decided it was the perfect time to pull out her body crayons yesterday. She wanted me to draw bracelets, rings, a heart, and knee people on her hands and legs, and then insisted that she put the same on me. The first part of that sounded better than the second. Here's how it turned out....

Little Liberace

This is Benji's new favorite activity.

The Teacher

We are trying to get Benji accustomed to eating some finger foods, but he has not really taken to it at all (unless you call gagging an act of enjoyment). Trying to help her little brother, Abby spent much of the dinner hour "modeling" how to eat sweet potato chunks for Benji. He did not make any progress on the eating front, but he sure thought that Abby was funny.

Bathtime

Although Benji used to love baths, they have now turned into a major trauma for him. Notice the red eyes and tear streaks running down his face.

Time to Give Thanks

With less than two weeks until Thanksgiving, we decided it was finally time to break out the decorations. Abby dove into this task with relish. Her favorite are these throw pillows, but she was also quite taken with discovering her own old artwork.

The cupcakes

In a fit of insanity, I decided that my last official act as Abby's soccer coach should be to make "soccer ball" cupcakes for the kids' last game. As is typical, this was a lot more work than I thought it would be and consumed much of last night. Here is how they came out:



Ok, not a work of art, but kids love cupcakes. Unfortunately, I might have wanted to spend some of the time checking the weather report. Here is what it looked like this morning:



That's pouring rain, in case you can't tell. Needless to say, the game was canceled. Anyone want a cupcake?