Afternoon Tea

When the girls were about four months old, I made Emily a little tea cup for future tea parties. (Click here for a flashback). About a year later, I made one for Addie. Now that the girls are old enough, I brought the cups out so we could have a little tea party.

 

Addie's cup has a little monkey in it

Emily's cup has a little kitty in it

This is the cup that inspired me to put little creatures inside Emily and Addison's cups. It was given to me when I was a little girl, and there's a little bird inside!

 This reminds me, I'll need to visit Crackpots again soon so I can make a tea cup for Elizabeth. I wonder who will be hiding in her cup?

You're Invited to a Princess Tea Party

Back in August, my friend Chrystina and her daughter, Maisie, hosted a beautifully wonderful Princess Tea Party. The invitation went out to the mom's group I joined at the hospital when Emily and Addison were first born. This has been such a great group to be apart of because all of our kids were born within a few months of each other, so they have all gone through the stages of development together, and us moms have been able to lean on each other for advice, support, and encouragement through it all.

For some reason, the majority of kids in our group are girls, so this princess tea party was just perfect and it brought lots of giggles from both moms and little gals. Our mom's group has been meeting on a weekly basis since these little girls were newborn babies, and it has been pretty amazing to watch them all grow, learn, and play together for two and a half years.

Within the last six months or so, there has been a baby boom in the group, so Elizabeth will have plenty of "second round" kiddos to play with in the group. I feel so blessed to have found this group of women to go through motherhood with!

Emily and Addie each picked a dress from the dress up box to wear to tea

While enjoying delicious pink lemonade "tea," the girls got to decorate crowns

Maisie, Ellie, Addie, Emily, Lyndi, Nora, and Lilly

Crowns finished, Lyndi and Emily chow down

Addie finds a stroller to push around

The babies get together for a picture (Katelyn, Elizabeth, Teagan, and Miles) Lilly's little brother, Casey, just did not want to have his picture taken. Being the oldest of this "second round" of kiddos, he kept rolling away.

The sixth little one is Evie here. She's a cutie patootie with some awesome hair.

Macie (between Addie and Emily) was feeling a bit shy for the big group picture, but had warmed up a bit for this one

Happy Elizabeth at the end of her very first tea party!

The girls got to bring home favor bags that had all sorts of fun princess accessories in them. We came home, took off our princess shoes, and played with our new toys. What a fun day!

Vivian, the Star of the Show

Little Vivian, what a sweet precious baby girl. Luckily, we had lots of time to hold and admire the newest member of the Sebring family while Rose and Wendy were in town.

Wendy was able to get the baby fix she'd been jonesing for.

Rose was very sweet to this tiny baby.

Don't you just love this face?

Three Sweet Ladies

Claire is a wonderful big sister. She really truly loves Vivian and it shows in everything she does.

 While all the Vivian holding was going on, Greg did a great job of entertaining all the little ladies with a tea party.

Emily is hoping that her daddy will be able to host tea parties, too