Tea Party

A couple months ago, Auntie Alicia took Kristin to Party City to get some odds and ends for the baby shower we had for Tandy. While they were there, Alicia got Kristin a Cinderella tea set. Kristin was in heaven. She plays with the set all the time, but has been extra serious about tea parties the last couple weeks. Today when we got home from Grandma's house the first thing Kristin did was spread out a blanket and get things ready for a "fancy tea."You can see that she dressed her bear up special for the occasion:Then she explained to me that she had this magic flower (which was a plastic rose that came with the set). With the flower, she could make any flavor tea we wanted. She demonstrated this by holding the plastic flower over the teapot and snorting on it. Here's Simon. He insisted on being one of the guests. His favorite thing to play with was the sugar bowl. I was kind of impressed because he seemed to understand that he needed to sit on the blanket like we were at a picnic. If you moved him, he'd go right back to sitting on the edge of the blanket like he is in the photo.Here, Kristin pours her special magically flavored tea. "Oooooooh!"Then she said she needed to take my picture with the tea cup. This is actually the second photo we took. In the first one, I didn’t have my pinkie up. “That’s not how you drink tea, Mom.” I have so much to learn.
Kristin is such a character. Takes after her mom.