The Birthday

Here's the table set and ready... Here's Micaela and Bitty waiting for the guests to arrive...
This is Micaela arranging her hat...

Here she is pleased at being sung to...

Bitty's new outfit and stroller received a lot of attention!

Micaela loved the Cinderella outfit, but Shea preferred the nightgown...

They both enjoyed playing with the dolls and their furniture when everything was over!

On Mother's Day we celebrated Micaela's fourth birthday party. It went really well. Micaela and I made all the decorations and set the table with fine china and stemware. Everything was beautiful. Porshe came home with us after church to help make sandwiches and get everything ready. We had lemonade, flower shaped PB&Js, heart shaped wild turkey salad sandwiches, and fruit salad followed by herbal tea, cookies and chocolate dipped strawberries (Micaela dipped the strawberries), and then cake and ice cream. It was a very elegant affair with three rowdy preschool girls and one very hungry nursing boy! The girls adorned their straw hats with flowers, sang I'm a Little Tea Pot, played Poor Kitty, and generally ran wild after the presents were opened. Micaela thouroughly enjoyed herself and her best friend Shea. She was exhausted by the end and took a three hour nap afterwards. I took a pretty good nap too!

Thank you all for the beautiful gifts! Micaela has loved all of them. Most of the late ones arrived today, and she's played with them all evening. Bitty has had many changes of clothes and eaten way too much baby food this evening. Oh, and just in case you wondered what we did today...

Micaela wanted to paint her new doll house furniture.

I was cleaning up the kitchen and living areas all day, so I thought I'd 'clean' the play room tonight after the kids went to bed.