festiveLOVE: the garden tea party weekend

Anita's beautiful flowers were the perfect embellishment for Serejane's rainbow-sprinkle cupcakes with strawberry-chocolate frosting.

The impatient birthday girl grumpily waiting for the party to get started.

The tea table.

There was time for a little ring-around-the-rosy while we waited for all the guests to arrive.

Once everyone arrived, we practiced asking for, "Two lumps please!" and drinking tea the proper way, with pinky lifted in the air *just like so* but since Serejane couldn't master lifting the pinky on the hand she was drinking with she opted for lifting the other pinky...

After tea, we played STOMP (you attach balloons to everyone's ankles and pop each others' balloons) and musical chairs.

After games it was time to learn some horticlture: planting geraniums..

Everyone put on their gardening gloves, then re-potted their seedling, got a top-up on soil from the 'dirt lady' (Serejane's Gramma) and watered their plants with their new froggy or elephant watering cans.

It was almost too much to watch them waiting in line for the dirt lady. SO sweet... ~sigh~ I was in heaven!


With everyone's plants and teacups safely stashed in their loot bags, it was time for cake and presents.

The reaction when she opened the Leapster was brilliant lol

After opening presents the only way to convince Serejane to not play with her new toys was to ship the kids to the park next door until parents came.

We weren't in the door 3 minutes before Serejane was on the couch playing Dora on the Leapster. She only took a few short breaks to do sidewalk chalk drawings and eat some rice for supper...

Thank you to everyone who came! 'Twas all-in-all a wonderful Saturday, followed on Sunday with a trip to the Telus World of Science to FINALLY check out the Lego exhibit, which ranged from tacky to brilliant to just plain lame. Visit the online album for comments...