The birthday Tea Party

So Sarah wanted to have a tea party with her friends for her birthday.  I have never been to a tea party, nor have I been part of the planning of a tea party, so planning and running the tea party was up to my wonderful loving wife.  (as most of the girls birthday parties are.)  The tea party was planned to start at 2 pm so we did some family gift giving in the morning before the tea party guests started arriving.

 Here is one of her favorite gifts.  Shoes to dress up in.  She wears them all the time now and feels like she is an important princess.  Not that we were lacking in the shoe department(check out this story), but we did not have lots of these dress up shoes.

This gift was from her sister Moriah and receive the most animated reaction for any gift she received.  Apparently she really liked the hair brush!  It may have something to do with the Disney princess on it.

Leah could not stand to be left out, so here is her picture.

 The table is set and waiting for the guests to arrive.

 All the cups and princess trinkets are in place.

 The goodies were waiting to be eaten.(they were all very good.  I had to do some quality control.)

Just waiting for all the 4-5 year old little girls to get here and start the tea party.  

Now as far as how the tea party went, I am assuming it went well.  I never heard any loud screams and crying and we were not visited by an ambulance.  I do not really know because about the time they started showing up, I made my way to the shop to work on some projects.   I am out numbered enough in this house on a daily basis and knew that a house with nine 4-5 year old girls, a 2 year old girl, several 7-10 year old girls, and a few moms, was no place for me to be!  I have since seen the pictures and it seems that fun was had by all.  And I got some woodworking in too!

Another birthday!

Sarah winning the contest for the messiest ice cream cone eater!

We seem to always be having birthday parties around here.  This time it is for #3 daughter, Sarah!  She is 4 years old today (thats 1461 days if you are counting).  Or if you ask her, "how old are you?"  Her answer will be, "Dis many!" while holding up 3 or 4 fingers depending on what she felt like doing at the time.  I seem to say this with all the girls birthdays, but it does not seem possible that she can be 4 years old.  In the last year she has grown up a lot.  She talks non-stop and loves to sing, dance, and run.  Just like her olders sisters at this age, she is in love with Disney princesses, so for her party we will be having a whole bunch of other little girls over for a fancy tea party with all of them wearing their favorite princess dress.  It should be very fun for all the people in the house under 4 feet tall.  For the rest of us, I am sure it will be entertaining and tiring. 

Sarah still likes to sniff the one corner of her blankie and loves to play with her big sisters or go places with mom and dad.  She is a constant source of funny quotes and actions as well. 

So this post is to tell our 3rd daughter, Sarah Elyzabeth Jayne, that we love her very much and hope she has a happy 4th birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH!