Tea Party and Sprinkles Galore

Finley and Grandma wanted to have a tea party. Grandma had some frozen cookies to bake, and Finley even made a menu with hot chocolate, cookies, and spaghetti. I wanted to tell her that spaghetti wasn’t traditional tea party fare, but it’s her party!

 

 

After our day at The Arboretum we went home to make cookies before our guests arrived. Gentry and Sullivanne came dressed to party in fancy dresses and hats! Their mommy and daddy joined in the fun.

We decided to use real plates, cups, tea pot, and crystal pitcher. Why not?! The kids actually wanted hot chocolate instead of tea, and who can blame them when marshmallows are involved. We had chocolate covered berries and goldfish snacks too.

 

In the meantime the kids also picked tiaras, jewels, and wings from the dress-up bins.

After the first round of yummy tea, it was time to decorate the mini cupcakes with sprinkles. Lots of sprinkles! What is it about children and sprinkles? They had a blast.

 

After the sugar rush we saw lots of running around the house and being silly with the cat. All the best tea parties must end this way. I love these kinds of days with special friends! Oh, and we did end up having spaghetti for dinner after the tea party!

A Sunny Day at the Arboretum and Rory Meyers Children’s Garden

Well, a few days ago it was sunny and warm. Yesterday we got a huge ice storm and temperatures dipped into the single digits. What a difference a few days make.

Grandma is in town, and we went to The Dallas Arboretum to see the display of Christmas angels at the DeGolyer House.

 

The display is supposed to be 500 angels, but I know there were many, many more. It was beautiful. The kids loved seeing them too and pointing out the ones they liked. We also followed the scavenger hunt page they gave us at the front door to find “angels blowing horns” in one room, an angel made from a pine cone in another, glass ones, and on and on. They especially loved the secret door in the library. I always loved that too!

 

 

Then we walked around the Arboretum where they were dismantling the pumpkin houses; all you could see were bare wire-walled houses. It was strange and fun to see it come down.

We took the big golf cart “trolley” over to the Rory Meyers Children’s Garden side.

 

There was also a lot of planting going on. We saw pansies and tulip bulbs being planted.

When we got to Rory Meyers we went straight to The Incredible Edible Garden to see the giant vegetables and interactive computers that everyone made at Mecca. First Finley and Grey had to get in the peas in a pod and slide down the celery slide, of course!

 

 

 

 

 

Then we went to one of our favorite little sections, First Adventure, to play in the sand, play with flower puzzles in big pots, ride on ladybug scooters, and play on the flower computers. We also loved seeing the mushroom-topped water spouts that Chad and Mecca worked on as a solution for the kiddos who play with them.

 

Fun, fun day in the sun with Grandma!