Fairy Tea Party

While enjoying Ethiopian food last week with friends, I mentioned that Mia had finally seen Peter Pan and was in LOVE with Tinkle Bell :) Courtney's daughter, Izzy and Erica's daughter, Devin are totally into fairies and princesses and the mamas were thrilled that they had another little girl who was just getting her feet wet in the fairy world. Well a Fairy Tea Party HAD to be planned! So on Friday, Mia dressed in her fairy finest, carrying blueberry scones, went to her first Fairy Tea Party.

Wow! What a spread!!! Courtney went all out!!! The mamarazzi was in full force for this too cute event. I found that Mia enjoys dipping her scone in her peppermint tea. All the little girls...and Devin's bro Joey, all dressed up at a tea party was beyond precious! Then Courtney blew up an air mattress, covered it in pillows for their Fairy Pad..so they could watch the Tinkerbell movie in style. the movie was well done and the girls were delighted to hang on their fairy pad while the mamas chatted and ate crumb cake (thanks Erica!)

Ohhhh then it was discovered that Mia's birthday was a mere 4 days away! Well! The girls ran around decorating Izzy's room and pulled out a Melissa and Doug birthday cake in Mia's honor. I think the older girls were more into it than Mia, because all attention went to Courtney and her laundry basket filled with snowballs...um, rolled up socks. Snowball FIIIIIGHT!!!! We ended up staying so late that the dads came home, but brought pizza with them. This was a Fairy Tea Party that Mia will never forget!

and true to form, I just can't pick my best shot...which one do you like best?

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Texas Style Winter Games

Smack in the middle of both Winter and Texas, we got together for some Texas style winter games! Mama Courtney and her lovely Izzy & Emmy hosted the fun at a neighborhood park...they were prepared with oodles of snowballs (rolled up socks), sleds (cardboard and rope) and ice skates (paper plates taped onto the bottom of the kids shoes with tape)! I still can't get over how the kids really LOVED throwing snowballs!

I'm loving this shot so much, I'm dubbing it my Best Shot

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Angel Butterfly Biker

After hangin in the grass a little, Mia was back on her trike, this little one couldn't decide if she wanted to wear her butterfly or angel wings...she went with both.

Much like my daughter, I'm having a hard time picking my Best Shot....I love them all, but will go with the one below because I love everything about it. You'd never know how much a struggle it is for her to turn those darn pedals...she looks so confident.

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All by myself

For a while now, Mia's been all about doing EVERYTHING 'all by myself'. It's normally fine...not, however, while going up or down steep & tall steps. Daryl got his family out of the house yesterday by taking us to Mt Bonnell. It was an easy climb, and a great view. Relaxing? Um, not so much...Mia wanted to do it all 'all by myself'. I'm used to it, and usually give Mia a lot of her own space, but Daddy was a little more nervous. Maybe it was that I was super nauseous, and just wanted a gingersnap to care too much of the goings on between daddy and daughter. Going back down the steps, Mia was almost in tears because daddy wouldn't let her 'do it all by myself'. Daddy, stood with his arms crossed at an impasse. I asked her gently 'do you want to hold daddy's hand or mama's hand?'....pause.....she opted for mama's. All she wanted was a chance to choose.....'all by myself'.

the impasse

the reason

After a late lunch at Kerbey Lane, we walked around next door at Drumz. I'm currently taking djembe classes there. The area is pushed back from the world and lush as lush can be. Mia spied at Buddha and was very interested in him.....I asked what it was and as she patted it's head, she said, 'my dada'.

Ok. So, I'm toooo exhausted/nauseaous to pick a Best Shot....why don't you pick yours for me and add it in the comments? Thanks :)

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