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Party in the Sticks!
Sticks Sticks Sticks… I know, it seems like I just got back from the sticks yesterday and here we are back again. We’re here for a good reason though. My brother and his wife are celebrating their ten year anniversary this Saturday (tomorrow! eeek!) with a big huge wedding-esque party (because they never really had a wedding the first time—they eloped) and of course I have been enlisted to help out. How could I not? My middle name is party prep.
Which is a good thing since my niece, Rapunzel, is turning nine on Monday and my sister-in-law hosted a sleep-over birthday party for her tonight. I haven’t really done much to help besides eat more than my share of pizza and cupcakes but it has been fun to be in the middle of it all. Baby Bug is having the time of her life of course. She thinks she’s one of the girls and has been running and screaming though the house just like them. Next thing I know, she’ll be playing truth or dare and putting on sparkly eye shadow. Yikes! What a thought.
Sigh… but not yet.
Just yesterday Baby Bug had her first sprinkler experience. It was so fun. “Wha-whoo! Wha-whoo!” she says, trying to get closer and closer to it but not understanding why she’s getting wetter and wetter. I love seeing the world through her eyes. I made a little movie (2.3 megs quicktime) with my Dad’s camera so you can pretend to be one again too. This is for you Auntie Knittery. It also has a big clip of SuperChic in it and I can’t take credit for knowing what a clavicle is. I learned it the same way SuperChic will learn… from Auntie Tickle tickling it.
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How Babies Have Tea Parties
1. Watch eagerly as Mama gets mystery box out of high, out-of-reach cupboard.
2. Exclaim with glee as Mama sets up real glass cups and saucers at kid’s table.
3. Grab two cups and run off with them down the hall.
4. Return to table to see where strange sipping sound is coming from.
5. Copy Mama and make sipping and “aaaah” sounds into cups.
6. Make sipping sound into sugar bowl and tea pot and tea pot lid.
7. Smile at Mama because you are so smart with the sipping sounds
8. Celebrate your brilliant sipping by banging plates together. Enjoy clinking sound and funny faces Mama makes.
8. Eat goldfish crackers ravenously.
9. When done with crackers, clear table by sweeping dishes onto the floor with arm.
10. Grind goldfish crackers into carpet and enjoy crunching sensation.
11. Run into kitchen, find cat’s dishes. Have a tea party with them too.
12. When Mama takes away cat’s dishes, go find amazing tea party box and sit in it.
13. Bust box sides with strong legs.
13. Cry and throw a fit when Mama takes tea party dishes and busted box away.
