A Tea Party!

I found my camera just in time to get a few photos of our super fun afternoon "tea time." My sister in law found an advertisement in the paper for a Mother's Day tea time and it was so much fun. A darling lady from Botswana? (can't remember where for sure) whose parents were British started this tea shop. It has all kinds of tea sets, tea's, lemon curds, and etc. The "Tea Room" is overloaded with antique dolls, more specialty tea sets and numerous romantic girly things. Super fun experience we had with Christina and Ann. Thanks

Ellie's 1st china tea set. She is laying down the rules with the siblings.





I found my camera just in time to get a few photo's of our super fun afternoon tea time. My sister in law found an advertisement in the paper for a Mother's Day tea time and it was so much fun. A darling lady from Nigeria? can't remember whose parents were British started this tea shop. It has all kinds of tea sets, tea's, lemon curds, and etc. The "Tea Room" is overloaded with antique dolls, more specialty tea sets and numerous romantic girly things. Super fun experience we had with Christina and Ann. Thanks

Stages

Ellie has always been interested in anatomy and we have had multiple lessons on where babies incubate. (She has asked more questions about birds and bees, which I have skirted, feeling she was a little young to grasp the concept.)
I came home from doing a few errands Sat. morning and Ellie was in such a giggly mood. Nate, doing scriptures with the kids, was answering Ellie's questions about "fruit of the loins" and she was so giddy I knew what conversation was being had. Nate was explaining about cattle (the way he learned what was what) and asked if she noticed when bulls jumped up on the cows. Ellie started laughing her head off and said, "So daddy jumps on mommies shoulders?" She was laughing so hard I wish I had had the where-with-all to grab the video camera. I was thinking "I'm not ready to explain this one." Ellie is way to inquisitive and our bedrooms are way too close together. Nate dodged the rest of the conversation by telling her "Mommy will take you on a date and have a good girl chat with you." Yikes...a seven year old...really? I'm not sure I can do it with a straight face!

A few minutes ago Ellie asked a little friend as they were playing with two cow figurines, "Do you know how to tell the difference between a boy cow and a girl cow?" "A boy cow has nut sacks(Nathan's terminology)." That is about as technical as we get around here. Anatomy lessons are different but I am not a mom who likes to hear the word penis, scrotum and etc mixed into the daily chatter. I know plenty of moms that don't mind which is fine with me. You see the reluctance.:)