Would you care for a spot of tea?

 There is a tea cottage next to Lillian's preschool. Since it opened in October, Lillian has been asking to go. When I pick her up from school and we drive by it she will say, "The open sign is on mommy. That means we can go in." I had been saving it (OK, bribing) for a special occassion. Lillian has done real well at keeping her playroom and room cleaned up so since it is spring break, I thought we would go there this afternoon.

Instead of coming right out to tell her, I mimed the activity for her (thanks daddy and Comedy Worx for that). She guessed it and asked to wear a fancy dress. I said sure but she would need a sweater over it and she couldn't wear the matching shoes outside. She decided to wear a regular dress and her velvet shoes. I was deemed "not fancy" in my jeans and shirt until I pulled my hair up!

We got there and it was crowded. Lillian was the youngest person there by at least 60 years! The place was full as there was a person in the main room giving a history lesson of the local area and street. The house was built in 1910 and so far the family has managed to hang onto it despite pleas for developers. And our server turned out to be the neighbor of Lillian's preschool teacher!

 

We were seated in another room and presented with a menu of teas. We selected a a pot of lavender flower herbal tea. With the tea came cinnamon raisin scones and fresh strawberry cream and jam. For lunch I had the spinach quiche and Lillian had the chicken salad. Just when Lillian asked me if they had dessert, our server told us the dessert options. We chose one of each, chocolate for me and berry pound cake for Lillian. Of course she wanted to share, which means she eats most of hers then you give your half-eaten desert to her!

Dinner is served

A couple of weeks ago Lillian made dinner for us. She prepared a salad. She chopped and stirred. And even tongs were used.

Final product.  











I believe these are all the ingredients: spinach, parsley, blood orange slices, a green apple, a lemon, cranberries, several dried herbs, soymilk, ranch dressing and salt. Daddy even ate a few bites of the salad.

Fun with playgroup

Out at the local art museum's walking trail

Wyatt, Lillian, Owen, Lily and Rory

 Lillian and Lily

 playing hide and seek around the naked bottom sculpture

Such a sweet class picture!

The kids made playdoh at school today. Thought these were so sweet. And yes that is Lillian with her "signature pose" sitting next to the teacher, Miss Starr.

Irish Princess

Lillian told me yesterday that she was an Irish Princess and had to wear fancy clothes. We were rearranging the clothes in her dresser drawers (she has 33 pairs of panties!) yesterday and Lillian picked out clothes worthy of an Irish Princess to wear to school today. This is the ensemble she came up with:

 

pink sweater with flowers, a pink and cream striped shirt, a hot pink and orange floral skirt, hot pink pants (I added those because it was too cold not to have legs covered), hot pink socks and red glitter shoes.