Our Family Tea Party

Well, we finally had our very first family Tea Party. But we are not the ordinary family, and it was not an ordinary Tea Party. It first started when Caleb (always immediately mimic-ed by Ellie) announced we needed some groceries. So Aaron made a grocery list for Caleb to remember - apples, bananas, something starting with a "c", donuts and eggs - and told him how to remember each item because they all started with the alphabet. And Caleb took his money (which somehow materialized out of thin air ... ahhhh, that I could have that power!), took Aaron's keys, hopped in the car and took off to the grocery store (which interestingly resembled our bedroom). And he came back with all the groceries! He remembered the entire list. What a smart boy! HA!

Anyways, the kids eventually figured we needed to buy some tea. So they took me to the grocery store ... (I didn't know the grocery store had laundry baskets with clean laundry ready to be put away in it!) ... and we finally found the tea on what looked to be a computer desk. Caleb was about to walk out of the grocery store without paying (gasp!), but I insisted we stop by the nearest laundry basket to pay for our tea. Phew! Then we returned to Ellie's room (and her little house filled with tea cups and such), and Caleb and Ellie made us tea. Over and over again. And then they swiped our tea and ran squealing off into the sunset (which looked like the hallway) ... only to return to offer us more tea. And I learned that Caleb likes his tea with 30 lumps of sugar. A little tea with his sugar, eh? Aaron became a tea taster as he made a "tea smelling apparatus" for his nose made of out legos. The kids didn't even notice it was there. I think Caleb tried to fool us by offering us tea out of a Little People toilet chair instead of a cup ... but we didn't fall for that! HA - we weren't born yesterday!

Well, the kids are in bed ... both simultaneously yelling for us. And we have our new date TV show (now that The Office is on summer break) ... "Royal Pains". Very good show!

Happy 4th!

~JG