Our Birthday Tea Party!

To celebrate the birthdays of all three girls, we had a tea slumber party. We invited my brother Harold's girls, Yazi and Ari, and my sister Yvonne's girls, Sophie and Mila. There is probably nothing more exciting for my girls than to play with their cousins--they are their best friends.

We made sure that everyone was dressed in appropriate princess attire and that Tchaikovsky was playing in the background. We then started with the first course of the afternoon tea which was PB & J butterfly sandwiches, cucumber heart sandwiches, egg salad flower sandwiches, mini chicken croissant sandwiches and carrot sticks and grapes. The PB & J were of course the favorite! This was accompanied by blueberry and raspberry tea sweetened with agave. For the next course, warm lemon poppy seed and orange cranberry scones were served with cream, raspberry jam, lemon curd and more tea. The girls loved putting the agave and milk in their tea!

When everyone was finished, the girls started some wonderful impromptu dancing! "Sleeping Beauty" was playing and they just wanted to twirl! It was so nice to watch. My mom used to dance with them and taught them some cute dancing they've not forgotten. It felt like she was with us. This went on for about 30 minutes!

Afterwards, we had a little flower hunt. I had tied notes to various flowers in the yard and each note gave a clue for the next one to find. It was so cute, most of the girls can read now and they each took turns reading a clue. The hunt led us ultimately to our orange tree (that smells wonderful!) and that is where we found our butterfly necklaces hanging for each girl!

By this time, it was getting chilly so we decided to go inside for our yogurt birthday "cheesecake." The girls had begged me to make it-- I had made it last year for Ceci's birthday. (If you'd like the recipe, click here.) I made each of the birthday girls their own little one and we sang to each of them and let them blow out their candles.