Housewarming party

Since Christmas Avery has been wanting to have her friends over to play in the playhouse. It seems like the weeks have gotten away from us with starting school again for everyone and lots of things going on. Finally last week I got it together and told Avery we would have Claire and Sophia over to play in the playhouse. I told her we would make it a "mini party" a "housewarming" of sorts and have them come play dress up and have some dinner. She loved this plan. So we made a little invite and sent them off to school with her. Then decorated the house up a little bit to make it nice and cozy and inviting....As we were getting things ready Emma was following us around and she kept pointing at everything and repeating "party...party" "Yep are you ready to have a party with the girls and get dressed up pretty in dress ups?" "Yeah!" she would say grinning ear to ear. Ave and Emma went in and picked out things to wear. It was cute to watch Avery help Emma pick out a skirt and then of course made sure to outfit her with shoes. Why is a little girl in a tutu so stinkin cute? We let her hold the bunch of mini lollipops for the party and she was more than happy to assist in this job. I couldn't resist getting a picture of her holding them because she looked so sweet.Me and my cute girls, they are so adorable, I am having so much fun doing all the girly things with them and getting to be their mommy. The girls came in their dress up outfits and hurried out back to start playing. It was really cute to hear their reactions to the sight of an actual house that was their size. Within minutes they had all chosen roles as a sister or mom or aunt and were busy ironing, cooking dinner and talking about how to take care of their two new babies. I was in girl heaven. All princess dresses, playing house and cute little conversations. Heaven. I was really impressed with Avery and how she always let Emma in to play with them without me telling her to. She is such a good big sister. She always, always includes Emma even when her friends are there.
After playing for awhile we had them sit out in the "front patio" of their residence and served them dinner. Tortilla wraps from Costco with chips and sugar cookies with frosting and little heart sprinklesIt was fun to sit and listen to their conversations as they ate their dinner. They seriously sounded like little women on a luch outing. They talked about their rooms and which princesses they liked, stuff they were doing in their classrooms, stuff about dance etc. etc. I think their favorite part though was the lemonade and the fact that they could keep coming back on their own and filling up their glass. They thought that was really fun. They would sit and eat for a few minutes then one would check their glass and say "Oh I think I need some more lemonade" and get up to get some. Within seconds the other two were following sure that they also needed to "top off" their glass.Emma kept trailing along behind them wherever they went grinning and occasionally coming over to hug me and hurriedly ramble something off before running off to join them. She was loving having all the girls there. Big brother who watching the whole thing was dying to get involved somehow and decided to put on a magic show for the girls. This ended up being very entertaining, he did a good job and the girls liked it.After some more playing we colored some paper houses that they could take home and cut out and construct. Then more playing until the very last second that they had to go home. After they left I told Avery to go get changed so we could get stuff picked up. She hurried off to her room and then stopped half way and turned around. She came over and squeezed my legs tightly. "Thanks Mom, that was so fun" she said and without waiting for a response headed back to her bedroom. I looooooove her. It was so much fun. Sitting here typing about this makes me think about the fact that we haven't yet opened Hunter's CSI fingerprint analysis kit from Santa yet. Thoughts of a planned "who dun it?" mystery for Hunter are starting to swirl around in my head. :) :)