A golden royal celebration

Once Upon a Time, Miss A sent out a royal decree that all the knights and ladies of the kingdom should come to help her celebrate her GOLDEN birthday. Like always, the "princess helper" (a.k.a mommy) used a little magic created by her favorite scribe and artisan-- the fabulous Loralee Lewis-- to transform the royal garden into a party suitable for her highness. 

 

Princess A dressed in her newly made golden gown and matching crown and anxiously awaited the arrival of her guests.

 

The first carriage to arrive belonged to none other then Miss A's soon to be best friend Belle. 

 

It wasn't long before the rest of the guests enter through the castle gates where makeovers awaited them.  Our young knaves were adorned in shining armor and knighted by our king and then sent to the jousting fields where they bravely battled for their lady's honor.

 

The princesses wore their finest gowns, and with Belle's help, they readied themselves for the festivities with a tiara, sparkly nails, jewels, purse, wand, and a coat of lip gloss.  

 

Even the tiniest princess was ready for the ball. 

 

While the boys continued to battle, the little princesses worked on crafting fine golden bracelets.  

Her royal highness's first request was that the celebration begins with some dancing, and so dance they did.  

It's hard not to work up an appetite with all the dancing and so it was finally time to feast. 

 

The knights sat down at their round table 

 

and the ladies sat down for "tea".   

They daintily nibbled on tiara cookies, Tiana's chocolate frogs, Snow White's apples and dip, Aurora's spinning wheels, Rapunzel's twisted and tangled pretzels, treats from under the sea, Jasmin's pita chips, and bibbidi bobbidi berries.

 While they dinned, the beautiful Belle sang a couple tunes and told of her adventures with the Beast. 

 

While waiting for dessert, the knights added their crests to shields and the princesses made crowns for the day they would become queens.

 

Every one finished glittering and engraving just in time for cake.

 

 

  Who knows what the little princess wished for since she was already living a dream.  

 

Before the guests departed, we saved the kingdom by slaying the golden dragon and were rewarded with treasure that fell from his belly.

 And although this little tale had to come to an end, every one returned to their castles and manors to continue their adventure in their own little way.  And we all know little Miss Princess A is living happily ever after.

I can't believe I forgot about this one

My actual favorite conversation was one night when we were sitting out in a park with my sister.  She was making little flower rings and necklaces for Miss A and my niece.  She uncrossed her legs revealing a long crease on her leg from being crossed.  E came up and was very concerned about her "ouchie". She assured him it was just an indentation. 
E- "Indentation, what's an indentation?"
Jess tried to explain what an indentation was when he excitedly exclaimed, "Ohhhh.  You mean like when my underwear is too tight?"

Lyrics to songs sung around here:
"I stopped the sheriff but mmmm the deputy mmmm uh-huh"
"Old McDonald had a farm, Eli Eli Ho"
From Grim Grinning Ghosts (the song played in the Haunted Mansion) "... they begin to tear your eyes. Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize" (really "they begin to terrorize").
From Splash Mountain "Slippery Do Da, Slippery Nay"
"It's a small world, after all, it's a life it's a gift it's a life is a gift, it's a small world after all."
"yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me, da da da da da da da da me hardies yo ho, da da da da da me hardies yo ho"
"Rumor has it ???????"

The coming and goings of June

The beginning of June was busy with plans for Miss A's birthday. Auntie Beth arrived to stay with us for a while. Our mornings were filled with a couple swimming lesson classes I volunteered to teach. In our afternoons we found some sort of adventure to keep us busy.  We went to the drive-in, children's museum, science museum, zoo, had some play dates, went swimming,  won tickets at Chuck-E-Cheese, celebrated daddy's birthday, dug for crystals at the salt plains, and then headed out on a road trip to remember. (I misplaced my camera for most of our adventures so this is all I have to show for it)

Here are my favorite conversations from the month:

At the zoo eating an Icee E said-"My head is so cold it's on fire"

We were walking up to our car in the parking lot of the Dr's office and I was standing a little closer to the car next to ours as I fumbled for my keys.  Miss A looked at the car and said: "Is this our car?" I said, "You know it's not" and she said, "Yes because this car is clean and our car is dirty."

At swimming lessons, E said, "Mommy you teach good swimming lessons. I wish I was a big daddy so that I can teach swimming lessons like you"

Aunt Elizabeth asked E about something my dad gave him: "Did your grandfather get that for you?"

E responded-"He's not my grandfather. He's Pappy.  He's not an old man!"

When anticipating his doctor's appointment to get his staph infection checked out E said "Mommy feel my heart.  It's beating really fast.  I think it's a little bit scared to go to the doctor but the rest of my body isn't scared but my heart is nervous."

E explained to a friend of mine where you get chicken. "It comes from horses. You shoot the horse. You pull off the skin and squeeze the blood out.  Then you take the bones out and cook it." 

The friend asked, "So chicken comes from horses".  

E-"Yes, and sometimes chicken comes from turkeys" 

Friend-" Does chicken ever come from chickens?" 

E-"No! that would be disgusting!"

When I asked him about it he said "sometimes chicken comes from horses, and sometimes from cows, and sometimes from turkeys, and sometimes from pigs, and sometimes from sheeps (pronounced "sheep" "es"). 

When we are getting ready to swim Miss A askes "Where is my baby soup?"(bathing suit) and "Where are my gobbles?"(goggles)

E-"My daddy's got skills!!!"

Miss A has turned into a little ferret.  If something is missing guarantee she's found it and stashed it away somewhere.  The other day I was looking for my goggles and fins to go to my boot camp and they weren't in my bag.  I was frantically looking for them and asked her if she knew where they were. She said, "hmm, I can't know?" After a while, she went outside and came back in so proud of herself for finding my fins.  Apparently "I" left then wedged between the abandoned dog house and the fence.  Silly me, how could I forget that is where I keep them?

Hi Ya

 If you've met E you know he has a lot of energy.  We've tried multiple sports as a positive outlet for his energy but none of them have really clicked for him. The one thing he has stuck with is his gymnastic class. (maybe someday I'll actually dig up the cute pics from last year when he and Miss A both participated).  After we took a break last summer, E started back up in a karate gymnastics combination class.  At the end of May, he showed us his moves during the M&M Olympics.