A Storybook Princess Party

Hear Ye, Hear Ye....This past Saturday Princess Emerson was a special guest at a very "royal" celebration.  Princess Haegan hosted her 3rd birthday at her parent's castle.  She requested that all the princesses in attendance wear proper princess attire to the storybook party.  The princesses obliged and showed up in their best gowns for the magical birthday party. 

The Royal Court
(Princesses Reagan, Emerson, Kayla, and Haegan - Julianne and Aurora showed up later)

The princesses were hailed with a special surprise when Cinderella (the grandest of them all) showed up to surprise Princess Haegan.  You should have seen the look on Princess Haegan's face when she first caught sight of Cinderella; she was very excited that Cinderella would attend her royal celebration.  All the princesses took turns taking their portrait with Cinderella and she was very patient and kind to all the younger princesses. 

The Princesses had a splendid time playing in the mini royal castle.  Of course they loved that it was pink and white, their favorite colors.  They made cookies in the kitchen and drank tea.  Cinderella even came in to partake in the fun. 

Princess Haegan had a very regal birthday cake.  The royal village baker made her a cake that was shaped like her castle and had all her friends adorned on it.  What a very lucky little princess!!!

I love this picture of Princess Haegan

and her mom, Queen Kerry. 

Princess Emerson indulged in two BIG pieces of the royal cake. 

After partaking in the royal cake, it was time for some noble court games.  All the princesses took their turn batting at the Cinderella pinata.  Princess Reagan showed all the other princesses how to swing the bat, her father is a local baseball coach.  The girls kept swinging away until all the royal candy came tumbling out...then all the princesses hit the ground to collect their candy riches!

After jester game fun, it was time for Cinderella to head back to her castle, as she had a royal ball to attend that evening.  All the princesses requested one last picture with her before she left; she obliged graciously. 

Some of my favorite pictures of

Princess Emerson from the royal bash!

Wordless Wednesday: Mmmmm, Cookie Cake!!!

Show-and-Tell #36, Mommy's Old Dog

I'm a little behind in blogging this week, I've been feeling a bit under the weather and blogging hasn't been the first thing on my mind.  I wanted to at least get Friday's Show-and-Tell blog out before tomorrow's Wordless Wednesday blog, so at least I could say I didn't go an entire week without posting...since my last blog was last week's Wordless Wednesday!

This past Friday, Emerson took one of my old toys to school for Show-and-Tell.  My parents kept a lot of my old toys, dolls, Barbies, etc., from when I was a child.  And, when I had a house of my own, they promptly gave them all to me, knowing that one day I might have a child of my own to play with them.  This adorable stuffed bulldog was once played with by me when I was a bit older than Emerson.  I believe his name was Buster but I can't be sure.  Emerson and I agreed that Buster was a good name for him, so even if it wasn't Buster when he was my dog, he is now Buster as Emerson's dog.  Buster has held up pretty well since he is more than 20 years old (am I really that old?).  Who knows, maybe Emerson can one day pass Buster down to her kids!!!

Show-and-Tell #36

May 7, 2010

Buster (Mommy's Old Dog)

Wordless Wednesday: Dining Alfresco!!!

Outdoor Water Fun!!!

After strawberry pickin' with the Herman girls this morning, Amy suggested that later in the afternoon we let the girls get in the baby pool and run through our sprinkler toys.  We decided to get the pool out before nap, so the water could warm up for later.  I am sure it was a sight  to see us girls trying to blow up the pool and the beach ball sprinkler toy.  We tried our air pump but that didn't work so Amy tackled the pool with her hot air and I tackled the blow-up beach ball with mine.  At least our husbands won't have to worry about our hot air when they get home...we left it outside with the pool and toys (ha!).

So, after nap (ahem, singing in her crib for 2 hours), we headed outside for some outdoor water fun.  Emerson, Ivie and Macie were a bit hesitant of the pool at first; all three of them just stood there for a minute.  Emerson and Macie continued their hesitance, but Ivie was full force going between the pool and the beach ball sprinkler.  I think Ivie certainly had the best time out of the three of them.  Emerson just went in and out of the pool and would never really sit down.  Hopefully when we pull the pool out tomorrow, Emerson will feel a bit more inclined to "swim" around a bit.  I hope this isn't foreshadowing for future swim lessons!!