The girls asked for a tea party outside. Since it's beautiful out, I thought why not ! It doesn't take much effort to have one anyway ! I simply prepared a hot pot of tea (dip the green tea bag in for one second, just for show, for the girls to see they're having "real" tea !), filled the creamer with milk, and lay out some fruits and some cookies. Our girls like this a lot, drinking from real cup (a break from their plastic ones) and eating snacks ! Come to think of it, who doesn't ? I like it ! and so too my husband ! Except he has coffee in his cup.
Once downstairs in the yard, I filled 1/5 of the girls' tea cup with tea, leaving plenty of room for milk. They had about 3 cups of "tea", ate some raspberries then ran off to see their dad planting the fig tree ! They came back for more raspberries, took a sip of tea and wanted to play on the grass ! That's a signal to me that tea party is over. Tea time is never that long with the girls, 15-20 min. and off they go. If I leave it out, they will run back for the snacks but I don't like to mix playing and eating together ! Their hands touch everything in our yard, from grass to dirt to snails to worms to ants, so yeah, I try to limit their daily "yucky stuff" intake :-)
It was nice just to be out, planting, checking on our garden and seeing little green spouts poking through the dark soil. We have lots to look forward to this summer ! I hope our little garden will thrive. I just can't wait to eat them figs !!!
