Marvelous Mid-May

Jessica decided that she missed birthday parties with two of the kids in the 1 friend, 1 activity thing. The kids realized with school wrapping up and other things that we weren't seeing friends as much. Everyone needed some gender specific time. In addition a new a very dear friend family was moving. So Jessica had a themed playdate for each kid. We noticed that the kids have a very wide range of friends. They got thrown back-to-back-to-back. Elijah chose trains. Rebekah chose a tea party. Caleb chose Star Wars. All parties had a treasure hunt aspect. For Elijah's other entertainment we set up two separate Geotrax lay-outs. We had train jigglers and made trains out of cheese, pretzel wheels, cheese curls and raisins. His special drink was hot chocolate with marshmallows thanks to a brief scene from The Polar Express "hot hot hot hot chocolate". Rebekah hosted a tea party. We used a silver plate set from Mimmom. Rebekah made the tea cookies. We had a guest bring cucumber sandwiches and we had raisin cinnamon swirl bread with cream cheese sandwiches. Her tea flavors were chamomile and lemon. Our photo op was taken outside with the tea set on the ottoman and the butterfly bench. Caleb invited jedis to train with bubble blasters versus light sabers and constructing a lego ship and pose with a storm trooper. They also decorated "jedi" cookies and had Yoda Soda.

We took some schooling pictures and there's a drawing by Rebekah. It is her room and Ann-Marie's room in Heaven.