Sophia came to play

A couple of weeks ago, Mia's friend Sophia came over to play for the whole afternoon! Her parents went to the lake to celebrate her uncle's 40th birthday on a party boat...not ideal for an almost 3 yr old, so we got her! :) Mia showed Sophia all her toys...the dollhouse and dressup stuff were huge hits. They even were little cheerleaders while Daryl played the wii. Daryl read to the girls while they had lunch....he couldn't believe that one of Mia's books about computers actually showed a floppy as being an ideal storage medium :)

Niles, our dog was banned to upstairs...he's not great around children. So he was up stairs off and on barking or whining to come down....we would tell him to be quiet and stop whining...Sophia told him to Shhhhh. At the end of the day, everyone was happy, but exhausted....and looking forward till the next time this sweetness comes for a visit.

Mia on her birthday 01.20.09

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Fairy Tea Party

While enjoying Ethiopian food last week with friends, I mentioned that Mia had finally seen Peter Pan and was in LOVE with Tinkle Bell :) Courtney's daughter, Izzy and Erica's daughter, Devin are totally into fairies and princesses and the mamas were thrilled that they had another little girl who was just getting her feet wet in the fairy world. Well a Fairy Tea Party HAD to be planned! So on Friday, Mia dressed in her fairy finest, carrying blueberry scones, went to her first Fairy Tea Party.

Wow! What a spread!!! Courtney went all out!!! The mamarazzi was in full force for this too cute event. I found that Mia enjoys dipping her scone in her peppermint tea. All the little girls...and Devin's bro Joey, all dressed up at a tea party was beyond precious! Then Courtney blew up an air mattress, covered it in pillows for their Fairy Pad..so they could watch the Tinkerbell movie in style. the movie was well done and the girls were delighted to hang on their fairy pad while the mamas chatted and ate crumb cake (thanks Erica!)

Ohhhh then it was discovered that Mia's birthday was a mere 4 days away! Well! The girls ran around decorating Izzy's room and pulled out a Melissa and Doug birthday cake in Mia's honor. I think the older girls were more into it than Mia, because all attention went to Courtney and her laundry basket filled with snowballs...um, rolled up socks. Snowball FIIIIIGHT!!!! We ended up staying so late that the dads came home, but brought pizza with them. This was a Fairy Tea Party that Mia will never forget!

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