Tea for Four

For Martin Luther King Day, the girls and I spent the day cleaning while Daddy studied. They were such great helpers that I threw them a princess tea party to celebrate. We ate cucumber sandwiches, tea cakes (mini cupcakes) and drank, of course, herbal tea (echinacea... that's all we had... but, hey, we haven't been sick for months). Lady daringly tries the tea and decides that she doesn't like it. "May I have some milk, please?"

When I first poured the tea, Bell said "I don't like it." I said "how do you know if you like it or not when you haven't even tried it?" She tried some and not only liked it, she even asked for more!

Baby G wore her princess gown and tiara and LOVED the tea cakes (made with egg whites and applesauce). She even ate her cucumber sandwich. No tea, though. We tried to put her on whole milk since her birthday is this week... BIG mistake. It caused such an upset in her system that we're thinking of waiting another month before we give her cow's milk again. We didn't want to make things worse by throwing tea into the mix. Now what to do with all that whole milk? Clam chowda, anyone?