Tea for Two & Two for Tea

This was a much anticipated day for a certain little girl around here. Today was the day she got to bring a friend home from school for an afternoon play date. She was so excited to have a friend over to play princess and to have a fancy tea party. At the Replacements yard sale last weekend, I brought home an entire moving box filled with fine china odds and ends to make up an eclectic little tea set for A to use since she loves having tea parties. She picked out tea cups, saucers and plates for each girl, which tea pot each would use, and which bowls to use with each treat. We had all her favorite tea party treats - Great Grandma's lemonade cupcakes, fruit salad, princess cookies, swedish fish, and of course the ever-elegant Cheeetos. Oh, and pink lemonade for tea. It was so funny to watch them - A likes to drink tea with her pinkie sticking up and we were explaining it to her friend. So then her friend drank her tea and stuck up her pointer finger on the other hand while doing it. I had to work hard not to laugh. Poor A cried and cried when it was time for the play date to end - something we'll need to work on by having them more often I suspect. She can't wait for a chance to bring another friend home from school!