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Catching Up: Summer 2011

Ballet Recital-May 2011

Children's Museum

Lickety Split's frozen custard

It gets drippy on a hot summer day!

Front porch swimming pool

A visit to Kari's house-we got to meet her baby goat!

Summer project: building a dollhouse out of cardboard boxes

Alice helped paint her dollhouse.

Amy's ice cream

Flavor?  Chocolate, of course!

No worries-it washed out.

Dancin' at a Texas Sapphires show

Yay! Aunt Abbey came to visit!

Being silly with Uncle Matt.

On the way to Build-a-Bear Workshop! 

Smurfette's first bath

Abbey got Alice a Smurfette for her birthday.

Celebrating and dancing in the rain!  It's been a long drought.

Remembering Lily on her 4th birthday.

Alice blew out the candles for her big sister.

Themes

Time to relax and play--NOT!  We are scrambling around trying to find a job for Jason, wondering whether we'll stay put or not, catching up on blogging, and most importantly, deciding on Alice's 3rd birthday party theme!!!
It has been a long discussion that has spanned a week, and here is the order of ideas: Cinderella (hers), mermaid (mine), Dora (hers), Tinkerbell (hers), Strawberry Shortcake (mine).  I really talked up the Strawberry Shortcake theme because I'm in love with it!  Instantly a whole vision blossomed in my mind involving vintage fabrics, green and white striped tights and strawberry-flavored everything.  I spent a whole day online looking for vintage Strawberry sheets and the old movie from the 80s I remember watching with Abbey.  Alice must see it!

The next day she boldly announced that she wanted to have a "Winnie a Pooh" birthday party.  Humph.  Nothing really blossomed in my head for that.  But this might make a cute background to the invitation:

It wasn't just a passing fancy, either.  A few days later and she is still wanting her "Winnie a Pooh" birthday party.  Well, I guess I will save a bunch of money if I don't go Strawberry Shortcake crazy.