An Occasion

The other day Caleb decided he wanted to have a tea party like we used to do. A tea party with real tea and cake and stuffed animal friends. I was busy in the garden. But I made tea and set out cake and told the boys to go ahead and have the tea party while I worked outside. Zane joined in and they both went upstairs to get dressed. The put on their "occasion" clothes, they called them -- a pair of shorts (with underwear, they both made a point of telling me) and a clean shirt. I love this term occasion clothes. It is just clean clothes (no swim trunks) and underwear. Zane said he would have put on a tuxedo if he had one because he is now the ruler of the upstairs. Then they played with Bionicles for a couple of hours while the tea got cold.

When I came in, I added some snacks to the tea party. They ate and slurped back some strong, cold tea and continued playing Bionicles. Later we washed the cars. The babies helped. We all got soaked but the girls didn't mind. Then Caleb played in the soapy water for a long time by himself.