Ava's Morning Tea

So Ava wanted to have a few friends over for a tea party to celebrate her 5th birthday.  She had been talking about a tea party for her birthday since Christmas when she got her tea set from Santa.  I thought it sounded easy enough and I decided to plan it early during school holidays so that I wouldn't have a baby and spoil everything.  Well, it turns out, I did have a baby and spoiled everything the day before the scheduled tea party.  So we rescheduled for the last day of school holidays, April 28th.

So I baked way too many cupcakes (I'd rather have too many than too little) and some of the other mums stayed and helped and it was a smashing success.


Ava's friend, Annabelle, came early and helped us frost all those millions of cupcakes.

 Here's the table all set up.

 It's very darling and girly, isn't it?

 Here are the first guests, Sonya on Ava's right, and Annabelle on Ava's left.

 Will thought he was part of this thing and so we let him sit there til the other guests arrived which worked out well since he was done by the time they got there.

 Ava's other tea party guests, Lara, Shylah, and Stephanie.

 Lily served them all tea and cupcakes and fruit and veg.  Then she took them all on a treasure hunt she organized.  Lily is one of the best party planners ever, I love having her around.  

 Then we made this awesome butterfly craft and then the girls just played til it was time to go.   This butterfly was Will's...I think he ate some of the candy out of one wing before I snapped this pic. Haha!

 Here's Ava after her party.  Could she be anymore girly?  Princess dress, fairy wings and arms full of ponies!! Love it!  That's so Ava!