Tea Party

 

These are the main gang. Her favorites. They sleep in her pillow every night. Yes. I said IN her pillow. They are watching the snow we had come down.

Next year Abby goes to kindergarten and you know what? I'm gonna miss having her around all day. She's a hoot to watch. If ever there was a book titled "Personality", then it was most certainly written about Abby. She can go from shy little angel to crazy spitfire to contentedly playful in the span of an hour. That being said, I can sit on the couch and watch her play for a long time before getting bored of her antics. She runs around the house all day on all four appendages. Why? She pretends to be a dog/horse/cat/random animal. When she's done doing this, she pulls out a hundred (literally) of her stuffed animals and has parties. Tea parties, birthday parties, food parties, going away parties...the list is too long to delve into actually. She will gather up every single pretend food item and dish she can find and give each and every animal something to eat. They get presents, party favors, and drinks. Those stuffed animals can be happy, sad, mean as a hornet, or just down right crazy. But I kid you not, those stuffed animals are out of her room and being played with all the time. Every. Single. Day. They each have a name, favorite food, and (believe it or not) punishable offenses. She has her favorites of course. And just for records sake, I will post a picture soon of the main gang. Black, Cheezy, Tippy, Rainbow, Cookiecrumb, Dotty, Strawberry, Pinky, Dimey, Eggbert, Panda, and Crazy Psycho Squirrel. Yep. That's right. I know all their names (plus about thirty more). It's fascinating to watch her play and though I will not miss the messy house, I will miss seeing her creativity when she plays 'tea party' all day long.

This is the main gang meeting Evie. Yes. Abby set them up like they were looking at her curiously.

This is one of the many tea parties they have. This picture was taken before she brought out the other hundred animals.

They were all dressed up and listening to Abby tell a story.

Abby got to bring a stuffed gorilla named Cody home from school as a school project. Each kid gets a turn and I will say that Cody was never more loved than he was with Abby. This is his birthday party. Everyone was invited and he even got a birthday crown.