Girl Power Weekend

"Girl Power Weekend" is what we call the weekend when daddy is out of town and it's just us girls home to fend for ourselves. We all miss daddy dearly when he is away, but I gotta tell ya... we always make the most of our girl's weekends. We make messes. We are really loud. We have friends over. We run around the house screaming. All things that are difficult to do with daddy's work schedule. Plus, all the extra fun helps the girls pass the time so they don't miss daddy so much. If I let there be any down time at all, they remember that daddy is away and there are lots of tears! Busy is certainly better.
This is how we busied ourselves this time...

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We had sisters, Keira and Maya, over for lunch and a playdate after school on Friday. They are so cute because Keira is in Charlie's class and Maya is in Ryan's class. They are the only sibling pairs like this in the school this year and they all play together so well. This is Keira in this the picture, Maya was busy with the castle in the next room.

We went out for sushi with Auntie T on Friday night.

We had lunch and a playdate at the park with Cousin Katie and Cousin Cameron on Saturday morning. Don't let this picture fool you, Cameron sure is RUNNING around like you wouldn't believe!

Finally, we had Kendall over Saturday for the afternoon.
All the girls played so well together. First we played dress up. Look at the disaster mess of the dress up clothes! (Whew-wee... Steve would have NEVER let that happen! Hee-Hee! We loved it!)

Then, we read "Tea for Ruby" and had our very own tea party. Mommy even pretended to be the Queen of England/waitress. Pretty funny sight since I am horrrrible with accents! Thankfully only toddlers were the audience!


Next, each girl got to bake their own heart-shaped cake. This is them washing their hands before the baking began. Proof that the cakes were edible (at least until Charlie licked her own frosting of course!)

We painted a craft!

And finally took rides in the girls' battery operated car up and down, up and down, up and down the street before we ended the afternoon with the frosting of the cakes!

Can you believe we did all that in just 3 hours! It made me remember what it is like to be in the classroom... exhausting but so much fun and certainly rewarding!

We missed you daddy. I swear! (Don't let all the fun fool you!!!)