Monday, February 23, 2009

The Saturday Outing: Sweet, Sweet Emily

Saturday was rainy and cold, so our play date with Emily was inside, and I cannot say enough times what a good hostess this little girl is.

We descended during her nap (of course), but the lady stayed awake the entire visit this time, although she stayed close to mom and dad as the chaos unfolded in her world.

It was so clean and well organized when we arrived.


And then we took over Emily's room. And her toys. And her sippy cups. And more.



And she played there in the midst of us and shared all of her things with the hoard of kids like she was an old pro.




We love this little chair.





But we REALLY loved this little motorized four-wheeler. And they had a pretty good run until it was time to go to lunch, which happened to be about the time the Stubers started to forget how to share.

Alida was all about the rocking toys.







And then it was time to go.

And Elaine didn't take it very well.

Half an hour into the drive home, she still wasn't taking it very well.

And later we discovered that she was upset because she couldn't reach the stolen toy she had absconded with.

Obviously, we need a category for thievery (and plagiarism Dukes).

4 comments:

The Kings said...

Oh yeah, we missed that right off. Good grief.

Poor girl just needed a momento of the big event.

It was great fun!

Mommy Jenny said...

LOVE the little dress Elaine is wearing! And, surely she didn't steal the toy. She was probably just borrowing it until the next play date!

The Dukes said...

That's okay, I just copied right back in the other direction and made my background white. I tried other colors to avoid it, but I just don't like them as well. Flattery and all that, right?

Anonymous said...

Well, glad to know that everyone had great fun even through the rain:) And what's the use of having new friends if you can't "borrow" something you really like?

It was so sweet of you all to brave the drive for the great visit. All Mark has talked about is how the girls and guys can sign. I think that's great!

Four smart, cute, sweet children. Wonderful day.