Tako and a tea party

This is Chloe and her new friends, the tako.
Usually Ivan is all over the tako and Chloe is a little girly about touching them.
Guess she was feeling adventurous.





On Friday we took the (big) girls to tea for the first time.
Thanks Brad for watching both the little one!
(He rocked, by the way, and got them both to take nice long naps)

The girls used their best manners
(something we've been discussing during our "Virtuous Girls" week this week)
Bailey said she had a great time.
She was so awesome I would definitely take her again.

The girls made their purses as one of their activities this week
We had so much fun with this theme that we're going to continue it on next week, too.

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