Social distancing day 31: tea party, picnic and puddles

Today started out with a tea party for Cinnaboo's birthday party.  Cinnaboo is one of Wren's stuffed animals and has birthdays fairly often.  Usually such events are met with some pretend play, pretend food and sometimes dress-up.  Today we went all out.  I got out a tea set that Wren was given a while ago that is actually lovely (hand painted and way too nice for small children), we made real tea, chamomile, much to the delight of both Wren and Flynt and party hats (left over from Wren's birthday last year).

I couldn't believe how into the party Flynt was.  It too him a couple tries but he was delighted to sip tea out of the fancy cup and pretend to eat cake.  Wren thought it was awesome.  The two kids drank a pot and a half of tea (all be it a tiny pot).  It was great.  We also sang happy birthday at least 5 times.

It was decided that we needed some party games after the tea party so we hid Easter eggs and played some other random things but nothing was a huge hit.  The next big success was an indoor picnic.  It was a bit rainy outside and eating outside didn't seem all that appealing to me so I compromised on an indoor picnic.  That was a huge hit and both kids were delighted.  It was further appreciated when we invited the party guests (stuffed animals) to join us.

We finished off the day with some good puddle stomping.  There was some drama about Flynt wanting to ride Wren's bike but not being tall enough to reach the pedals (hence the helmet) but he got over it with the puddles.  It required dry pants and socks but worth it.  All in all, a good day.