Mother-Daughter Tea

Today was a special day for Grace and I.  We had our first mother-daughter event!  It didn't start out as we had planned it, but we made it work.  I had intended on both of us going and getting manicures and pedicures, but it turns out that you need to make appointments to do such things...

 

So, we improvised, and I did Grace's nails.

 

On our way out the door for our special date:

 

Grace chose to wear her (mine 30 years ago) hanbok and begged me to wear a dress.

Since I don't have a decent dress, I dug out and dusted off a skirt to wear.

 

We had several varieties of sandwiches, cupcakes, fruit, and tea (the iced variety since it is 90 degrees with 90+ % humidity).

They even had hats for all of us to wear.

 

Grace chose a tiara (anyone surprised?)

 

Enjoying her cupcake (while eyeing "The Princess and the Frog")

 

They had several games for the girls to play.

This first one was a freeze dance.

 

She loves to dance (though she was hardly moving at the party) and made it to the final round.

 

And she took home the prize!  Though, as I said, it's hard to tell if she really stopped dancing when the music stopped because she was hardly moving at all in the first place.  But, the judge said that she was the winner.

 

She chose a Princess Tiana puzzle.

 

We both really enjoyed ourselves and I look forward to doing more of these things in the future.  I have noticed that Grace is requesting to do more and more things just the two of us, so I'm hoping to make a date with her once a month.  The boys can have their day and us girls can have our day and go do girlie stuff (though I was never much of a "girl" like my precious princess is, so I'm gonna have to figure it out as I go - any suggestions are more than welcome!).