Afternoon Tea

One of our favourite things is to "do afternoon tea". The two birthday girls make great companions as they don't mind dressing up and spending the afternoon being sociable.

Maddie's favourite was scones and cream.

While Sophie was drawn to anything with a strawberry in it. Luckily the Saturday afternoon Hyatt buffet included a range of strawberry based delights. The girls were very strategic in their timing at the buffet and kept notes on how many times certain guests returned to it (and the effect on their waistlines).

We did a lot of talking about our favourite topics: food, school, exams, music, Maggie the dog, our fave films and TV shows, certain house guest's habits, travel and jewellery.

Our favourite girl came over for afternoon tea today. Despite her obvious enjoyment of my fresh batch of date, banana and orange muffins and bio dynamic yoghurt we saw her frown (for the first time) a few times as the afternoon wore on. I think she knew her Mummy & Daddy's week long holiday was coming to an end.

Despite this we still saw plenty of smiles. Miss E seems to be aware of a lot of what we are saying now, vigorously nodding in agreement or shaking her head in disagreement at all the appropriate times and able to point to things (especially body parts) accurately when required.