Princess Festival 2011

We did it again...  For two reasons, Ada had a blast last year and because it's a fund raiser for Quiet Way which builds wells and schools in Africa... and I have a tender spot for those kind of organizations (my sister and I were volunteer teachers in a school in Kenya 10 years ago... wow...10 years went by fast!).  This time we went with Becca, Grace and Sophie.  It was hot, but the girls never complained... they just played.  Way Cute!  And I don't have a picture of it, but there was one thing that Ada did that I thought was way cute.  All through the garden they have different princess shows... The Magic Flute, The 12 dancing Princesses, The Arabian Nights, Cinderella, Princess Mila, Snow White, etc... Well, we got to the Snow White one about half way through it.  We were walking behind the stage when Snow White comes out on the one side of the stage and the Prince runs off the other side of the stage yelling, "Snow White where are you!?" And of course... Ada yells to him, "She's over here!" Snow White was creative and just tells her, "I don't think he heard you. That's okay."  And after the Snow White show she and Sammy went with Daddy to get the characters to sign her book while I waited with the baby out of the way... they asked Ada what her favorite part of the show was and of course she says, "Where Snow White ate the apple and she died!"  Nice.

Getting signatures

With Princess Aurora

At the "tea party" with the mad hatter

I love these cups... as Jer said, they would make awesome pots for plants

Playing croquet (or hammering in Ada's case) with the Red Queen

The Princess and the pea

Lunch break

Yeah... so this was one of my favorite comments... Ada handed her book to Jasmine to get signed and immediately asked if she could go jump on their cushions

Making cheeser eyes at me

Giggling because the face paint tickles

Love my cute girl!

Admiring themselves in the mirror

Ada, cousin Sophie, and cousin Grace

Taking a breather before the Cinderella show

Sammy trying to grab my camera from me

Our three princesses

At the Cinderella show

Ada's favorite!  Rapunzel.  Ada was in raptures.  She asked Rapunzel to dance with her, but unfortunately there was a line of people behind us and we had to try to get her to hurry a little.

Sammy's favorite part... taking a little swim in the 90 degree weather before heading home

Wendy was so fun!  Last year Ada would only talk to Captain Hook and Peter Pan but ignored Wendy and Tink... it's a little ironic because this year the same girl played Wendy and Ada ran and played with her for a good 20 minutes or so, she also told Captain Hook that he wasn't bad and he tried to convince her that he was scary... She finally gave him a little and told him that he could be a little scary.

Ada and some of the other little girls were trying to pull Wendy into the water coming from a pipe up above... You could tell that she didn't mind getting wet but was trying hard not to get soaked... So she kept yelling that she'd been captured and running off or chasing the girls around the water area.  I think she was pretty lucky actually... of all the characters in the Festival she got to wear the lightest dress... (everyone else was in prom dresses or velvet coats) and she got to play with the kids in the water on this really hot day.