A Very Girly B-day Dinner

This is a LONG post.  The sweet girls in this post have relatives who read this and want ALL the details....so....

Today we all headed out of town for a NeNa and Papa sponsored birthday dinner for Iris & Lucy.  And since American Girl seems to be the theme of all their play for the past year (or two), that is, of course, where they chose to eat.

The Girls took great care picking out their outfits and hairstyles for themselve and their dolls, since today was so special!

They shopped until we all about dropped.  They have very different styles of shopping.  Iris wants everything, we then proceed to carry everything around the whole store and she has to weed out the things she wants the least.  Lucy works the whole store over before hesitantly  picking out a few well thought out items.  After all the mad shopping, here are Mom and Sherry holding Felicity, Octavia and Leonora Leonore while we wait to eat.

the long-suffering brother....who could have had a respite with Daddy and Papa (who temporarily ventured to a more masculine store) but he valiantly stuck by his sisters

The excited birthday girls, eagerly seated with their dolls...

Iris and Leonora Leonore...

Lucy and Felicity...

Group shot...

Lucy looking pleased with her Learning Express card from Sherry & David....

Iris looking like she couldn't be more shocked that Sherry & David would get her a Learning Express gift card...

Clyde got Lucy and cookie book w/ cookie cutters, and he got Iris a ballerina sticker book...I think they liked them :)  He done good.

Lucy got Iris a Barbie book.

Iris got Lucy the 'Meet Kanani' book.

Stephen and I got them Webkinz....cuz the world just might end if their accounts expire ;)

We all sang Happy Birthday over raspberry sorbet and a sugar cookie....

Clyde got in on the action with a banana split!

Then came the moochers...

More sweet shots....

When we got home they fell into bed...

They left me with the responsibility of putting Leonora Leonore, Felicity and Octavia to bed.  Which, I thought I did very well, if I do say so myself!  (Notice the sleeping mask and teddy bear Lucy made for Felicity....so sweet!)  You'll see just how much I reverted to my girlhood tonight if you read the next post ;)

It was a lovely time....thanks, NeNa and Papa!!!