Tea with Two Toy Kitties

This is something I meant to post awhile ago...



Miss M set up a little tea party with her two "friends." This particular tea party was right when she had turned six. Typically, she'll carry on conversations as she plays, doing all the speaking parts herself, like two grown-up ladies discussing what real grown-up ladies discuss -- concerns about fashion, their children, little life crises, etc.:

"Is everybody done with their cookies? Okay, good - now we can have a discussion."

"How did you like the opera last night?"

"It was HORRIBLE! My friend Lisa was in it, and she didn't have enough practice." (She doesn't really a friend named Lisa, nor has she ever been to a real opera.)

"Yesterday the kids were all in the backyard murdering each other. Leopard tried to stop them, but he got his brains knocked out, and now he can't think. And all those kids are living with us now because their house burned down, and we have all their money. And that's good, because we have more than we need. We won't give any of it away. And Leopard still can't think, he might have an operation - oh, there's the telephone, that's the news I've been waiting for . . . Hello? Is the brain functioning? We'll make the appointment for Wednesday? The doctor can't get to his brain unless he does surgery on it..."