Crocodile Stewart

If Martha Stewart had had the Crocodile Hunter's love child, the result would have been Samantha. She refuses to get her hair cut because she doesn't want to look like a boy, yet last week when we were thinning out closets, she happily claimed Chris' old clothes for herself. She more than holds her own in Nerf gun battles with her brother and neighborhood boys, but will happily play Polly Pockets with her cousin Kathleen.

She is dreaming of the day when she can take part in the TV show the Alaska experiment. Yet on Wednesday afternoon she held the cutest tea party for her cousin. The Easter bunny brought her a teapot and four teacups with little luncheon plates. The plates have a spot for the teacup and a couple of cookies. Sami decided that our kitchen table was too dirty for the tea party, so she set up the card table. Last weekend we attended a Green Festival in Chicago and one of the displays was selling organic tea, and she bought a teaball. She picked the one she thought would best match her teaset. She decorated the table with a blue vase she made in pottery class. The vase matched the blue plates and cups. She found some artificial flowers to put in it. She put out placemats and even found dresses for them to wear. You can't go to a teaparty in play clothes after all. She served cornbread that she had made the day before, lunchmeat and some veggies. She even had a little note to invite Kathleen over. She was very enthusiastic and wanted everything perfect. They had a very good time.

She wants to have a teaparty for her grandmas. We will probably have to serve cheesecake as Chris is determined to bake a plain cheesecake, a strawberry cheesecake and a chocolate cheesecake. Sami likes to make bread. She would have better luck if she would use a recipe. Chris likes to make pies and lately cheesecake. We are going to have to open a bakery soon.