TEDDY BEAR TEA 2019 ❤️✨ | I built this with a specialist brain and a mama’s heart with the most incredible team from the Ritz-Carlton Kuala Lumpur. Thoughtful, deliberate, present, the best feedback I got was how loved the mamas and littles felt, like they had been invited into our home and they were safe just to be littles and mamas, time to pause and connect in the busy busy busy of the season without having to worry about anything.
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A menu we built from a specialist mama viewpoint and a little big girl’s joy at coming to an afternoon tea - freshly baked scones, nut-free treats, minimal food coloring, the cutest designs, reduced sugar, as little processed food as we could - a build-your-own Teddy Bear sandwich made w real meats, eggs, veggies for you to pick-and-choose because a sense of control makes it her tea party too. A middle tier of rainbow fresh fruit, a warm milk (dairy and soy) of dreams, and of course, a little bubbly for mama and daddy.
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The messiest most fun salt dough ornaments, a true testament that it was never about the end result but how play is so very much about the process, that the experience was in the making. The creating, stuffing little hungry bears w cotton and little sparkly heart, one-on-one with mama and daddy, that special time to feel like they were the only ones in the room.
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The loudest twirliest silliest storytime, to move and gather and get our bodies dancing before the most epic surprise. A visit from Santa, but then, what is a teddy bear tea party without the kindest, most respectful, sweetest (giant) teddy bear in town.
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We built this for the little big girl that has changed our world, that has made our hearts explode and grow bigger in ways we could have never imagined, then loved on a tribe that came and loved with us.
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This girl who giggled at rainbow marshmallows and when I asked her what her favorite part was she said was taking all the candy canes from the milk bar and distributing them out.
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“It made them so happy, mama. I think they liked it!”
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City on a hill, Ella Grace. Thank you for hosting a little teddy bear party with mama and daddy.
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(Did you figure it out yet? 😂❤️✨)
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See you next year!
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