On Monday, I took my three crazies to the zoo! :) We love our zoo passes! I had the littles in the double stroller, and Avaree walked, but at one point, I wore Brandt, pushed Avaree in the stroller, and held Felicity. Did I mention it was hot? :) We met up with some precious friends though, and that was awesome! On Mondays in June, the zoo opens an hour early just for members, and it's really nice to have that extra hour before it gets too hot for us! I stopped to feed Brandt on a bench in the shade after we looked at the snakes, turtles and fishies, and this little girl was excited to eat her watermelon for snack! Avaree had gone to the restroom with our friends, so it was just the three of us for a bit.
This girl can devour some watermelon. She LOVES it.
After a fun (and hot) morning at the zoo, we stopped for lunch with our friends in the shade!
Brandt was on me, but the rest of the kiddos were all at one table! We are so thankful for sweet friends to get to do life with! Although it was a hot and there may have been some whining, I'm so proud that we got there at 9am, enjoyed time at the zoo, and I packed all of our lunches! We even got home for naps! I considered it to be a very successful day! :) Not to mention, we got to see the new baby lion cubs! They were oh so precious! I can't wait to see them again!
After naps, we just lounged around the house and played! Everyone had their fill of the heat that day, so we just played on the floor the rest of the day!
Avaree was on the floor in front of us with my phone taking pictures! :)
Love that little Felicity photobomb in the back! :)
Sweet buddy was in the best mood! He loves to just wear his diaper!
Then, Felicity said, "I hold Bubba." It was too precious!
Look at his little smile!
That evening, I had dinner ready right when Daddy got home from work, and after eating and cleaning up, we headed up to the church to get our family's assignment for visitation! This was our first time to be a part of formal visitation, but it was a great experience for our family! We were pushing 7:30 when we got to our second house, so Brandt and Felicity were definitely wearing down, but it was really neat to share that experience with our kiddos. That night during family prayers, Avaree prayed for the families that we visited and asked God to bring them to church on Sunday. It was precious.
We had a little training meeting before going out to visit families, and brother took a little nap on Daddy! ;)
The next day (Tuesday), during rest time, Avaree read to brother and me! :)
I love this picture that Melvin Smith took and posted of Brandon and three of our favorite Seniors on Senior Sunday last week! Ashlyn, Mallory, and Bri were on praise team that morning!
Tuesday evening, G-Pops came by on his way back to Bryan! I had the kiddos bathed and ready for bed, so that they could just enjoy playing with him once he got there! They certainly enjoyed it, and didn't want him to leave. Felicity even asked for "Bop" when she woke up the next morning! :)
We took a silly picture to send to Gigi while she was in California!
On Wednesday morning, I took my three to the Levitt Pavillion in Arlington for the first of their Children's Summer Concert Series! We met several friends there, and we had a blast! Brandt ended up falling asleep in my lap!
I brought fruit and nut bars for snack, so the girls were happy! :)
After about 40 minutes of brother sleeping on me and the concert ending, I was brother down on our blanket, and he stayed asleep for a few more minutes. He woke up surrounded by our girls and their sweet friends in a little semi-circle staring at him! It was too precious! I should have gotten a picture of that! I'm sure this won't be the last time that he wakes up to girls looking at him in this family!
Sweet baby boy!
He's also super in love with his "Sophie" that my friend, Kylee, sent him! :) He smiles every time he sees his Sophie, and he eats her in every way possible!
On Thursday, we went for another walk! Clearly, the littles were thrilled! ha!
There's a sweet face!
After our walk, Avaree got her world map out, and she wanted to talk about all the places that I had visited, she had visited, and "Where in the world is Gigi?" :) It was hot, be we stayed out about an hour in the shade! Avaree loves riding her bike, too!
The sky was just absolutely gorgeous. It reminded me of one of my favorite e.e. cummings poems.
"thank you God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky…" --e.e. cummings
…and little sister got some advice on riding a "big girl bike!" Look at that smile! :)
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