American Girl

Adelynn and I went to American Girl for tea time yesterday. Last January she got a catalog in the mail and it is now in the rotation of her favorite magazines. Then a couple of weeks ago she saw an episode of Jon & Kate plus 8 where the 2 big sisters go to the American Girl store for their birthday.

She has been asking when does she get to go, KiKi and I thought it would be a great summer time activity. 

KiKi was sick so Aunt Catherine came to have tea with us.

Addie doesn't have a doll yet, mommy doesn't think she's old enough. We talked before we went about how I think 6 is a good age to get such an expensive special doll. 

When we got to tea we found out that they had loaner dolls.

 Addie took time and picked out the perfect doll and named her Cindy.

We got finger sandwiches, fruit, cakeballs, and cupcakes

 Aunt Catherine & Adelynn

After tea we went down stairs to play explore all the dolls.

Addie and I had a fun day and we can't wait to go again with KiKi and Grandma!

Yes I dressed myself!

Big Sister Help

Adelynn is always wanting to help with Claire. 

She really likes changing diapers, and I really like letting her :)

Asher wants to help but he's not big enough yet!

All done and happy.

Main Street Park

I didn't make a bucket list for the summer but if I had finding new parks would be #1 on it. We ventured out of our comfort zone of Lake Highland/Highland Parks and found Main Street Park in Downtown Dallas.

It is a newer park that I found on the Dallas Mom Blog (which has a great list that I can't wait to try)

Before we went I checked out the website for the park and it looked AMAZING!

When we got there the park didn't seem as big as it appeared on the website and not as cool.  

The kids area was so much smaller and didn't really have much for the kids to play with. We didn't turn around and head to another park for 2 reasons:

1) We were meeting friends

2) They had a really cool fountain that the kids were going to get to play in, when it turned on.

The kids found these cup or upside down plunger things. They spin and the kids loved them. When you get off the kids were just little dizzy ;)

On the left of this picture you see a gated area/ dog park.

The toys were very modern but the kids had fun exploring.

Since the fountains weren't on and the playground was a little lacking the kids decided running up and down the hills was as much fun as the play area!

The day was little warm so the kids camped out under the climbing wall for snacks.

Finally!!! The fountain was turned on.

We had a good time playing in the water and we'll return as soon as Rusty Taco's opens!

Spray ground

We've been having fun playing in the water.

More of Asher's Birthday

On Asher's birthday he woke up to a decorate door.

And he loved it!

We headed to Krispy Kreme for a special birthday breakfast. 

Do-dad and KiKi came to help us celebrate.

We had a little celebration at the lake also.

Asher got a new chair

Aunt Camille, Uncle David, Aunt Maci, & Uncle Luke gave the best gift....

Children's Aquarium

 Addie went to VBS at CCDC and Asher, Claire and I headed to the Children's Aquarium to hang with Jessica and Caedmon. 

Jessica and I talked about how Caedmon and Asher will be friends not because of common interest but because their mommies told them they have to be friends....

and we all mommy says friends are the best!

Asher watching the shark!

Touching a sting ray! What fun!

"Check out my abs!"

Side note- It was crazy hair day at Adelynn's VBS and Asher wanted his hair crazy too!