Busy Day!

Today has been one of the best in a long time. I told Monkey last night that we were going to go purchase a book or two with her money from Aunt Shannah. She was SO excited. What I didn't tell her was that Dora was going to be at the mall as well! I had been looking forward to today all week long!
On the way to Barnes & Noble, we talked about how many books we were going to get. Chloe told me she was only going to get one book today. I was totally okay with that, although I knew the selecting process would take longer. It was okay though because we had two hours to just have fun.

Taking in all the books

Starting the selection process

She had a HARD time deciding between these two

After we settled on a book (the musical one), she was ready to go play. We still had an hour before Dora was coming so I took her to the play area of Oak Park Mall. Monkey was cracking me up with her sitting on the car and waving to me like a princess. She had lots of kids wanting to talk to her and that was causing her to shut down a bit though.

After playing for quite awhile, we went to wait on Dora. She was SO excited that she talked about it non-stop. Well, that was until Dora came out. It was great while Dora was in the distance ... as she neared, and her size grew .... Monkey was a little more than intimidated. She did let me get her picture taken with Dora ... as long as I held her!

After coming home, we got everybody ready to go and then headed to the church. It was the day Bullfrog was being baptized. He wanted it done when he was 8, but he wasn't home on his birthday. We waited until he was home and we got back into a routine. Then he had to go through the missionary discussions since he was over 8 years old. It was nice having them over weekly. One of the missionaries got transferred to the Independence stake, but he came back for the baptism (which was awesome).

Many of the family members were able to make it! <3

Bullfrog was bummed because he was told to be serious

Missionaries on the left are our current ones, and the one on the right came back

The day was just overwhelming for our Monkey ... she collapsed in the car on the drive home ... and then again on daddy's lap after dinner & ice cream.

With the Minnie Mouse hat MeMa made for her birthday

So ... how did you spend your Saturday?