Time With Brooklyn

My mom took Laneah to St Louis for 10 days. I know Laneah enjoyed her one on one time with Nana and Papa and being spoiled every second. Brooklyn also enjoyed her alone time with mommy and daddy. I took Brooklyn to the grand opening of the new mall food court area with the aquariums in it. The craft was so cute. One of the new food places that opened was Squistos Pizza, so the craft was a cardboard pizza to color, a pizza box, and a chef's hat. 

Then we stood in the long line for the face paint lady. While we were in line, the kids could go to a special touch tank where they had pulled out star fish and other sea creatures that the kids could hold and feel. Brooklyn is touching the chocolate chip sea star. 

Brooklyn asked to be a princess, of course. 

By the time we finished with the face painting, the concert was over. They had free pizza, and even pizza dough for the kids to play with. They had a photo booth set up and a table full of props for people to use (all free) so Brooklyn and I took a few pictures; I will have to scan those in later. After we got our pictures, I wanted to do something special for Brooklyn. We always go into Build-a-Bear and I let the girls look around, but we don't get anything. Laneah got one when she was three so I figured Brooklyn was ready for hers. No surprise, she picked the pink princess bear. She had so much fun going though all the motions of putting her bear together. 

She added a strawberry scent to the bear and so she named her Princess Strawberry. 

After the bear, we played in the play area for a little while and then Brooklyn got a strawberry frozen yogurt with pink bubbles and a gummy worm and then it was time to go home. 

Later that day when I was cleaning up I heard Brooklyn playing. She was being so cute and creative and then she yelled "I fly to the moon! One, two, fwee, blast off! Zoom, zoom, zoom!" I went to have a little peak and she had gotten inside her Build-A-Bear box and was pretending it was a rocket ship. Adorable. The small moments like that are what I treasure about motherhood. 

Brooklyn and I had a lot of fun being together. Our last day before Laneah came home, Jason got off work early and we went to Watkins Park. It was a gorgeous day. We started off playing at the huge play ground. It was pretty crowded, but luckily there is a lot of space. 

 Jason is such a good dad. 

After playing for a while, we hopped on the train. 

I was sitting in the seat in front of them so my head looks huge, lol. 

On the train ride, we saw a beautiful deer so close to the train that we could have reached out and touched it. Brooklyn was so excited and she kept yelling "Look! Bambi!" The deer was not bothered by our presence and didn't even flinch. He was still there on our return trip, but a little further out. We took the short walk to the animal farm and saw bunnies, peacocks, ducks, chickens, pigs and more. 

This Llama was hilarious. He was chomping down on this metal bar. 

And the last thing we did was ride the carousel. Brooklyn has loved this ride since she was a baby.  

It was a fun day at the park and it was great spending it with Jason and Brooklyn.