This was downhill so she was really just coasting here

We got this back a little while back from a friend.  It wasn't exactly working correctly so Todd took it to a bicycle store to fix it up and they fixed the main problem but made another thing not work.  So the bike has been sitting in our house instead of being used.  Oh well maybe for her birthday we'll buy her a new one. 
The boys were very encouraging to Ev as she attempted to pedal.  Something was wrong with the chain and it made the bike not really go anywhere but the boys kept telling Ev, "Good job Ev, you can do it!" Priceless.

Vacation

The kids and I flew to another city to meet Todd as he was coming back into the country.  We stayed in our friend's apartment and enjoyed good food, being able to sleep in and some fun things around town along with being reunited as a family. This city has an amusement park/water park so we went with some friends our first time and then we thought it was worth going back again so we did a few days later.  The kids loved the rides and since the city is pretty hot they had fun things like snow cones and water fountains to play in on top of the water park/ wave pool/ water slide area.  The first time we stayed at the park past 7pm and we wore the kids out.  I didn't take very  many pictures while we were on vacation but this is one of the few I did get.  All of the little boys crashed when we ate dinner at the Mc Donalds in the park.  We really enjoyed having a break from our normal routine to hang out in another city and enjoy good food.  When we came back home it was about a 30 degree difference from the steaming hot humid weather to 60 degree dry weather.  My kids immediately put on their long sleeve shirts!  Looks like summer weather is over here.   Even though the kids were able to go swimming, go to the amusement park, go to an indoor playground, go to a toy store, eat lots of good food including ice cream when we asked them what their favorite part was they said it was having daddy with us. 

First Day of School

We had originally planed to start school a few weeks from now but since daddy is gone for a while we decided to bump up the start of school to give us all something to schedule our days. 
The kids were so excited that they immediately came into my room this morning after they woke up asking when we were starting school.  It is very fun to teach them when they want to learn so badly. 

Zoo Pictures

 It looks funny seeing people in a moving cage... but hey that's how we get to see the animals up close!

 We just had to bring Ayi along with us!

Todd is going on a trip for 10 days so we've been trying to take advantage of the warm weather so yesterday we took the kids to a large park that has a lot of things to do including roller coasters and the circus is in town.  Our kids love the rides and so we spent about and hour doing that and then enjoyed our first circus.  The kids had a blast.

Then today we went to the zoo!  Hobs has been talking about the zoo for weeks and wasn't disappointed.  Our zoo has this part where you get into a van that has bars on the windows and drive into the areas that have lions, tigers and bears.  Today as we drove up a black bear got of a water area and stood there just inches away from me in the van.  He sat there and literally smiled at us for a long time.

 The kids love this ride.  If you shoot the animals they will make noise, move or shoot water. 

 As I was taking pictures everyone was telling each other to look at the foreigner !

 There are some crazy fun rides but we stick to the kid ones :)

Sleep Over