Fun with Eva and Josh

Over the past 2 days, we have had the chance to share some fun new adventures with our friends Eva (my mommy friend) and Josh (Eli's friend).  We have been to the fire station, to a butterfly festival, to a fun new playground, and to chick-fil-a for lunch and an ice cream cone!  Here are some pictures of our fun times below.  We love having such great friends to explore with...thank for all of the fun times Eva and Josh!!

 

Fire Station

 

All ready to go to the fire station.  While he is not exactly showing his excitement in this picture, Eli was super super excited about going!  He wore his fire truck shirt and would not think of going without his fireman boots. :)  He brought his fireman jacket too, but thankfully since it was over 100 degrees he agreed to let me carry the jacket.

Eli and Josh arriving at the station

This .Is. Awesome!!

"Hmm, I wonder what all those parts do?"

 

The fireman explaining the various hoses to Elijah while he listens intently

Checking out the hoses

Eli's favorite question while there (and all the time really) was "What's that?"

The wheel was taller than Eli :)

The boys loved playing with the horn (although they didn't actually beep the horn or it would have been LOUD).

The boys had a great time at the station!  The firemen were so nice to show the kids around and were so gracious to visit with us and let the boys play for about an hour.  They got to "drive" the truck, turn on the lights, check out all of the hoses and parts of the firetruck, look at the ambulance, and even got stickers and coloring books from the firemen!  It was a fun time and we will definitely go back to visit again.  I am thankful that we have great people protecting our city who are also so sweet to love on our kids!

 

Hosing Off at Home

 

Later in the day after watering my plants, Eli decided to water himself as well!  A good way to cool off with the warmer temps.

 

Sooo much fun!

Butterfly Festival

 

Today we met up with Eva and Josh again and went to a butterfly festival in Southlake.  It was really neat!  The gave us these sticks with watermelon clipped to it to attract the butterflies.  It was fun "fishing" for butterflies!

Caught one!

There were tons of flowers with big beautiful butterflies everywhere

Cheesing it up at the Butterfly Festival :)

The Monarchs...I present to you the King and Queen

After the butterflies, the boys (and especially the moms) were ready for a little AC.  We went to Gateway Church and played at their indoor play area which was a lot of fun.  The boys climbed and ran around to their hearts delight.  Here they are riding the fire truck ride together, reminiscing about their trip to the fire station the day before.

After all that playing, a boy can work up a good appetite!  We got free lunch coupons from the butterfly festival, so we went and redeemed our coupons.  Lunch was even topped off by a delicious ice cream cone!  What a great day!

 

Boots!

 

While these next two pics have nothing to do with the post, I thought I'd just attach them here.  I bought Eli these cute little Woody boots (from Toy Story).  The are slippers and I think they are just adorable.  I love the shirt, diaper, boots look!

My little cutie!