A birthday memory....

with a super special 3 year old cousin. as our dear family prepares to leave, i am trying to hold on to as many sweet memories as i can. it was going to be barron's bday and i wanted to do something special that all 3 buddies would remember. nate and i picked up the bear and headed to the mall with all 3. i did not give any of them details before hand so that everyone would be surprised!

after a very healthy pizza dinner, nate took the boys down to the candy store. everyone got to pick their own small bag to carry around for the night. the pizza lady had given us balloons on sticks, but thankfully by this point we had lost them!!
down for a little playground time! oh unless you are the lankfords and really all that means is wrestle mania time... yikes! the boys ran from point a to point b all throughout the mall. i just shook my head and thought people don't judge me, this is not exactly physically possible. they are not ALL mine!

the biggest treat was the "small fry" guys that we purchased. my hope is that barron's little guy makes the trip with him and we can all skype about our little furry friends. the little boys both picked frogs, while cy took home a little bear.

here we are giving them baths.

lots of cheesing going on from the boys and their 3 friends, all named "fheodore (or theodore?)"

we had a blast celebrating our special buddy, bear! we will miss them, but can't wait to see what the Lord has in story for that crew!!!