Mimi comes to Dallas!

Mimi came to visit us this week. It really goes without saying that we all had a wonderful time! I think the girls' very favorite part was having Mimi read them lots and lots of books!

But we did go on some adventures too. Here is a little recap.

Our first stop was lunch at the American Girl's Bistro. This is something I have been wanting to do with the girls for a long time. You get to bring your baby doll and they have high chairs for the dolls and little menus.

Here is Stella telling Stephen all about what we were up too. You can see her baby Sadie looking over the menu.

Rayna loved that her baby was in a high chair next to her. She kept telling us "baby high-chair!"

Here she is giving her doll a bite of her cookie. Check out that tongue!

Later Mimi and Stella made cookies. Mimi brought lots of things that start with the letter "D". She has been doing that for a while now. Usually she will send them a package full of little toys and things with a certain letter. But this time she got to deliver it in person. Here they are making Dinosaur and Duck cookies.

Here are Mimi and Stella doing the Hokey-Pokey. The girls had fun dancing and playing the song over and over again.

While I was upstairs Mimi and the girls set up this beautiful tea party place setting for my birthday party.

We had to make a stop at the grocery store and I had my camera in my purse. I was excited to get a picture of the girls with these little shopping carts that they love. The store was pretty empty so it was a great time to "take over" with the girls and their carts.

On Tuesday we went to the Arboretum for the first time. It was a rainy day but we still had a great time. The tulips and lots of other flowers were all blooming and were just beautiful.

They also had lots of little story book themed playhouses or structures. We had a great time reading about the stories and going into each one.

These Toad fountains were really fun. The girls loved that they could go under the water and not get wet!

Here the girls are helping Mimi make a birthday cake for me.

I love how seriously they took it. But tasting everything was the most important part, of course!

Stella helping me blow out the candle!

On Wednesday we went to the Dallas Children's museum. The girls had a great time showing Mimi all of the fun things to do there. Here they are gathering eggs from the chickens. I didn't get many pictures here because they were running too fast from one thing to the next. They all came out blurry. And the pictures weren't nearly as good in general at all of our events with Mimi because our professional photographer (aka Stephen) was at work!

We loved having Mimi with us so much. We had hardly pulled away from the airport and Stella said, "I miss Mimi already!"

We do miss her already but we are so glad she came!

Thanks for being so good to us. We love you Mimi!