California Vacation: Saturday Morning

I woke up earlier than anyone else on Saturday morning and wandered downstairs. The backyard was already bathed in sunlight so I brought my Bible and prayer journal out there and was able to spend a very peaceful half hour reading and praying.

After that the kids woke up and the wondrous chaos of double family life ensued.

Here's Alex, still trying to wake up.



In the morning Hannah was gone for a while teaching, so Sarah and Jeremy and I took the kids down to the campus center again to visit the farmers market and to play amongst the trees and frolic in the grass.



On a side note, Alex has become obsessed with doors recently. He either desperately wants to open them if they're closed or he feels like he has to close them, especially if we'd like to leave them open. Here he is trying to open some office doors near the campus center.



Watching the kids play reminded me of Alex's uncle Tom's childhood ways. As a toddler Tom used to like nothing better than the attention of a young lady. When we used to camp together as family he would go missing sometimes on his tricycle, but we always knew we could find him at the site with a teenage girl. There weren't any teenagers at the play area but Alex was pretty happy playing with all the little girls, and some of them who were a few years older than him seemed to think he was the cutest thing ever. He really didn't have much of a choice on whether to play with girls or boys I guess, since the ratio was about 10 to 1.



As we were playing uncle Tom himself was beginning his drive from Phoenix, Arizona to see us.