We're leaving and ....A trip to the libary and home again

We are in the busy season of getting ready to travel to the US for 2 months.  We leave on Tuesday....and Jonathan is very excited to ride on the big airplane!
I have aspirations of keeping this blog active during our travels....but it may become inert if circumstances prevent me from  posting.

In the meantime, I have these photos from our walk to school last week that I uploaded but never posted.  Enjoy!

Now that Jonathan is a stronger, more obedient walker, I'm starting to venture out of the house more with both boys.  

So we packed Joshua in the stroller and put a harness on Jonathan for safety and off to school we went for a  visit to the elementary library.

We are SO thankful we have access to this library at school!  We check out about 10 books a week, and it's a treat for all of us, especially on the first day when the books are still fresh!

Ode to the library:
Lord, I am so grateful you have given us access to this library!
I have always loved a library and feel a sense of peace upon entering,
and what would we do without a fresh supply of books each week
to feed the eager and hungry mind of my Jonathan (and myself)!
What a wonderful combination of classics (Babar, Curious George, Clifford)
and character builders (a wondrous collection of Christian classics and newer stories).
Thank you Lord for our library!  I know by the time we are done 
we will have checked out and returned our favorites dozens of times!

P.S.  A few of our favorites so far are Go, Dog,  Go (by Eastman) and A Steam Train Journey (by Puck Scarry) and Inside, Outside, Upside Down (by Berenstein)

We left the library a few minutes ago.  As we round the corner by the high school building, Jonathan decides it's time for his first sit down break and a drink.

We're off campus now and stopped at the corner store for a little box of milk to keep our strength up.  Jonathan has a coin in his pocket he's been keeping very carefully ....time to use it for a ride on the toy train!

We've climbed up a BIG hill and are now walking by the "soccer field."  Time to pause for a moment and watch the chickens pecking in a grove of trees.

In my "critter" post not too long ago, I said I could never photo a butterfly, but lo and behold, here is a beauty we saw on our walk and my camera captured his flutterings!

So, these images are just a glimpse of what we see on our short walk between campus and home ....I didn't get photos of the large house being built on the corner (complete with cement mixer), the neighborhood lady who gave me a bunch a orchids, the banana tree garden being cultivated, the discarded paper kite that Jonathan carried for half of the way,  and the security guards greeting Jonathan at the front gate of the school.  We never know what or who we will see, but with a baby and toddler along, we are forced to slow down and enjoy all of the details!