My feet have barely hit the ground the past few days as we've been merrily moving from one fun activity to the next. I do so love this time of year, Halloween, birthdays, parties galore. Never a dull moment around here!
Friday morning Sydney and I met up with her buddy from preschool, Levi, and his Dad and brother Max at the Richmond Country Farms to visit their pumpkin patch.
I remember coming here years ago when my nephews were just little guys so it was so neat to return years later with my own daughter and re-live the memories!
The patch was decked out with all sorts of fun things, characters, tractors, singers and people in costume. We went on a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch and sang songs the whole way. The kids really enjoyed taking it all in.
Sydney chose the hugest pumpkin she could possibly find to take home, I swear it weighs more than she does! I barely made it back to the car with it, it was so heavy!
We left the pumpkin patch and, after a quick wardrobe change, headed straight to Danny and Heidi's house for the bris of Jonathan and Lauren's new son Jacob Henry who was born a week ago.
What a lovely time we had together celebrating the baby's birth and catching up with everyone. As the guests left, we were given a Hershey's milk chocolate bar that had been covered in a custom wrapped cover that read "Here He Is" and had all the baby's stats on the back, so cute!
Friday evening after I had put Syd to bed I met up with the Dunbar Moms at Sally's house to help decorate for the Halloween party that we were throwing on Saturday. We cracked a few bottles of wine, relaxed and chatted and sometime well after midnight decided to start putting up some decorations! Was such a nice time together!
The Halloween party on Saturday was such fun. Sydney decided to wear her butterfly princess costume from Purim last year, it was pretty sweet!
Once again this year, everyone brought the most fun and amazing themed food!
And the kids got awesome stuffed loot bags to take home.
The kids played while we ate and chatted and then we all headed up the street to Dunbar for the annual trick-or-treating at the local businesses.
Sydney was like a mad woman running from store to store eager to fill up her bucket with candy. She would go into each store and come running out exclaiming "Daddy, look I got a Kit Kat!", loudly announcing each new acquisition to her bucket. We had been practicing her saying "Trick-or-Treat" for a while and she was great at using it! Such fun!
Sunday afternoon brought Sydney's long anticipated Splatter Paint Party at the 4 Cats art studio in Kerrisdale. We invited her entire preschool class to join her in celebrating.
The kids each got to make their own splatter painting and then help work on a giant canvas for Sydney to take home.
They filled syringes with paint and squirted them onto the canvas, then popped balloons filled with paint over top for the final touch.
In the end we had an amazing masterpiece!
Sydney was so thrilled to have all of her preschool buddies there to celebrate. When we got home with our heaping pile of birthday gifts we sat on the living room floor and opened them up one by one.
She got some amazing things! We were so so spoiled and blessed to have such wonderful families in her preschool.
What a wonderful few days, so many celebrations, we are joyful!
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