Are you a horse?

This month we spent some time enjoying the Wild West! It was a fun theme and the kids enjoyed it!

This month at our Tales for Tots event we read a great book that just perfect for our Wild West theme. The pictures were bright and detailed and the story was fun!


The book we read, sponsored by our wonderful literacy partner Scholastic Canada, was called Are You A Horse by Andy Rash.

This was a fun story that the kids really enjoyed!

As Roy the Cowboy tries to figure out what a horse is so he can use his new saddle, the kids giggled at all the things he came across and thought was a horse!

As with all our Tales for Tots events, one of our lucky moms got to take home a copy of the book!

You can check out more great Wild West themed books and some crafts to go with them on our momstown Arts and Crafts Blog!

Next month, we will enjoy another great book, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree, 12 days of Christmas the Canadian way!

Is your Christmas Tree up yet?

We did it! Our Christmas tree is finally up!

Some people might think we are nuts to have our tree up a full month before Christmas, but I couldn't wait! Every year it seems to get earlier and earlier. This is my all time favorite holiday and anything I can do to extend the life of it is ok by me!

I happen to know quite a few people that had their trees up and decorated long before I did. Many use the local Santa Claus parade as the marker for when they decorate for the season. I just pick a date that the family is all together with nothing to do but be together and decorate the house and put the tree up.


As soon as we open the boxes of treasures the house starts to feel different. It's like a festive peace falls on the house and everyone just is much happier and calmer (ok it doesn't last long, but still).

The excitement surround the tree decorating grows as we uncovering the special ornaments from years past, and following tradition I give my kids their new ornaments for this year. They all pick a special place on the tree for their ornaments to go and watching their little faces light up as the tree transforms bring me such joy.

So now I feel like the festive season has officially begun!

Coming up over the next few weeks momstown has a load of great events to celebrate the season! The Annual Cookie Exchange, tons of holiday crafts, or Annual Christmas Party and trip to the Santa Express, and so much more!

Happy Holidays!!!!

Pickles visits momstown!

We had a special guest this week at our Connect the Tots Playgroup!


Pickles the Clown came by to see the children and sure was a fun morning!!

The kids were so excited to see Pickles and eagerly sat listening to her story of how she became Pickles the Clown!


Magic always gets the attention of kids and Pickles was sure to deliver some magic and get the kids involved! They had so much fun helping Pickles make colour appear and forms change shape!




From magic we moved on to singing, a favorite our of our tots! They love to sing and dance!


To top off her visit, Pickles thrilled the kids with glitter tatoos! This kids loved them! They lined up patiently, something so hard for a preschooler to do, and waited their turn to pick their tattoo and be glitterfied! Frogs and flowers and unicorns, the kids loved them!

Thank you so much to Pickles for coming in to entertain our tots!!

It's Parade Season!!

It's that wonderful time of year already! The stores are starting to fill up with Christmas items, the malls are bringing out the Christmas trees and the Santa villages, houses are starting to light up with Christmas lights and every town is getting ready for their Santa Claus parades.

Santa Claus Parades are the pivotal point in this season when kids actually get excited. They see the big man in the red suit with and the excitement kicks in.
The bands, the clowns, the bright floats with their Christmas music and cheerful float riders are always so thrilling. No matter how many parades you go to, you still get excited, even as an adult!

My kids don't get to watch very many parades as they are in so many because of their baton club. But I tell ya, they still get so excited to be a part of the fun!

This weekend is the first of 4 parades that my girls will be in. Barrie will be celebrating their Santa Claus Parade this weekend as well, Saturday November 19th, at 5pm.


Some parades taking place this month....
Newmarket,Bradford and Barrie - Saturday Nov. 19
Orilia and Toronto Sunday Nov. 20
Innisfil - Sunday Nov. 27

HO HO HO!!!!

The Wild, Wild West!

This month is all about the wild west. A super fun theme for the kiddies as they will get to dress up, get crafty and have a good ol' momstown good time!

Today we did our first Western themed craft. Our little momstown Sheriffs bade their own star badges.

After a good romp with friends in the toy room, the kiddies came to the craft table to make their Sheriff Stars.

They cleverly figured out how to turn 2 triangles into a star. They glued them together and then added their name.

Then the fun came. They started to decorate. Pom poms made a good addition to our stars. Some of the kids just put the fluffy balls on the points and some of them covered the stars in full. Kids love glue, what can I say!

This week coming is more momstown fun! movies for mommies, trikes and mittens, soup swap and so much more!

November already!

I have been in denial about the fact that it is November already.

While I was more than happy to have Halloween over and done with it, I am not ready for it to be November.

The year has flown by with immense speed. Christmas is countable in a number of days that is not to insane to say out loud, the snow is coming (don't shoot the messenger!) and a new year will be upon us in no time.

I am not one to rush time by, but just saying.


This month we avoid all things that November means and here with momstown we will be celebrating the Wild West!

Cowboys and Cowgirls will enjoy some western crafts, stories and good ol' foot stompin fun!

This month we have some awesome fun in store! pizza making, decorating dudes and divas, mini chefs, tales for tots and so much more!!! Don't miss out! visit us today!!!