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!!!

Boo Bash Spooktacular!!!!!

Our Boo Bash was a huge success!!!

the momstown Barrie mamas sure know how to have fun, and they sure have some of the cutest tots around!!!



While I am not personally a fan of Halloween, I always look forward to our Boo Bash! The only fun part of Halloween to me is seeing the kids have fun!



It was so cute to see all the kids in their costumes! They were having so much fun running around and it was so cute to see what they were all dressed as!

We had a dragon, lady bug, dog, mermaid, Dora, some tigers, a sweet little witch, an adorable pupkin, princesses, pirates, a wee little cow and so much more!


They were all so cute and so excited to be celebrating Halloween!
The kids enjoyed making crafts, dancing and just playing with each other!



As usual we have an awesome pot luck lunch with such a variety of delicious dishes!



Thanks to all the moms and dads that brought their little goblins out for a great morning of FUN!!!

momstown and Wendy's Celebrate Halloween!

Halloween is just around the corner, only 3 more sleeps!

We have been spending the week celebrating all the fun that comes with Halloween!



Today Wendy's hosted a Fun morning in their Bryne Dr. restaurant. The turnout was fantastic!

Moms and kiddies were all dressed up for to celebrate. There were crafts and balloons and free frosty's for everyone!



The kids had a ball running around in the cosutmes and playing together.

We had many new moms from the area come out to see what fun all of us at momstown have!

Pumpkin Play Date!

This weeks play date was all about pumpkins!!

The kids are so excited about halloween as many of them actually understand it this year for the first time!

We decided to do an easy but fun craft, mosaic pumpkins!!



The kiddies got a paper plate, a piece of orange construction paper and 2 eyes and a mouth made from black construction paper.

First step, rip the paper into small pieces! The kids thought this was great that they actually got to rip up the paper!



Next step, glue the orange pieces on the plate! Another favorite for the kids... GLUE! Kids just love glue for some odd reason!

Once their plates were covered in orange they were able to add on their eyes and mouth and VOILA! A pumpkin!!!



A great pumpkin story read by my oldest (it was a PA day!) and then some songs and dancing and it was a perfect morning!

Stll to come this week as we celebrate all the fun of halloween, Decorating Dudes and Divas, momstown Halloween Fun Day at Wendy's and of course.... our BOO BASH!!!!!!!

OOEEY GOOEY PUMPKINS!

We had our very first Mini Chefs group and it was so much fun!

With our first group taking place so close to Halloween it was only fitting do a Halloween recipe!

We had a week full of rain and cold weather and getting ooey gooey sticky while having fun was just what we all needed!

I chose Ooeey Gooeey Pumpkins after seeing what fun the momstown Oakville moms had with their moms and kiddies doing this same recipe.

Everyone loves Rice Krispie Treats, so we used this as the base to make our pumpkins! The kids helped stir up the GOO and count in the cups of rice krispies.

We scooped out big gobs of treat and the kids got down the making them into balls for the pumpkins!


Wih some bits and bites and candies, the kids got down to making their pumpkin faces!

It was so fun to watch them all so sticky and messy and sneaking nibbles and eating their candies!

I have to admit this was a great one to do just for the clean up, who doesn't love licking the bowl after making rice krispie treats!


I am looking forward to all the Halloween fun still come this week!