This afternoon, we headed just down the street to
Savoy Orchard Days. It’s a small little festival that’s held at a park just blocks from our house. Owen hadn’t been big enough in the past to even try it out, but I thought this year might be the year he’d enjoy some rides. We talked it up and he couldn’t wait to ride! Well that was until he actually got on.
Not a second after I took this picture, he started to scream that he wanted off. Luckily the kind lady at the front gave us our tickets back and Owen was spared from going around in a slow circle.
Ellie, on the other hand, could not wait to get on a small ride. The ride “engineer” would only let her if she was strapped in with another kid. Ok, whatever. She loved it and went on it twice!
After we gave away the rest of our ride tickets, we decided to visit a booth of a friend from church. Joy does amazing face painting! Her business is called the Joy of Facepainting. I’m not just talking about a rainbow or smiley face, but works on art on people’s faces. Check out her blog
here.
We knew she’d have to be fast with Ellie, so she did some quick little ladybugs. Ellie just kept touching and looking at her arm.
Owen had just won a car playing a game. Joy simply looked at the car and recreated it on his arm (he didn’t want it on his face).
Owen loved it. We went to BW3’s afterwards to visit a friend who was serving that night. He kept his hand on the table to keep looking at it and refused to wash it off during bath.
Even though the rides were a bust, it was a fun family afternoon!
They spend the first 5-10 minutes singing a welcome song and things like that. Then they practice the ukulele with Mr. Luke. This includes things like learning the string names, how to hold the ukulele, how to pluck the right string, etc.
Then, they get to do piano with Ms. Danielle. Basic key recognition, learning soft and quiet, very simple songs, etc.
I will say that I’m not sure the instructors have had a ton of experience teaching small children and there’s been at least one child with some behavior issues in both of his sessions. And the price is a little steep. Buuuuttt the child loves it and refuses to try anything else. So we’re going to keep going for awhile. Now if I could just get him to practice. ;)
At the first table, they poured what looked like salt into a cup. Owen got to dump in water and it turned into “snow.” They go to play with it in pans and bury animals and such. Then, we build snowman (Olafs) with glitter playdoh.
We cut out some snowflakes and hung them up on the little stage area. Of course, we had to belt out some Frozen tunes while on the stage!
They were so awesome that when Owen asked for a treat while we were leaving, I had to oblige. :)
It was a fun way to ruin our dinner. :)
We ran into Jeff, Holly, Keira, Caden, and their new sister Zoey! It was fun to quickly catch up on birth stories. Ellie and Owen were quite independent as we walked around the farm.
These 3 kiddos are mine. Whoa.
There was a snow cone truck parked close to the entrance and I’m a sucker for nostalgic thing like ice cream trucks, even when cups of ice are $3 a piece. Ellie was SO excited to get her cup. 
We had fun just sitting and letting these two be goofy! All in all, a great first family outing!
While they were projects I totally could have done at home, it was so nice to have a bunch ready to go. And the mess stayed there while we just went home! Totally worth the small cost for the class. It was a fun thing to do just the 3 of us before baby comes!
Yes, I was a little nervous as these two looked over the (very open) area watching three buses being fixed.
He did a good job showing the kids the size of things in our cars versus the size of them on the bus.
Owen’s favorite part (aside from the little red piggy bank with the MTD logo he got. yes, a strange thing to put a bus logo on) was getting to have a short ride on the bus. They took us to where they fill up with gas and then we got to go through the bus car wash. Ellie was quite nervous but survived! Overall, a really fun morning!
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