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Birthday Weekend Wrap-Up

We had a fun-filled weekend celebrating S&Z's birthday with friends. We headed over to see Wendy, Sydney & Ivy after nap on Friday afternoon. Unfortunately Wendy & I usually have our hands full with two sets of twins so we didn't get any pictures this time. They gave us 5 awesome Thomas trains to add to our growing collection of "choo-choo's", as well as a Thomas counting and numbers book, and a coloring book. Many thanks to our friends for the awesome gifts!

Timery and Jason came down from Ipswich for lunch today.


They gave us a Play-Doh Meal Makin' Kitchen set!!!


Considering Silas' love of all things cooking-related, and both kids' love of play-doh, this will provide hours of fun this fall and winter!!!

We waited to open our present from Auntie Tracy, Uncle Brock & Brynn until Timery's visit today (Timery and Tracy are sisters). 


It's a Step 2 Easel for Two!!! One side is a chalkboard and one side is a whiteboard (which is also magnetic and comes with foam letters and numbers).


We have already played with it a bunch today! 


We're using sidewalk chalk on the chalkboard side, and we walked over to Staples after nap to buy washable dry erase markers. We also found an eraser that works on both types of surfaces. 


While I cleaned up from dinner, they happily colored on paper that can be hung from the little clips. They also LOVE all the foam letters, and the fact that you can store stuff in between the two sides.


We're in the process of gathering up painting supplies, so it's going to get some bang-up use for painting too!

In addition to our fun play dates, I had a wonderful dinner last night with Teresa (mom to Josie & Theo) at PF Chang. All in all, it was a weekend filled with fun for everyone! Thanks again to all my friends for helping us make Silas and Zoe's 2nd birthday so memorable!!!
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