Patriot Days

As part of the lead up to Canada Day, towns across Nova Scotia (maybe Canada...Canadian friends help me out...do they have this in other places too??) have Patriot Days, or called Privateer Days, or called Bedford days...you get the idea. In our town, we have Patriot Days which hosts several little events throughout the community - one of the first being the Family Fun Fair.

Navarre has been talking about last year's FFF off and on since last year. She was only 2, about to turn 3, then but she recalls it vividly. How she scared of the Shrek character. How she didn't like the bouncy castly because Shrek scared her. How the cow character from the local dairy gave her a balloon and made it all better. So, we were hoping this year's FFF lived up to all she remembered.

Well, she got her face painted again, which was a bonus. She played little games that won her prizes, and she jumped in several bouncy castles, including a bouncy castle maze. She got balloons and very happy with this year's FFF. She's talking about next year's FFF already. And, to make it interesting and quite comical, we offered to take our friends' little boy, Carter, with us because they were moving! So, picture Jamie and I wrangling up Navarre, almost 4 years old, Jay, just turned 1 year old, and Carter, almost 2 years old. It was quite the site :)

And then we had fun in the laundry basket. For some reason Navarre likes to pretend she's either dirty laundry or a piece of fluff. I don't know. She's strange.