Today is Sydney's buddy, William's, 2nd birthday. His Mom is planning a huge birthday bash for this weekend, but because his actual birthday fell on Easter Monday and all of us were free, she arranged a special little outing for William and his friends this morning to visit our local fire station in Kerrisdale.
The kids were ecstatic! Two very lovely (and very handsome, I might add!) firefighters, opened the giant garage door to unveil two shiny red fire trucks that the kids could climb right into. Sydney boldly let one of the firemen lift her up into the captain's seat and sat perched there for quite some time taking it all in. Then she jumped in the back of the engine with some of her buddies and tried on one of the giant, heavy helmets that the firemen wear.
The firemen gave each of the kids their own little red plastic firefighter's helmet that read "Junior Fire Chief." It was so adorable watching them all wander around the fire hall in their little hats. We tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to sit all the kids on the front bumper of the fire engine for a photo, but managed to get so many cute pictures of them all lined up together outside of the fire station after the tour was over.
What a great way to spend the morning! Sydney left with a colouring book and stickers, along with her coveted red hat and spent the better part of the morning talking about the visit. It was such a fun way to spend a morning with friends!
Check out this cake that William's Mom made for him for when he got home from the fire station today, amazing!
This afternoon we drove out to Burnaby to meet up with my sister and her family for lunch at Red Robin. My sister, who has two boys, can always be counted on to get the best girly-girl presents for Syd and today she didn't disappoint once again! Sydney got a lovely little Passover gift, a board book, some ladybug hair clips and a a super cute pink purse complete with a shiny beaded handle! I loved it so much I could have snatched it out of Sydney's hands and carried around myself for the afternoon. I didn't, of course, but I'm just saying, it's pretty awesome! It was so nice to see my sister and her husband and my nephews and catch up.
When we got home we found a parcel waiting on the front porch for us, a box full of some new clothes for Sydney for the summer season from The Children's Place. I am always so pleased with the clothes that I get from Children's Place, they are excellent quality and super cute and their sizing is great! They have fantastic online sales all the time, it's fast becoming one of my favourite places to order stuff for Syd from!
Syd especially loved these strawberry sunglasses and the ladybug rain jacket that I got for her for next season. She had both of them and her watermelon socks on and paraded around the house for quite some time today, it was very cute!
So we had a wonderful start to our week. Everyone is starting to feel healthy and well again, here's hoping it lasts for a while this time and that we can enjoy the amazing weather and a beautiful spring in Vancouver!
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