Tribeca Family Festival

We spent Saturday at the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair. The Tribeca Film Festival puts it on every year and it was our first but not last time attending. It was so fun! We spent the entire day there. There were activities for every person in the family to enjoy. I had a blast. Best day of the month so far! Maybe next year we will attend of the films.  

We entered at the right spot for the kids, the bubble tables! We have already gone through a bubble wand and have started on our second bottle of bubbles this season. They were especially excited to make the giant bubbles. 

Henry was really good at the bubbles. He got a few big ones in and also got completely soaked. He had a blast.

Got this girl a balloon. She asks for balloons all the time. I am glad we were able to make her balloon dreams come true.

Minion sand sculpture. Those little guys in the movie make me laugh. 

We were lucky and were right next to the puppet show when it started. We got to listen to a hilarious retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It was seriously the funniest retelling I have ever heard. Cause I'm Goldilocks. I am still laughing over here. 

My handsome boys. I love them so so much.

There was a decorate your own cupcake booth which we could not pass up. She wanted to vanilla cake with yellow frosting. I am glad she still likes the color yellow. Henry liked eating all the excess sprinkles on her plate. 

Jazz band on stilts. We enjoyed listening to the music and their funny feet. Cosette said they were monsters because they were so tall. Her imagination is really taking off. The stories she tells me are hilarious. I love talking with her.

Learning about first aid on the ambulance. Henry was so excited to get into the truck. He is obsessed with trucks lately. We have to stop and look at every single one we walk by. He is all boy and I love it! It's new territory for me and I am enjoying engaging in the all the things he is interested in. Puppies, balls, and trucks fyi.

There were two things that we had to do while we were at the fair per Cosette: get a balloon animal and her face painted. So we made it happen. She had been telling us all day that she wanted her face to be painted like a turtle. I had told her she could get her face painted like anything she wanted and she came back and said she wanted to get it painted like a turtle. I was really surprised by it and she stuck by that until we sat down in the chair. she then told the face painter she wanted to be a pink/purple sparkly dragon. This kid is full of surprises! It was not a usual face painting job. They used a spray gun type devise to spray the face paint on their faces. Cosette did not like that too much and ended up only getting half her face done. I was proud of her for being brave enough to try it out even though she was unsure about it. She looked awesome!

Behold the fierce pink/purple dragon!

There was a stride bike activity station where the kids could ride these bikes that did not have peddles, so they just scooted themselves along. There was a short little course that had a ramp and one bumpy "bridge". The kids loved it. Cosette was a pro. It was my favorite thing we did with them that day.

Me and my little lover. He needed some help getting through the course. He loved it so much. He giggled and said "wee" as we went over the ramps and the bumpy part. 

Henry with his Strider ribbon. He totally rocked the course.

The film festival was doing a Back to the Future tribute since its the thirty year anniversary of its release. There was a free screening that evening you could get tickets to and a whole Back to the Future section at the festival where we got to see the DeLorean. Seriously the coolest car ever. 

The last thing we did before heading home was getting the balloon animals. This was the second thing we had to do per Cosette before we could leave. Once again she surprised by saying she wanted a dog, because these guys were pros and could make just about anything. I thought she was going to ask for a princess crown or something else. We were going to ask for a dog for H anyway so it worked out. We are, well were, for a brief period of time the owners of two cute balloon dogs. Cosette named hers "Totsie".  Henry let go of his on the way home and it blew down the street. Thank goodness for a Daddy who will do some crazy things to get balloon animals back. So this is the closet these kids will ever get to having a dog while we live in the city. It satisfied their pet craving for the moment. They will probably start asking again tomorrow.

It was such a fun day. I keep telling Lyndon over and over again how much fun I was having. It has been a long time since we have gone out as a family and had fun like this. Lyndon has been working so much, which is fine, we just miss him. It was nice to have him go on an outing with  us. I miss the student days where any day of the week could turn into a fun adventure. Me and the kids were out last week and it was so nice I wished Lyndon could have been there to enjoy it with us. Missing him so much makes days we get to spend with him so much better. We are so lucky to have such a great Daddy!

The moral of this outing is everything is better when we are together, especially in spring when the weather is nice.