This pass Sunday we enjoyed our very first festival as family on what turn out to be a very beautiful day! At first we didn't think our son who is 6 months old would enjoyed because he is to small, but he truly did enjoyed himself as well as it was something different for us to do over the weekend. Being that it was our first festival together, I love how there was so much for us to do and it was so big with many activities some free and some not, and different shows to see, oh yeah and good food and cold drinks for a hot and beautiful day that we had that day. When we got there even though my son is small and can't walk or crawl yet, they had a booth sponsor by Texas Children's hosptial to tag your tot which is a bright orange post it note with parents name and number just in case your child/children got lost during the festival, and if you miss the booth they had people walking around making sure your child/children were tag. Our son may have been small but we still tag our tot just in case. Once we tag our tot we walked around, and looked at the different booths and even enjoyed the CircusTown & Big Top Stage sponsor by Baker Hughes, and we were front center for the motorcycle globe of thunder show which got not only our attention but my son attention as well. Than when the show was over we enjoyed a nice cold lemonade and of course an ice cream cone walked around some more, and stop a few times for a diaper change which I loved as a first time parent the diaper change tent came in handy. Like I said many booths offer free activities and hand out bags with paperwork, some even had coupons, and some had them on their tables. We loved the CHI St. Luke's Health booth offer character drawing which we got one of our son and the artist was asking for was tips, which we didn't mind at all. Than EP Energy offer tile painting at first we were not going to do one, but thought about it and got my son's footprint and I put his name and year and it the back I put his first festival. Everywhere you walked you enjoyed the different kinds of music, and we got free sample from Mcdonalds of there delicious smoothies which was good on a hot day, and loved how we saw smile after smile on everyone faces. Before we left my son couldn't join the derby as he crawling backwards, but they had a diaper derby and we got helpful information from the Nightlight Pediatrics Urgent Care Tot
Spot.
You know you had a good day and a good time at the festival when we left we had a smile and we were so tired. As well as my son didn't even nap much, as he didn't want to miss a thing but when he came home he knocked out after a bottle and a nice bath!
Thank you to Child Advocates and along with Baker Hughes and many other sponsors, as well as the vounlteers for doing such a wonderful job putting the festival together.
This may be our first but it won't be last!
So I would love to hear from you....Did you catch the McDonalds Children's festival this pass weekend? What was your favorite part? Did you do any of the activities that were offer? How about the food? How was experience and will you be returning next year?
Lauren
**Disclosure - Tradition Hispanic Wife and family received free tickets to the event in exchange for this and any future posts. These are my own opinions and thoughts, and no compensation was received!
Here are a few pictures from the festival, Enjoy!
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