A couple of weeks ago we attended a Family Playtime Blog Brunch which was organised by Talks to Mums. I was rather excited to be able to take the boys. They love a day trip to London on the train and tube.

Although I’ve only been blogging a year, I know that most blogging events usually take place during the week where we have to either take the day off work or find childcare for our children to be able to attend. Some are organised at the weekend where we are able to go child-free, but it means we then miss out on family time and have to leave our other halves holding the fort.

The Family Playtime Blog Brunch, however, was (as the title suggests) family focused!

As soon as we arrived, M caught sight of the Crystal Holidays snow room and wanted to go in and play, but he was a little apprehensive about it without his brother who took a bit longer in persuading to go in.

It didn’t take long to warm them up though, and they pretty much spent most of the day in and out of that room.

Hubby had arrived with us but left after about an hour as he was meeting a friend so I was left to my own devices with the boys. We headed off to the Craft Workshop where E had great fun making Halloween Lanterns with The Disney Channel’s Lloyd Warbey (from Art Attack)

I couldn’t quite believe how much there was to do for the children. There was a playroom filled with toys and snacks from Bear Nibbles and chocolate milk from Rebel Kitchen aswell as face painting. The boys snacked on Kinnerton chocolate throughout the day, and they were given an advent calendar each to take home. E chose a fantastic Star Wars one where the light saber lit up while M chose a Thomas one.

Unfortunately because hubby left after an hour, I didn’t get a chance to attend any of the talks. The boys at 2 and 5 are too young for me to leave to fend for themselves and I felt it was unfair to drag them into the sessions with me and to expect them to behave. Instead, we concentrated on them running around having lots of fun while I took this opportunity to speak to some of the brands that were there.

Some of our favourites were:

Mini Hornit
We spied these while we were registering to enter the building amongst the pile of prizes for the raffle and I had a quick chat with Tom de Pelet about them when we were queuing up for the Craft Workshop. The Mini Hornit is SO cool – perfect for bikes or scooters and comes with 25 different sound effects! We will be reviewing these on the blog soon so keep your eyes out for the full review.

The boys have been playing with these all morning. Can’t wait to test them out properly on their scooters later! @minihornit @theHORNIT

A photo posted by Suburban Mum (@suburbanmum) on Oct 17, 2015 at 2:10am PDT

Mini Nom Noms
The boys had great fun creating little spice jars to take home and smelling all the lovely aromas of spices from the Mini Nom Noms stand while I had a chat with the ladies on the stand. They have created a range of ready meals with no added salt or sugar for both adults and children alike that are healthy as well as tasty and making our lives a little bit easier on the days where we fancy a night off cooking!

Perform UK
This was the perfect end to a great day. Matt from Perform was brilliant and managed to thoroughly entertain the children. They were in fits of giggles and were running around, dancing and generally having a ball. I was SO impressed with them that the first thing I did when I got home was checked out to see if they have classes in our local area.

@MattBPerform @PerformUK They had an absolute blast Matt – thank you! Will be checking out nearest class to me when I get home! — Suburban Mum (@suburb4nmum) October 10, 2015

Thank you to Talk to Mums for organising this fantastic event. We left with our tummies full of yummy food and chocolate and the biggest goodie bag I have ever seen as well as a game we won in the raffle!

I am already looking forward to the next one!

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