Silence may be golden, but the sound of little voices playing ‘make believe’ in an imaginary rainbow princess land is truly priceless. Over a year ago, one of my sister-in-law’s close friends gifted us our first play mat. It had a few different castles, woods and lakes, and the girls went crazy over it. They have tons of characters/figurines, and they will spend hours making up dialogue and scenarios with the different people. I discovered Camp Castle last week, and I was legitimately going googly-eyed over Hayley’s beautiful designs. When I saw her Rainbow Land Play Mat, I knew the girls would adore it, and I was right – they are obsessed. I shared a few videos on my Instagram the other day and had a lot of curiosity about the mats, with a few questions about which figurines we love and also how do the girls use it. I wanted to write a blog post dedicated to this!

I still cannot believe it’s November. And still warm in Houston, ha. But that’s not too shocking. The month of October was one of the fastest of the year. It feels like we were celebrating my dad’s 60th birthday just last weekend, not a month ago. The girls have been seeing Christmas stuff pop up here and there and are already so excited.

I always love when people share their list of peoples’ favorites for the month (based on affiliate link analytics) – and thought I would see what the top items I had shared this month were. It’s a very random list, but I’m not surprised by anything because they are all great products that we absolutely love. There’s Isla’s pink bedroom rug, Georgie’s favorite sleep sack, a few of our favorite toys/gifts like this cash register and this play sink, and the girls’ daily multivitamins.