Showing posts with label Sydney Royal Easter Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sydney Royal Easter Show. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

It's Easter!

Happy Easter!
Easter Crafts
MissE and her BFF (CJ) spent an afternoon making Easter Baskets and toilet roll chicks and bunnies.


Easter Bonnet Parade (at daycare)
The Easter Parade is a favourite of MissE's.  Although she made a hat at daycare, she asked me to make her a hat with purple flowers (fabric flowers, too easy) which she wore for the parade.
Daycare-made hat


After marching with her friends, the Easter Bunny paid the children a visit with a basket full of chocolate eggs.

Hot-cross buns were on the menu for afternoon tea.  I made Hidden Egg Surprise Rice Crispie Treats for her friends too.

Speaking of baking, I had a 3 month hiatus post-MissE's birthday so I decided to spend a good portion of the holiday baking.  Here are my mini-cupcakes:
Mini-chocolate bird nest cupcakes

Easter Sunday
MissE and Mr.E woke up to find the Easter Bunny had paid them a visit!  MissE scored a Monster Police Truck with a chocolate egg and Mr.E, a Peter Rabbit toy with small chocolate eggs (which MissE happily ate for him).  The Cadbury Marshmallow Eggs were for Mr.H and I.

No girly-girl here!



Easter Egg Hunt
This year's Easter Egg Hunt & Breakfast was at Cousin H&C's.  The girls enjoyed running around gathering as many eggs as they could find and also finding the big Easter Bunny!  However they thought the chocolate eggs were breakfast...


*MissE also had an Easter Egg Hunt at daycare.  The teachers set out the chocolate eggs while the children were outside playing, gave them their paper baskets made earlier during the day, and let them loose!  A few teachers told me how MissE found ALL the chocolate eggs before the other children had a chance to look!  MissE was more than happy to share her findings as long as the teachers slipped her a few extra.


The Sydney Royal Easter Show
A favourite of mine, we ventured off to the Easter Show on Easter Monday.  We took the train there which made Eloise and Eden very happy.  Eden loved looking out the window as we were travelling.  That was all the excitement he needed as he spent most of our time at the Show fast asleep!

We spent the most time in The Food Farm learning where our food comes from.  Eloise got to sit in a tractor and turned oats into pastry.
Where does my burger come from?

On the tractor

One of many cut-outs we took photos in
(like mother like daughter!)

Grinding our oats

Rolled into pastry

Next was the Dairy Farmer's Farmyard Nursery where she got to feed and pat baby farm animals.

She requested to go on one ride, first choosing an adult ride (I don't think so) but was happily steered into the Kids Carnival onto the Fantasy Cups (in-training for Disneyland!)
Spinning, spinning, spinning...
maybe too much spinning for a very tired MissE?
On the train home

This year, she chose a Sesame Street show bag (although she does not watch Sesame Street anymore), mostly for the Elmo Umbrella which Sabi ate last year.
MissE's Elmo umbrella and hat

Monday, April 25, 2011

I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hop, you don't stop... Happy Easter!

Easter is upon us, and lucky for us, in Australia it also coincides with Anzac Day which means we've had an extra long break.  Festivities for us started with MissE's Easter Hat Parade at her daycare.  MissE walked the walk and was visited by the Easter Bunny.


Easter Bonnet made by me (paper flowers, a pink chick (unseen) and beaded butterflies (unseen)


Thank you Easter Bunny!
Good Friday
Our annual trip to the Royal Easter Show is one of the things I look forward to every year.  We started the day with a visit to the Dog Pavilion.  Then we moved onto the agricultural exhibits with a visit to the cattle, sheep, alpaca and horses.  This year, the Royal Easter Show featured, Fonzy, the largest cow in Australia, standing at 1.885metres!  He really is one big cow!


The Fonz

We had a hard time pulling MissE away from a friendly alpaca named Supernova.  He kept coming over to nuzzle MissE's head.


And finally, we spent nearly 2 hours in the Dairy Farmer's Nursery.  It's a favourite of mine, a chance to get upclose and personal with sheep, lambs, goats, calves, donkeys, etc.  She loved the chickens running wild.  See Mama chasing MissE chasing the chickens!  MissE (aka the Goat Whisper) would not leave until each and every goat received a "kiss" and "cuddle".  I see Farm Stays in our near future!


Sheep cuddles!

Me chasing Eloise chasing the chickens!

No show is complete without a visit to the Show Bag Pavilion.  MissE picked a Sesame Street and a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse showbag.

The loot: Singing in the rain!

Easter Sunday
We hosted a Toddler Easter Egg Hunt and a brunch for family and friends.  We had 3 very excited toddlers hunting eggs (it seems CJ is missing the 'Y' chromosome that seeks chocolate!) and desperate to eat them all up!  Luckily we had brunch ready to be served.

Shh! Be very quiet!  We're hunting chocolate eggs!


This is how I roll!

How much did you get???

We had the pleasure of attending our first Indian 1st birthday celebration.  The women were gorgeous in their saris, the food was delicious and MissE boogied the night away until 10pm to the latest in Indian pop music.  Oh yes, and it marked a milestone for me!  It was the first time in as I can remember that I was able to be in the same room, in close proximity to a clown without hyperventilating in the corner.  Go me, conquering my fears!

Hand-painting

Itsy bitsy

Umm... not sure if that's the right way to limbo?


Balloon animals

My giraffe

Let them eat cake!

Bollywood, up to no good!