An Eggciting Easter

Well we certainly made the most of our four day long weekend.

Friday: We spent the day at the Royal Easter show

We mistakenly took the ferry only to find the stop is nowhere near the showground and there was no shuttle bus. We started walking but it was too far and so we gave up and waited for the local bus which took us halfway back to concord before we got there!

However things got better and the kids had a great time running from ride to ride. We went to see the farmyard animals and Ela enjoyed petting all the lambs and goats. Tom wasn't as confident but trailed around after her.



Whilst Tom had a sleep Ela chose to go on a white knuckled ride - it was this rotating swing that went pretty high and pretty fast. Not sure who was more scared her or us (watching!) She alo did the giant slide with her Dad and was suitably disappointed when she hooked a plastic duck only to win a cheap tiara and not the giant cuddly toy she had her eye on.

Then there was the ABC kids roadshow - we watched the Rory show and Justine Clark even put in an appearance. We had to record the obligatory DVD and this time Ela chose a Wiggles song - for Tom's benefit. However Tom was too stupefied to sing when he realised his heroes were playing behind him.




Saturday: this was our 'day off' where we did normal weekend stuff  -  we worked in the garden (on the roses) then went to the local park to kick a ball. Then we had visitors (Izzy and her mum Anna) who stayed for a play, followed by shopping at Rhodes.

Sunday: it was back in Easter mode and the day was nearly off to a disaster. Before Ela went to bed last night she left a note for the Easter bunny with a few of her small chocolate eggs. 'These are for you' she wrote (in the hope that he would leave her even more treats for her kindness). When she came in to our room this morning and said , come on Tom lets go down and see what the Easter bunny has left us, I shot up in terror - I had forgotten to remove the eggs and I had also forgotten to buy any Easter eggs for them! But I managed to fob off the grumpy reply that came bouncing back upstairs with 'He hasn't been' by telling her it was probably because he knew she was going to Cronulla and surely he was leaving her something there instead (phew). This seemed to mollify her.

So we drove to Nannie and Grandad's house to find the Easter Bunny had just been and left buckets for all the kids (The Royals were already there waiting for our arrival). A great time was had by all, running around the garden and filling their buckets. Mark and I even got an Easter treat - baby sitting whilst we went to the movies to see the Blind Side.

Monday: My birthday so i was allowed a 'lie in'. As usual the kids couldn't contain themselves and came bursting in at about 7 o'clock with my cards and cuppa. We were having friends over for lunch so we embarked on a big tidy up - managed to dump a bin bag full of rubbish from the toy room - very therapeutic.

I read the riot act to Ela just before they arrived - 2 rules for the day. 1 - no mention of chocolate (as Sally is allergic) and 2. No tantrums when its time for people to go home. If both rules were kept I promised she could eat as many chocolates as she wanted.

The kids (Ela, Tom, Elliot, Sally, Bo and Tia) amazed me by eating fish and rice followed by sausages (the back up plan for those who wouldn't eat the fish - all did except for Tom of course) then had a ball chasing each other around and playing hide and seek. Leaving the adults to enjoy some interesting conversations about the strange habits of kids and of course our favourite subject of house building and renovations.

Ela almost managed to keep to the rules but couldn't quite help herself - as the last kids were walking out the door she exclaimed happily 'oh good now I can have as much chocolate as I want'.