Happy bunny day!

April 12, 2009

Happy bunny day!

Firstly, sorry to everyone who has problems reading posts written in yellow like this but it *is* Easter so i got to use this colour, right? Secondly, i think Easter might just be my favourite celebration of the whole year because it's so pretty and you get lots of chocolate and there's pictures of sweet baby animals everywhere. Though i usually feel that every celebration is my favourite when we come to it! But this has been a really great Easter weekend, and Poppy's first one ever so i thought i'd write all about it....

Yesterday we did our Easter celebrations with just the 3 of us - after an early horse-riding lesson for me (with Sir and Poppy watching and mooching round feeding the other horses) we drove to a farm and spent the rest of the day there. They had a special Easter weekend, with an egg hunt round the farm, a duckling trail to follow, an Easter bonnet competition, a 'meet the Easter bunny' event, and lots of cute baby chicks, bunnies and lambs to pet and feed. Poppy absolutely loved everything except she was afraid of the person dressed up in the Easter bunny suit and cried when he tried to come over and talk to her! And i did get to fulfil my wish of bottle-feeding a lamb at the 'feeding time' show/talk - crikey those lambs are frisky and they really go for it with their drinking, but they were soooooo cute and i got to pet it's little woolly curls whilst holding onto the bottle for dear life with the other hand!

Poppy's favourite parts of the day were meeting the animals in the petting barn (rabbits, guinea pigs, rats and ferrets) - she adores little animals like this and will happily sit among them letting them climb on her and run around her; playing in the sandpit - she could have stayed there for hoursssss; and being pulled around the farm in her very own car which they have for children :) We're thinking of holding her birthday party there next year when she's a bit bigger and can properly make use of all the kids stuff they've got there.

Then today we had a busy Easter Sunday - in the morning we exchanged Easter eggs and i got a scrummy Cadburys Creme Egg gift set from Sir and a gold Lindt bunny from Poppy. We didn't let Poppy get any chocolate eggs this year because she hasn't had chocolate yet and we wanted to put that off for a while, so instead we gave her a really cute toy bunny and a chick toy which cheeps when you hold it in your hand :) After breakfast we joined in the village Easter egg hunt, which is held on one particular farm near us and lots of families go to it and have a good time. i helped Poppy find some eggs, but she was more interested in crawling round on the grass and 'chatting' away to all the people there! There's other events and stuff that go on after the egg hunt but we had a prior engagement so off we went round my parents' and had a scrummy Easter lunch there (turkey with all the trimmings), which Poppy really enjoyed too, and i got more Easter goodies! We came home in the middle of the afternoon and me and Poppy made chocolate Easter nests for tea (and got in a right mess!) and then i decorated eggs with pictures of chicks and bunnies and flowers and rainbows. Sir's mum came round for tea and we had decorated boiled eggs with dippy soldiers, hot cross buns and chocolate nest cakes - perfect. Anddddd i got yet more chocolate for Easter :)

So a lovely Easter, we all had a good time, especially Poppy, and i'm feeling nice and full of chocolate now (today i was allowed to eat it whenever i liked but from tomorrow the usual rules apply of having to wait until Sir gives me permission - oh well!). Happy Easter to everyone and i hope you all got lots of yummy chocolate too :)