Teddy Bear's Picnic

Hi Y'all!
Hope you had a fabulous weekend! I totally wore myself (and Will and Jaimeson!) out yesterday! We had an awesome family day out together at the Teddy Bear's Picnic at Rosehill Racecourse. It's a fundraiser for the Westmead Children's Hospital & they have heaps of cool activities for kids & families. They have jumping castles, a giant slide, a fire engine, ambulance & police cars and bikes, face painting, play doh, craft, a dancing show etc. The best thing is, once you pay admission all the activities are free {high five!}. Jai doesn't really have a favourite teddy at the moment, so we took along Miffy, cos she was up for the outing (i.e. nearest the door on our way out!) And she looks cute in pictures too. And look at my big boy in the seat part of his pram now, not the basinnet bit anymore. {tear rolling down cheek}. He's growing up!
Will has volunteered at the Teddy Bear's Picnic the last 3 years, but this year he gave that up to spend some time with Jaimeson and I enjoying all the activities! Last year I went with Alicia, Xander, Felicity, Matt, Cooper & Sienna but this year they were all busy so it was just the three Lams enjoying the beautiful sunshiney day! I even ended up getting a little sunburnt despite putting 30+ on!
Jaimeson is still a bit little to enjoy most of the festivities at the picnic but we still found a few things that he (and we!) could enjoy!
We started out at the Kindifarm where Jai got his first look at some interesting animals like a giant goat, sheep, kid & chickens. And even our name-sake! A little Lam(b)! The lamb was quite interested in him! The kindifarm was so so busy. All these city kids who have never seen animals before! Oh, it makes me a little sad to think that Jai is one of those city kids too. Hopefully we can make many trips back to the country and my home town, so he know what animals look like out in the country and not just in a tiny pen!
Next it was on to the Police Bikes for a little sit. Hopefully Jai's only brush with the law, for like, his lifetime! He looks so tiny on the big police bike!
We had to skip by the Ambulance & Fire Engine, cos you need mobility to look in them and Jai's not quite up to it yet!
We toddled around and found some of our work friends who had volunteered. We got free Nappies from the Huggies Change-station {score!}, and free samples of Ribena {double score!}.
We decided Jai is not quite old enough to have his face painted or have his hair sprayed a colour, or to make a hula-hoop at the Bunnings tent, but I put that on the to-do list for future visits!
Oh.. One of my all time favourite things for the little ones were these tiny blow-up bouncy cows! OH SO CUTE! {cuddling self} I really want to get one for Jai for Christmas! They were only $40 from Kidslifestyle too which was not too bad. We sat him on them and bounced him up and down and he held onto the little rubber horns. It was so cute! He really liked it too! I loved those bouncy balls with the antlers we used to have at Infants school. I remember when the bell went for the second half of Big Lunch, everyone used to run to the equipment shed to get there first to get one! I think these cows are even better! Did I tell you how much I want to get Jai one? Or two, so he can have a friend over to bounce with! {heart them}.
There was a Smurf Show on the big stage, even with a giant-headed Smurfette singing "I'm a Smurfy Girl" to the soundtrack of "Barbie Girl". Wow. Intense. {scared look on face!}
Eventually Jai's eyelids were dropping so we decided it was time to go. He didn't even make it back to the car before he was conked out!
What a day!
:) C