Easter morning. This is the best photo I could get thanks to low light and a moving toddler. We don’t have a lot of room to hide eggs this year thanks to our compressed living conditions so I made a half-hearted attempt at creating a little egg trail that Thomas had to follow to gather eggs to put in his basket. I gave him a few chocolate eggs but also three plastic eggs containing matchbox cars, a book and some Wiggles stickers that the Easter Bunny magically knew to grab before we left the concert.

I hadn’t really built up the whole Easter Bunny thing so I think it was a nice surprise for Thomas rather than something he was anticipating.

The rest of our Easter was very low key spent relaxing and tidying up before the construction chaos begins again tomorrow. OK, part of it was recovering from the Wiggles concert. Being 7.5 months pregnant is not the best situation to be in when you have to carry a 30 pound toddler down about 100 very steep stairs in a concert arena. There’s no nice way to say it – I was knackered.

Saturday was a VERY big day. Thomas and I went to see The Wiggles in concert. Yes, those four middle aged men in coloured skivvies who sing and dance to entertain toddlers. It was so much fun!

Thomas and I met up with three of my friends who have kids the same age. I met most of this group when I was pregnant with Thomas and the kids were all born within three months of each other (the boys within three weeks). My choice for photo of the day is the best shot I was able to get of them all together. They were pretty much done by this stage and ready to go home.

From the moment The Wiggles came out on stage, Thomas was awestruck. He sat on my lap with his mouth open for the first 15 minutes of the show, like this…

I don’t think he could quite believe what he was seeing. And then when Captain Feathersword came out… well, the only thing I can compare it to is if I ran into Robbie Williams on the street. OK, I may not be as composed as Thomas if I were to run into Robbie. Here are some more photo highlights.

You can see how close we were – 6th row on the floor. The best concert seats I have ever had. For Wiggle virgins – that’s Murray Wiggle in the red.

The aforementioned Captain Feathersword. Not sure what Thomas’ attraction is.

Thomas and Ava. She is such a little performer. And I promise Thoams did dance (and smile) during the show. It was just difficult to catch on camera.

Ava decided to sit on my lap and of course Thomas couldn’t let that happen unless he had some part of it too.

The famous big red car and the close of the show.

We had a ball and the kids were great. Not one meltdown during the entire show and, apart from a slight incident where Thomas fell though the back of a folding chair onto the concrete floor, the entire adventure was a success!

We got home at about 7:00 and that’s when Thomas decided that it was all too much. A very tired little boy went to bed crying. Not the perfect end to a perfect day but I think Thomas will remember this for a long time. Well…until he forgets his toddler years anyway. Seriously – who can remember when they were two years old?

Oh and we finished our taxes – see, the perfect day! 🙂

Thomas’ daycare has a Friday Fun night every couple of months where he gets to stay at daycare until 10pm, eating pizza, playing with his friends and watching a movie. OK, not as much fun for the kids and the caregivers as it is for Mum and Dad. This is one of the very few opportunities where Kei and I get to spend some time together doing adult things like dinner and a movie.

Since our night is over at 10pm we start early. This time we decided on happy hour at the Sapphire Hotel. Happy hour in Portland means regularly priced drinks but cheap food. Perfect for a pregnant woman with a big appetite. 🙂

Next we stopped for some Gelato and then made our way to the Laurelhurst theatre to see Atonement. We had planned on No Country for Old Men but it seems they changed the movie time on us and we were working to a strict 10pm curfew. We actually bumped into two other sets of parents at the same movie – neighbours with kids in the same daycare. I guess everyone equates Friday Fun with catching up on the movies they missed.

I was a little skeptical about Atonement since I had tried (and failed) to read the book, but the movie was actually really great. Not very uplifting, but a great story and wonderful cinematography. I would give it an A-. The night overall definitely an A. We had a great time.

We picked Thomas up at 10 which was nearly three hours past his bedtime. He was pretty tired and cranky and didn’t actually want me to touch him which was a little heartbreaking. I had to wake him up three hours into his nap on Saturday so I guess he was pretty wiped out.