Australia Day (January 26) took on some new significance for us this year, for two reasons: 1. Eli is now aware that we live in Australia, and 2. Eli is always excited about days off from daycare - I call them weekends and public holidays, he just calls them 'home days'.
To celebrate Australia Day this year, Eli declared that we should "eat pavlova, with strawberries and passionfruit, for breakfast". For those of you that don't know, pavlova is a dessert, so I had to negotiate with Eli on this matter and re-schedule our pavlova eating for later in the day. One of the sweeteners in my negotiating was that we could play some cricket in the backyard first - a very Australian thing to do - and Eli was more than happy to launch my bowling into the garden, and as you will see in the video, over the fence (which is 6 foot high) and into the neighbour's yard too!
After our cricket session (and the retrieval of balls hoisted into the neighbour's yard), we decided to take Zoomy and Swifty for a walk in the backyard. We ran the hose from our rain tank for a while and then let the turtles wander around while I kept a watchful eye out for kookaburras, butcherbirds and crows that would probably enjoy turtle for their breakfast. True to type, Swifty just sat in the water, all tucked into his shell. Zoomy, on the other hand, was keen to explore and I frequently had to catch him and return him to the same section of lawn as Swifty.
Around lunchtime we had a visit from Addie, Ashford and Uncle Jeff - and in addition to having an Australia Day bbq, Eli and Addie had a great cool down (it was a nice hot sunny day) running around and getting sprayed by Uncle Jeff!
True to my promise from earlier in the day, Eli enjoyed finishing off his Australia Day with a mini pavlova, with strawberries and passionfruit. Now I know that I'm a long way from being an executive chef, but I did try to keep it patriotic and on theme by a) representing the colours of the Australian flag using the bowl, the pavlova and the strawberries, and b) representing Australia's sporting colours using the green and gold of the passionfruit. A fiting end to a fun-filled day.
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