We went into the city again this year for the New Year Fireworks. This year we decided to stay only for the Family Fireworks at 9pm.
We had lots of time to spare before finding a spot to watch the fireworks so we went to the Maritime Museum. They had lots of children’s activities running as it’s the school holidays. Monster enjoyed dressing as a pirate:
He made his own pirate flag at one of the craft tables and then found a glockenspiel to play with in the pirate tent:
He caught some magnetic fish before going out to play in the water fountains outside:
We had some tea and then went to find a god spot to watch the fireworks in Darling Harbour. We sat on the steps along the harbour as it got dark and waited for the fireworks to start:
The fireworks were really good 🙂
There were slightly warmer days when Monster chose his own oufits – his trousers that Mummy made (that are nearly too small now), a shirt, his green hat and shoes, and his Mr Tumble spotty bag:
And then it got hot again and we were back in shorts and t-shirt:
And we went to the zoo. He wore the new shirt he got for Christmas and his sunglasses – a real cool dude!
Monster was eager to try out the binoculars he bought with the Christmas money he received from Grandad – he looks a proper little explorer!
In the morning we came down and monster was a little overwhelmed. He was very excited to see all the presents:
This was the first year he’s been able to open presents properly by himself, which he really enjoyed doing:
We played the games, did building with Duplo, and Monster insisted that we all dress up in his new dressing up outfits too:
It rained all day, and after a play with all his presents Monster wanted to go out in the rain with his umbrella:
There was lots of puddle jumping until his boots were completely full up with water:
Father Christmas was there too along with his reindeer and elves:
The Wiggles sang lots of songs that we knew:
There were big smiles all the way through:
Henry the Octopus sang Jingle Bells in octopus language:
Monster insisted I take a photo of Murray in his muscle suit for the ‘Strong’ song:
Captain Feathersword is one of our favourites:
Along with Dorothy the Dinosaur:
We had a great time 🙂