Resh­ma Ra­goonath

They may have been too young to walk on their own, but they were not young to jump up in true Tri­ni style!

Ba­bies and tod­dlers, some in arms, got their first taste of Car­ni­val as they had fun in the sun at the Pointe-a-Pierre Chil­dren's Car­ni­val 2013 cel­e­bra­tions at Guaracara Park, Mara­bel­la, on Sun­day.

But­ter­flies, an­gels and Fan­cy In­di­ans reigned at the pop­u­lar an­nu­al Sun­day af­ter­noon event which saw chil­dren three years and un­der straight up to 18 years vie for top prizes.

The event start­ed prompt­ly at 1.40 pm af­ter bless­ings from Mon­sign­or Michael De Ver­teuil.

First to ap­pear be­fore the judges was one year-old cutie Jo­han­na Jum­ra­tee por­tray­ing Macana, the Heal­ing An­gel from the band Legall and Friends, Gems of the Chakras.

Lit­tle Jo­han­na, who had to be held by two adults so she could stand, was dressed in a roy­al pur­ple se­quined dress with match­ing wings and feath­ered head­piece.

Al­though she was ap­pre­hen­sive at first, she quick­ly got in­to the mu­sic and start­ed "bounc­ing" to Su­per Blue's Fan­tas­tic Fri­day tune.

Two year-old Chelsey Mo­hammed, por­tray­ing San­tinkaa "Sioux" (Mag­i­cal Dancer) al­so cap­tured the au­di­ence's at­ten­tion with her vi­brant yel­low and red feath­ered head­piece which was the same length of her tiny frame. Her por­tray­al was from the band South­ern Mas As­so­ciates.

The boys were not to be out­done as two year-old Alex Per­sad, dressed in a white sailor suit with a fan­cy green fish on the back, chipped con­fi­dent­ly be­fore the judges in.

He was fol­lowed by the An­to­nio Ram­per­sad por­tray­ing Prince of the Sea. This cutie thrilled with his bright blue oc­to­pus-like cos­tume com­plete with sea hors­es.