Big weekend

Well, something of a monster update this week.
We’ve had Nanny round for tea, Aunty Chris round for babysitting and uncle Alan has gone.
Last Wednesday after we’d been shopping, Dad and I went out on his bike. I’d been pestering him about it for ages so it was high time he gave in. The weather was lovely and we rode all the way to Thatcham. I really enjoyed the fresh air and made sure I got plenty of snot on the back of dad’s jumper. We went to a park by the side of the A4 and had a go on the swings. I made dad sit in the one next to me but I think his bum was a bit big for it. We looked out over the traffic and I had great fun pointing out lorries, Nee-Nars, bikes and motorbikes. I also enjoyed bellowing out ‘Man’ to an unsuspecting pedestrian. I also set my swing height record which dad managed to propel me to without getting off his own swing, I think his big behind was stuck in it.
Mum went to work on Saturday, I slowly drove dad made throughout the day.
Sunday things were looking up. The sun was out and dad was packing sandwiches…trip out! They were going on about animals, we ended up at Marwell!

I took charge of the map and started issuing the orders. First stop was the penguins. They swam right up to the wall for my amusement, they even had a little underground bit with a window into their pool. They were zooming past the window under the water which made me laugh. After that I demanded Tigers but was fobbed off with a succession of lesser beasts. Not even the giraffes were that good. We saw some leopards that were pretty smart but they weren’t tigers. I also tried to steal one of the golf buggy style vehicles that the zoo keeper had just parked up but she’d taken the keys.

We had lunch overlooking the Zebra’s which was okay, but there was a slight whiff in the air. When we finally got to the tigers I wasn’t that bothered about them even though one of them was having a dip in his pool. I know that they eat MEAT though.
My favourite animals were the sheep in the petting zoo, never mind all these fancy weird looking things.
The best bit of the trip though was the train ride:

After all that we came home and went to Pizza hut, inspired by the diet of the big cats I’d seen at the zoo I demanded the waiter get me MEAT. I had to settle for ham on my pizza. I also pulled two cracking ladies during the course of my meal, they love a boy with tomato puree on his chops.
After I’d had a bath mum frightened the life out of by telling me the ‘Gruffalo’ was coming and banging on the floor to mimic his hefty footsteps. Having spent all day looking at weird and wonderful creatures I think I was a bit more susceptible to this sort of wind up and mum assured me that the Gruffalo was only in the book and not on the landing after all.
Rounding the weekend off we went to the Swimming Pool again yesterday. I was well up for it again and couldn’t wait to get in the water, in fact I’d been wearing my arm bands nearly all morning while we were waiting for Dad to get home from work. It al went sour in the end though when we were walking around the outside of the pool and saw people in the café with chips. I decided chips looked a much better bet than the swimming pool. I was quickly marched back to the changing room and we went home without any chips at all, oh dear.
That’s about it for this week, no update next week I’m afraid as we’re off on holiday. Look out for a special double helping next time.

Paint!

Hello everyone. Hope you are all well.
What have I got to tell you this week.....Well it was Nanny's birthday last Friday so Dad got really brave and let me make her a card with real live paints:

I've done loads of this at nursery and I think I surprised dad with my skills. I'm quite a prolific artist so I produced quite a large number of pieces. Dad was running out of places to put them all with their wet dripping edges. Once i'd had enough I made a break for the sofa covered in paint, Dad frantically chased after me, it was really funny. He caught me just in time and dragged me off to the sink for a good rinse down.
Speaking sinks, I can annoy them really easily by turning on the hot tap of the downstairs toilet and then running off....ha.
On Saturday we went to some really funny places that had loads of bathrooms in them? I climbed in and out of the bath tubs and mum was doing her nut because she didn't my shoes leaving dirty marks. In the last place we visited they even had a bath full of bubbly water. I wasn't allowed to play in it though.
We went out for a walk in the woods on Sunday, it was freezing cold. They wrapped me up nicely in my buggy though and I went to sleep while they shivered their way round.
Dad took me to the pet shop yesterday. I quite liked the fish and the birds, but my favourites were the rabbits and the mice. We then did a bit of trainspotting and saw one of those really big trains with 36 carriages. Dad counted them, I can only get to two on my own....
Nanny came round in the afternoon, we watched some horse racing on the telly and played with my toys. I also had a smashing little tantrum so she's seen that side of me too.
Much to Mum's relief i've learned a new word, instead of endless bouts of 'no' i've also mastered use of the word 'yes' This is in addition to the colours Purple, Pink and Blue.....

One year of Blogging!

Well, thats beena year of Blogs now, can you believe it? Doesn't time fly when you're having fun!
Early with the update as well this week, there’s a turn up for the books!
We went away for the weekend, it was smart. Dad and I went to pick up mum from work on Friday night but we didn’t go back home we went to Max’s house down in Somerset. I had a bit of a kip in the car so I was well up for it when we arrived. I like Max, he’s a good bit older than me so can do loads of cool stuff and has smart toys. Having said that, I must be getting a bit bigger as mum discovered I was in fact too long for my little sleeping bag and couldn’t quite stretch my legs out properly so here I am trying out a duvet for the first time:

Because I was in Mum and Dads room I was able to get them up nice and early, which was a good job because Max had decided he was King Kong and rampaged through our room after escaping from the travel cot/cage I had been sleeping in.
We went out to the playground but I was more interested in getting some food together. Now I must own up to having a bit of a naughty one here. We went to a fancy Pasty shop where they had got me my very own ‘Baby pasty’. The problem was I caught sight of the chocolate brownie first…I wouldn’t entertain the pasty at all and kicked off big time, it ended up with dad whipping me out of the high chair and out of the shop to stand outside until I had calmed down. It didn’t take long and I sat back down and ate my whole pasty before moving on to the brownie.
On Saturday night, Andy turned up too which was good. Dad cooked dinner, Max did some cool breakdancing and I dressed up as Bob The builder:

I had good reason to believe that the grown ups had been up pretty late watching boxing on Saturday night so I let them have a very small lie in on Sunday.
Once we were up and about Max took me out in his car. Just us two, no grown ups. I had a grin a mile wide fixed on my face and loved being driven around:

It was such good fun. I had a go at driving too, but couldn’t quite reach the go pedal so Andy had to run along side pressing it down with a tennis racket, thanks Andy!
I’d like to thank Max, Emma, Dean and Andy for giving me such a lovely weekend, must do it again soon!
I’d also like to thank Grandad and Anne this week for getting me a new coat. Laura got me my last one for Christmas last year and although it’s been a lovely jacket it is now getting a bit short in the arms, in fact it it’s quite a bit short in the arms. Mum and dad had been supposedly looking for a new one but couldn’t find any because it’s all summer stuff in stock or something. I reckon they were just trying to eek it out until the autumn the stinge-bags.

This is becomig quite a habit isn't it?

Late again this week….sorry!
Hmmm, mum and dad are still coughing and spluttering. I’ve been okay so far so fingers crossed.
Haven’t really been doing much, we went shopping in Southampton on Saturday. It was rubbish, they didn’t buy me anything although they did treat me to a Marks and Spencer cheese and ham sandwich which I ate really nicely. I didn’t pick the fillings out first or anything and didn’t even make that much mess down my coat which was a first. Eventually they took me to the park by the sea. It was pretty cold but the sun was out.

Here I am coming down what must be the biggest slide in the world, so big you can’t even see the bottom of it!

They also had a maze, I went straight to the middle with no messing about but we cheated on the back and mum skipped over the wall with me.
Mum has been working her socks off lately and keeps telling me we’re going on holiday soon, to the seaside by all accounts too so that should be nice. I’ve no idea where Scarborough is but I hope it’s as warm and sunny as Portugal was….
We went to Grandad and Anne’s for Sunday lunch and I’m not sure I’ll get invited back again. I was playing about in the kitchen with Anne and while she wasn’t looking turned the hob on….just a little bit. On top of the hob was a wooden chopping board. It made a quite unpleasant burning smell. Oh dear, at least I didn’t burn the house down.