Right we're pretty light on pictures and video this week, so if reading isn't your strong point and you usually just scroll through fotr the pictures......UNLUCKY!!!
Better get the school update out of the way first I suppose, it's still brilliant. I've ahd a few 'clingy' moments if the truth be told, but on the whole i've loved it. We had football training last week by somebody from Reading Football Club (apparently they used to be good?). I've got a new nickname, Ned Flanders! I wasn't that happy about it until Dad told me it was a man from the Simpsons....that made it seem a a lot better. I now have my own book bag and got to bring home my first book for the week, a dinosaur one! I made Dad read it three times, Mum hasn't got off the hook either! I take my sandwiches to school in a Lightning Mcqueen lunch box (of course), trouble is, so do another five children...cue frequent home time mix ups! We also get to wave to Max on the way home as he is usually playing in the big kids playground, he seems to have settled in very nicely too! Here's the first fruits of my creative labours at school, a train and an aeroplane no less:
I get Mum to myself on the trip to nursery now, so instead of listening to Ned bump his gums all the way there I get to ask the questions...well gurgle and point excitedly anyway! Mum still does her professional tour guide bi tthoigh and points out everything and anything of interest on the way. I'm enjoying my new room at nursery too, Claire looks after me a lot which Mum and Dad like because she used to look after Ned when he first started at nursery. They wear me out though, i'm asleep in the cuddly book corner everytime Dad comes to get me. Did I mention the fact that i'm a snuggle monster at the moment? I love cuddling up with a blanket or anything else i can get my hands on. I really hit gold this week when I managed to open a cupboard in my bedroom and found it to be full up with loads and loads of teddies! They all fell on me and I had the time of life in a cuddling frenzy! I'm also now pretty much entirely self feeding, resistant to all but the most forcefull and persevering attempts at feeding me. Drinkign is another matter alltogether, there is nothing I like better than to fill my resevoir like cheeks up with as much water as I can manage to contain before letting it all dribble down my chin. I like to accompany this with a slight look of 'what are you going to do about it then' (to which they usualky take the cup off me very quickly).
Animals, I really love animals at the moment. Dogs especially, but pretty much any of them will do. Walking anywhere where there is likely to be dogs is a very time consuming event these days as we have to stop and have a really good look at them.
So then, Legoland anyone? AGAIN!!!!! You'd never guess we had a season ticket would you?
We didn't go an many rides this time, just the boats, the cars and the train before we had a picnic in the sunshine, there's a first this year! We had come to see the machines though, first off we watched a load of skateboarders, bmx'ers and roller bladers ride a big half pipe. I was moderatley interested for a little while, especially in the roller bladers which rather worried Dad I think. They went highest and did the most spins though!
I particularly liked this Ferrari, i'm saving my pocket money for one (well some of it anyway, there's sweets to buy too!):
It was really all about the monster trucks though:
I decided that I wanted to get close up to the action so took off through the crowd, leaving Dad and Ellis in my wake and Mum to give chase, here she is, as pointed out by the arrow (I was right against the barrier). Mum and a few others got told off by some grumpy people behind her for standing up and blocking their view, another lady gave them what for, I think she sounded even angrier than a monster truck!!! They were certainy loud and really monsterous! They even pulled a car in half in a game of tug of war!
Even I loved them, Dad thought their loud engines would make me cry but I just growled right back at them and gave them a wave!
We went home mid afternoon as we were pretty tired, Dad hated leaving a theme park that was still open ......
Sue came and babysat for us on saturday night, brilliant she hadn't been for a while! We talked about school and read our new books. Thanks Sue, hopefully they won't be quite so agrophobic and will call upon your services a bit sooner this time round.
Sunday was almost a complete washout, we went bike shopping for mum, great, except all the bike shops we went to were closed. How exciting, if it hadn't been for the great park we found and the McDonalds we had for lunch I would have been less than impressed.
So then on to Monday, the sun was out and we were up for adventure. The bikes came out and we went out to explore.
Yep, I got loaded up in the seat on the back of Dad's bike and we were off. I liked it much more than the first few times I went on it and loved watching Ned zoom alongside us.
First stop was the park, I whooped Dad around the track a few times before having a play. Then we saddled up again and went down through a dark woodland track, it was really muddy and our tyres slipped all ove the place. We both managed to stay upright though.
Yep, then we got to another park, had another play and made friends with the locals before moving on again.
We ended up on a gravel track, on a railway bridge over the track. We had a gane of 'guess which way the next train will come from' Ellis and I picked one way, Dad the other....of course we won! The train driver helped us celebrate our win with a little toot of his horn and a nice wave from his cab. We were thrilled with that!
I had a bit of the moment with the muddy tyres brushing up against my legs on the way home, Dad says this is how boys should look when they come in from a bike ride:
What would he know, he's usually limping, covered in dirt and complaining when he comes back from a bike ride!
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