Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Bit of a break in normal service last week! There was a surprise holiday but more of that later.....
Way back to two wednesdays ago, there was a card through the door from a courier, Dads birthday present had arrived early. Mum decided there was no way she was going to be able to smuggle it into the house and wrap it up so Dad and I were sent into the collection depot to pick it up. There were loads of van drivers sat around drinking coffee and looking at the internet in their office. When they saw the writing on the box they all asked me if it was mine, it wasn't. The silly old fool had a new BMX. At his age???
Thursday, not my finest hour. Max dropped in on the way home from school as he was desperate for the toilet, while Dad stood outside talking to Emma and Leo Max came back out and then I managed to lock them all out of the house and lock myself and Ellis in. Oh dear. Dad shouted at me to get the stool do I could stand on it to open the door which I managed to do quite nicely. Phew. But then I managed to do it again, even though Dad had put the latch on the door. This time though we were all outside! Oh no. Ellis had to borrow Max's school jumper,
Which I was not pleased about, it was too big and not my colour!
And then we had to walk to Emma's, carrying Ellis as we had no buggy, so that Emma could drive to town to get the spare key from Mum, for us to then walk back home again to let ourselves in. What a palaver. As if that wan't enough excitement for one day it was my first parents evening at school, it wasn't a proper one, just an informal version or something. Anyway, we fed Andy sausage and mash for tea (it's his favourite by all accounts?) and he looked after us while Mum and Dad went out.
They went to see my teacher, in not so many words she said that I was very loud, a real do-er and loved to get creative with whatever was to hand. She also said I was making lots of new friends!
Mum volunteered Dad as a helper in the afternoons and told the lady trying to drum up conscripts that he liked cooking too! Good luck with that one....

Friday afternoon we took a trip to the park, school had finished for the day and a load of my friends were there, eating the remains of their packed lunches and playing in the park. I got to show off my new bike to them too.
But I love it more than they do, I really like bikes and it's not just because Dad makes me or anything:

Here I am trying Ned's old one out for size. Sadly i'm still a little bit on the small side but it won't be long:

The next day however, I was a giant! We went to the model village in Bekonskot:

It was brilliant, I got to walk free range all over the place and managed to eat plenty of paint I found flaking from the railings...yuk!
Here I am waiting for the train:

And in the background i'm off to investigate the burning cottage. It was my idea to come to the model village, and as usual for one of my ideas it was a top day out, there was so much to investigate:

Here's Ellis and I playing on the slide, I am under there somewhere honest!

Saturday night we went to see the Halfords, Max and I had an earl night and watched Star Wars in bed, awesome!

Sunday we had all of Mum's family round for lunch. Poor old Hayley got wrapped up in a game of hide and seek even though she felt poorly. We ate lots, Dad had his birthday cake early and then we collapsed, tired out:

It's hard work, entertaining!

Monday, and no school because it was half term. We had a super exciting morning giving Dad his birthday cards and some more presents, the best of which by a considerable margin was Mario Kart for the Wii, I love it!!!! We went to call for Alastair.....he was out. I was pretty upset about it, I soon cheered up when we went to Pizza Hut for lunch though, Ice cream factory!

We got hoodwinked into a ridiculously early night.....

.....and then got woken up at 4am to go to Disneyland of all places!!!!

How exciting, here we are on the plane for my first ever flight:

We got off the plane, collected our things in record time form the baggage carousel and then headed off to find the coach to take us to Mickey's place. Two coaches and about an hour later and we were in our Hotel. I'd never stayed in a hotel before so that was all new.

Mum did some important looking things at the desk, Dad and Ned got rid of the bags and then we were on our way in to Disneyland!

We didn't hang about either, we were soon on the rides. Mum's favourite was these cars:

They were noisy and fast, so I wasn't allowed a go. Booo!

Nope, but I got two goes so never mind!

I did really enjoy the rockets though:

We stumbled upon the parade, in my signature move I managed to slip through to the front without any problems. I was befriended by an older lady at the front and she kept an eye on me while Mum and Dad had to crane their necks on tip toes to see what was going on.

Here's my view of the whole thing, well, it was a very early start that day!

I did catch the end mind you:

Here's one of Dad's arty shots:

But probably even better than the rides was the characters roaming around. We saw Winnie the Pooh and all his mates, The Chipmunks, Donald Duck and loads more, we'd only been here a few hours too!

So onto the evening, and my favourite bit of the holiday....Dinner time! We ate in the hotel and they had a self service thing going on where basically you dispense Mum or Dad (or even on occasion Ned if I was really desperate) to go and bring plate after plate of lovely meaty grub to my high chair...brilliant! I ate all sorts, all on one plate, lasagne, ham, chips, sausage, chicken, cucumber, beans and that was before pudding!

Yeah, it was pretty good, I got to have chicken nuggets, sausages and chips every night without getting told off by Mum or Dad. I also got to have three puddings in one bowl!

Then it was off to our room, I got a mssive great bed all to myself:

The advantage of us all being in the same room was that once one of us was up, we were all up!

Before we'd even had breakfast we were out in the park and going to see Buzz Lightyear, to help him overcome Zurg:

Some of us were more help than others, Mum got such a high score there was barely enough digits on the readout!

It was pretty misty, but we'd wrapped up nice and warm:

We had breakfast, even my high chair had mickey ears!

I think I like France, where else in the world is it okay to have a couple of ham sandwiches and a mug of hot chocolate for breakfast?
We went on the small world boat ride, I think we all liked that:

Before Dad and I went on the teacups. They were rubbish, complete rubbish, especially after our mega spin at Legoland the other week. These just didn't compare and Dad had the right hump about it:

The carousel was much better:

Yes it was, I had my own up and down horse and everything:

We bumped into ee-aw. After stroking his bum I thought i'd better introduce myself properly:

We went on Peter Pan's flight, billed as gentle fun for little ones......it was truly terrifying. It was pitch black on the whole, with horrible scary lit up pirate skulls and what have you, all the time suspended in some ghastly flying chariot affair. We both cried to get off!

Here we are eating our 'extended breakfast'

What he means is that Dad was such a squeaker him and mum made sandwiches at tbreakfast and the smuggled them out in the rucksack!!!

We went on a lovely old fashioned sream train all the way around the park:

We went on some fairytale boat ride or another. But what I really liked was my first ever roller coaster which was right next door. I laughed and giggled all the way round.

Halloween was just starting and the park was covered in all these strange pumpkin thingys:

We went on Big Thunder Mountain, the runaway mine train. It was the most exciting ride i've ever been on. I went on with Mum and then took Dad on it, even though I wasn't sure I liked it that much first time round. Both Mum and Dad thought it was brilliant though....

We made our way back to the hotel, got ourselves some cosy chairs and some nice drinks and just sat for a while doing some colouring, it was nice to have a little rest.

Another early start and we were back on it. After a little bit of too-ing and fro-ing we were on Crush's coaster (one of Nemo's friends). Now this I really wasn't sure about, at all. Dad seemed to love it though but there was no way I was going on again and mum had to go on her own!
This was more like it:

I got to have my photo taken with the main man:

We hung out with Guido and Luigi:

We went to see a stunt show too, we sat high up in the stand and I loved the man on the motorbike doing wheelies!

There were cars zooming everywhere, doing jumps and turns, explosions, motorbike jumps, men falling from high roofs and goodness knows what else. I was absolutley captivated by the whole thing and barely said a word for a whole hour. A record for me I think?
We treated ourselves to lunch, a hot dog in fact (last of the big spenders eh?).

We went to see Stitch live. None of us had ever really heard of Stitch before.....I don't now why, he's a brilliant blue Alien! He had his own cinema, all the kids got to sit at the front on the carpet and once Stitch was on screen, he talked to us! We talked back, he even took picture of us on his camera and then turned it round to show us.....it was fantastic. Even the grown ups agreed!

I made my own entertainment by managing to get around the elaborate nappy sealing system to make Mum's lap wet...ha ha!

We even managed to spend a few quid in the gift shop, I took rather a shine to this cuddly Tigger:

And I desperatley wanted a Buzz Lightyear Laser gun.
We headed back to the Hotel once again and then headed out to the swimming pool, I didn't even know they had one!!!!! There was a slide and everything, very agreeable!

So one last binge on the buffet and then off to bed.

We had to get up early the next morning to catch a rather fantastic train to the airport, sadly it wasn't a double decker one like the one on the next platform though.

Then it was back on the plane for another good solid hour or so cuddling session. That was once i'd decided to fill my nappy while we were boarding the plane. Oops. As soon as the seat belt light had gone off Dad decided to make a name for himself by changing my bum at 30,000 feet. He only wants the glamour jobs! The reality was far from glamorous mind you, being changed on a fold down table over an aeroplane toilet by that great lummox was quite a trial....

...as was our mission to get home in time for Shimon's (my friend from school) Halloween party!

We made it...just! Mum stayed with me to join in the fun. We followed a witch who left a trail of jellybean sweets until we found her hide out, where there were loads more sweets to be found! On reflection I was mildly traumatised by the whole thing, as was to be expected.

It didn't stop there either, trick or treat night!

We went out with John and Sarah, Andy, the Halfords and even Owen and Hannah tagged along and we had a great time calling on our frineds and family. Our sweet buckets overflowed (well mine didn't as I only took what I really wanted and didn't want to be greedy).

So saturday was back to normal, we all had a lie in, had a little walk to the shop and kept it very low key......nice!

By sunday we were fully recharged and driving Mum and Dad mad as usual, we had to get out!

We went to Windsor and had a ride on their big wheel in the park:

You could see for miles, and could probably seen even further if it hadn't been so grey and bleak.....never mind!
I decided to make really nervous by trying to burrow out of the pod we were in:

Then we hit the shops, most importantly the toy shop. Great idea, I need a few ideas to give Santa.....

And I got a lovely lovely pair of new shoes, i'm really pleased with them!

Monday then, still no school!

I went to nursery though?

Yes, because Dad and I went to the BMX track in the morning....I had to take him eventually I suppose. We rode well, but I soon called time so we could go home and get a few laps in on Mario Kart. Have I said how much I love Mario Kart before?

I love Mario Kart.

A lot.

My new trick is to say a very giggly 'tickle tickle' and then attack your midriff! Watch out!

Mum was off with us today so there was no BMX track nonsense, just a lovely trip to the park. I met an another Max there, he was older than me but we had a lovely game of football (shhhh, don't tell Dad).

And I got to march about in all the leaves and mud in my brand new shoes without dad having a fit!