It's school holiday time already! We broke up on Friday afternoon, Shimon came round for tea and play.
Yes, Leo had already been round for a while by the time we had to come and get you two from school, we'd been playing with all your Lightning McQueen cars and giving Dad a nice quiet time of it.
Yeah well Shimon and I soon put a halt to all that! Oh, and thanks very much to Laura for her super prompt sponsor money delivery.
Saturday and we actually had a proper day out, it's been a while! We went to the railway:
Yep, we got our tickets and even though the train wasn't going to leave for another 20 minutes, Ned thought it would be best for us to get on and get sat down straight away:
We waited......
...and waited......
Until we finally moved off, I could barely contain my joy to be moving at last:
You wouldn't have said that if we'd missed it would you? I like to be sure.
We rode along the track and it was all very good, if a bit light on tunnels.
We did see plenty of sheep and the like though...baaaaa!
There was even a playground at one stop half way along:
There was a special guest on board the train, a dragon called Idris. Apparently this particular dragon lives in Ivor the engines firebox. He must like the warm! I'd we'd never heard of Ivor or this Idris, but apparently it was popular back when mum and dad were young.....anyway, we really liked Idris and his frequent visits up and down the carriage.
We even sat and ate our picnic on the move, how cool was that? Watching the countryside roll by, eating sarnies and sausage rolls!
When we got back the station, Ivor himself was doing short rides up and down the track in his brake van. I asked the man if I could wave the green flag to get him moving and he said yes:
I loved all that responsibility!
I didn't, I though you and mum were off forever, never to return, I was glad to see you come back again:
I loved standing on the bridge with all the other spotters:
Especially when Ivor went underneath, covering us up with a cloud of steam and smoke:
Mum and I stayed put and kept our distance from the anoraks:
But we relented in the end, even I loved noisy, steamy Ivor puffing away!
Once we got home, dad got youtube going and we watched a good few episodes of Ivor the Engine, I loved it!
On sunday we had a flying visit from uncle Slim, he thought out chocolate cake making looked really good...but was glad to get out clean I think! We had Grandad and Anne and Alan and Hayley round for lunch and to enjoy my chocolate cake. I was glad to get lunch out of the way so I could get Hayley up into my bedroom to play, sadly Alan came too......
Monday then, first day of the holidays, and I was off to spend the morning with the Halfords. Great! I took some convincing that we should go out up the woods but once I was knee deep in mud, well over the top of my wellies I knew it was the way forward!
I'm still going to nursery so i'm missing out on all the fun.
Today with the Halfords it was a trip to Donnington castle, on the trail of a wicked witch, we found a bit of her broom! In the afternoon it was Alastairs party, hooray!
It was at the school hall and they had an entertainer. My old friend Ted was there who I haven't seen since leaving nursery:
We played parachute games:
Dad had to pretend to be a jellyfish (very good he was too), but he got away lightly compared to Alastair's dad, who wee'd himself in front of everyone:
I went along too, had a great time, but please excuse my fashion nightmare of clashing colours:
There were party games, food, dancing and magic tricks too. The complete afternoon I reckon?
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