Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Finally, after nearly a year of empty promises, Alastair came round to play! Dad's fears were unfounded, we were really good and played very nicely. We even settled a dispute about who was going to wear the princess dress in a very amicable fashion, I got first go and Alastair had to make do with being a power ranger until it was time to swap over:

Yes, they were so good I even managed to sleep while they were here. I love Ned's friends and make sure I can say all their names properly. I got to have my tea with them, they seemed to like that:

We took Alastair home, climbing trees on the way like proper boys!
So waiting for Ned outside school is still fun, we never know just how much 'art' he's going to come out with.
Yeah, I need to get that offloaded quick smart so I can get up into the playground to see who I can entice for some after hours play. Shimon normally obliges.
Which means i'm allowed out of the buggy to play with his little brother, Yannick. They've got a really smart play kitchen, I rustled up a baked strawberry with a microwaved onion on toast. bet Heston would struggle to match that!
Dad has been picking me up from nursery on the bike now and again which is great. He took me via the Fire Station, but as i'm not a boy i'm not bothered about nee-nah's like Ned used to be. I was much more interested in Victoria Park though, we stopped for a play before carrying on home along the canal. We spotted Owen and Hannah enjoying a coffee in the window of Costa so gave them a a few hundred waves, I repeated his name over and over again pretty much all the way home. It was only nearly all the way home as I nodded off.....
I went to Shimon's for tea on Friday night, came home absoloutley exhausted and pretty much didn't murmur a word before turning in for the night.
So then, a most unusual weekend, we didn't go anywhere. What a shocker. We did loads of art until Mum almost had a nervous breakdown:

I can't understand why she got so stressed really:

She didn't even like my legs when i'd coloured them in with a pink highlighter!
Dad spent an hour or so preparing a vegetable patch (the size of a bath towel) and invited the entire family out to help plant the carrot seeds he'd bought. He then proceeded to get the right hump when the seeds weren't sown in the exact fashion the packet stipulated, oops! I'm sure they'll be okay.....not that I care, I can take or leave carrot's anyway!
We did finally get to leave the house to pay Marny a visit. She was very small, and very quiet! For now anyway.....
Day two of the weekend started with yet more art and then sofa diving action:

I even found a quid behind the cushions, but don't bother any of you saying it's yours as I already bought a kinder egg with it!
It was James' party on Sunday afternoon.
I got to gate crash again, it's great having an older brother.
I won the first prize that the entertainer gave out, a lollipop, and got picked by James as one of the two people he wanted to sit next to at tea time. Check me out, sucessful AND popular! The party bag was nothing short of legendary either. It had a red arrow glider, a set of animal stickers, chocolate, jelly sweets, a bubble blower thing and a bit of cake, top marks.
I pulled my best hard done by face at home time and James' mum found me one too.
So it was my second to last swimming lesson this week, we got our reports from the instructors, mine said:
A good swimmer. Very confident and has worked well in passing this stage. Will need to work on his kicking next term but the basic correct movements are all there.
Good work Ned, keep it up!
Not bad, but even better was that we got to have a proper play in the pool. We paddled the mats and had a load of goes on the slide too.
On top of all that I dazzled with my new found arithmetic and reading skills tonight, that pleased Mum no end.
Me? What have I achieved this week I hear you ask....well I managed to fall over just outside the nursery gate and smack my forehead on the ground resulting in a lovely hair clogging scab and then today I managed to get my finger stuck in a radiator at nursery. resulting in a reasonable amount of force needed to free me. Still, I bounce back!

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