Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

So I rounded out my holiday time with Max nearly two weeks ago on wednesday. It's been lovley, we had our ups and downs but Emma's made sure we've had plenty to do and places to go so a big thanks there!
Yup, at least it was the last time I had to leave the boys to play while I had to go to nursery. Still, I shouldn't complain, i'm loving nursery at the moment!
Thursday I had a day with Auntie Christine. We managed to do so much Dad reckons it must have been two days and Uncle Ian reckons that she was so tired that evening she had an early night! Thanks Auntie Christine, it was great fun.
So then, Friday was a bank holiday, no work, no nursery and no sunshine! A quick venue change change for Carol's birthday to the bowling alley:


Good job I had a big enough cake for the job:


Here I am looking for seconds, sat next to Max, I like Max, I can say his name really nicely:


Plenty more birthday action for us too, Emma's 40th party followed on on saturday!!!!
(after an afternoon visit from Sue and Charlotte!).
Owen and I won a few quid on the fruity:


'The boys' had a three hour wrestling match outside on the cricket pitch before sneaking in to watch some truly embarassing 'Mum dancing'

Before I succumbed to the music and threw a few shapes with my sister:


We stayed up sooooo late I had to wear a disguise in case wee willie winkie came round to check if we were in bed or not:

So a big night out with a gone 1am finish, what better preparation for a drive down to Cornwall?
Dad managed to get his sorry hungover self downstairs to load up the car so we could hit the road. Mum drove which was all a bit odd....
There was a lot of sleeping done in the car on the way down but I did manage to wake up just in time to hear the sat nav get very confused with the new junction, she does it every year, you'd think she'd learn?
Anyway, we were soon in sunny Cornwall, great! We wasted no time cracking the boule out while Dad unpacked the car:

Once the wetsuits were found we were off down the beach for a dip in the sea, it was a little cold but great fun all the same.
Dad had promised me gallons and gallons of hot chocolate on holiday if we were cold after going in the sea, We sat around looking pathetically chilled for long enough:

So he kept his side of the bargain, we're so classy I even had a saucer:


Once we were warmed up we made the most of the evening sunshine and went out for a lovely walk:

Here I am in a rare outing in the buggy, i've decided i'd much rather walk whenever possible now.
Mum and I had our own private beach for the evening:



And I found a nice little set of steps to jump down, again, and again, and again....


We found some dandelion clocks to blow:

Even if I did end up either breathing them in or blowing them over the back of Ned's head!
Then it was bed time, now you see me:


Now you don't:

I had a bit of troubled nights sleep with a touch of ear ache, Dad said it was surfers ear and nothing to worry about......I managed to pull a bed swap and got in with Mum, Dad sloped off to the single bed in with Ellis. Must have been a squeeze, thanks Dad.
I was quite surprised to see him there in the morning thats for sure!
So then it was my actual birthday! Yay. I'm now five! Yes five. can you believe it? Even more unbelieveable is that i've got a DS with Mario Kart! On top of all that, we had been visited by the easter bunny and had to have the egg hunt in the caravan. How much excitment can a boy have in one day?

And this is how I spent the early part of the day. I played on the old surfers ear condition to make sure i got plenty of time with my beloved new toy and my easter goodies. I did finally give in and decide we should go to Crealy:

The horses had chocolate eggs in their ears again! Winner.

I loved the indoor bits in particular:

Yeah so did I, the weather was pretty grim so I suggested we leave and get off down to the pub for some eats!

Good idea Ned, i'll have a carvery, a big carvery:

And i'll have sausage and chips:

Followed by a game on the shooting machine:

And then a surprise birthday cake (no. 2) when we got back to the caravan:

The weather was much better on Tuesday so it was off to Polzeath:

I'm really loving climbing the rocks this year as you can see from the above picture.

I'm really not loving sandy, lukewarm sausage rolls that I have to finish before i'm allowed an ice cream though:

I'm loving just about everything, water, sand, digging....

.....and shouting at sea-gulls to scare them off under Ned's carefull guidance:

Wafting my net in the rockpools is also good, even if I don't really know what i'm supposed to be doing with it:

We had ice creams (eventually) and then we headed for home again. Dad was enticed into the sea at Harlyn on the way back though, so Mum, Ellis and I had an impromptu frisbee session which was great fun.

When we got back to the caravan Dad fired up the barbecue for tea, lovely, what a perfect summer day out in April!

What a perfectly miserable April day on wednesday, it lashed it down. We stayed in, had an enormous cooked breakfast and played games until the rain finally eased up enough for us to sneak out onto the beach for a walk and a dig.

The sun was back out on Thursday so it was more beachtime.

We finished off with an evening walk along the cliffs on the other side of the bay and trip thorough the dunes:

Gary was packing his shop up for the night when we made our way back so i helped him fold up his tarpaulin sheets. He reckoned I was a real expert and paid me for my work with a Chupa-Chup. When I grow up, I think i'd like to work for Gary.....

Andy turned up on friday, hooray, we love Andy.

He went for an early surf with Dad meaning Ned and I could get in bed with mum for a lovely cuddly lie in!

We went to Crealy with John and Sarah in the afternoon, I was finally allowed to ride a horse alone:

We kept the grown ups captive in the castle:

here I am checking one of the escape routes:

Mum, Andy, Sarah and I went on the log flume:

The independant panel all agreed that Mum got wettest!

She dried out in time for a cuddle though

We headed back to the caravan via the chippy and then sat and ate them outside, lovely.
Then it was all inside for a three way Mario Kart DS frenzy, brilliant:

We spent Saturday morning on Constantine beach, it was lovely:

Before heading back to Treyarnon for a cream tea, enjoying the legendary hospitality at the Youth Hostel.

In the evening we went rockpool fishing. Dad and I headed for the deep water and big climbs only to be shown up by Mum who caught a fish almost immeadiatley in the smallest pool i've ever seen. Suitably impressed we adjusted our technique and added another couple to the evenings tally before heading back to the van via the more direct rocky route for the first time ever.

So soon enough it was Sunday, our last day...booo!

It was another glorious day so we hit the beach. A special thanks to Jean (Andy's mum) for helping us out with the sun cream, much appreciated.

I decided to really get into surfing, I caught a few good waves with another couple of lads my age. I much happier about going on the sea after my swimming lessons!

I found another little girl to play with, Rose. We dug, we splashed, we sat up on the rocks with Ned, it was really quite nice.

Yeah, I think we've both missed our friends a bit to be honest.

So that was our week done, never mind, it'll soon be August and we can go back!

Mum was off work Monday morning, we had a lie in and then had to go to the shop for some basic provisions. Dad was on duty in the afternoon, we lazed about until Grandad and Anne came round with my birthday present! My birthday seems to have lasted for ever this year!

Yeah, doesn't it just!

Laura came round as well later on, with some more presents and an easter egg! Brilliant.

For the first time I said 'night night Daddy' and 'Night night Mummy' at the appropriate time to the right person last night, they seemed to like that.

So tuesday and everything really was back to normal, I was back to nursery and marched in like I owned the place! I really enjoyed hunting for bugs while were outside, even though the ladies at nursery weren't that keem on having worms handed to them!

And I was back to school. There's new stuff in the playground which is most exciting. I was quite happy to be back, if a bit tired by this afternoon.......

Oh, and one final note, I lost my last remaining muzzy on holiday and i'm having to resort to Ellis' pink ones to get my fix now. If anyone has one I may have left behind at any point in the past, you know where I am!