I finished off my week with auntie Christine in fine style in a whirlwind of pooh sticks, aborted trips to Krazy Klub, cake baking and film watching....lovely. Best of all I got to stay the night on thursday! It's the forst time i've ever stayed away from Mum and Dad and I wasn't worried at all. I think Auntie Christine was hoping that she'd get a lie in of I stayed over...unlucky! I woke up rather early actually, but it just so happens there was a tv in the bedroom.....result, I may have snoozed off again. So on Friday we headed for Mudeford for a day out at the sea side. We collected stones (one of my favourite hobbies), bought myself a toy lizard and even went on the boat over to the island (which I always ask to do and get told no by Mum and Dad). Uncle Ian drove us in his lovely big comfy car and on the way home we called into a Motor Museum where I sat in the biggest chair in the world. Hopefully one day we'll manage to aquire the pictures that Auntie Christine took during my week and upload them on here at some point.
So, thanks very much for a great week Auntie Christine, I really had a great time!
I should add that I got quite used to Ned not being about actually, for one thing I could abandon our sleep rota and sleep as often and as long as I liked which was nice.
What wasn't so nice was being dragged out of bed at silly o'clock on Saturday morning to go to Devon! Once we arrived and I realised that we were going camping at the seaside I was more than happy about it though. We met up with Owen, Hannah, Andy, Kin, Melissa, Yanna and Fen who had already toughed it out for a night throught the howling wind and lashing rain. By teh time we had arrived the sun was out though...ha ha!
Once everything was set up we had a lovely picnic:
And a bit of a walk around the (otherwise deserted) field:
Of course all this outdoor living meant outdoor nappy changes:
We got our kids only tent sorted out pretty pronto too:
Then it was time to hit the beach, mum got a close up in:
I refused to wear my wetsuit, it's so short in the body they obviously never want to be grandparents. Wetsuit or not I was on a surfing mission and couldn't wait to get amongst 'em. I amazed Dad with my new found wave riding skills (not shown in the video later on, I won't perform on camera).
We had a barbecue for tea, overlooking the bay as the sun went down, how lovely and then all too soon it was bedtime....I wasn't ready to go bed and had plenty left in the tank:
Even though I soon nodded off in the tent.
Ellis was sharing with Mum which meant me and dad were in together. I wanted to stay up until he came to bed but wasn't allowed. They'd forgotten to bring us any books so I had him make me up a story and tell me twice!
I woke up with Mum along side me and told her quite clearly 'I wake up now' as I sat bolt upright on the airbed (thanks Hannah, you would have thought someone would have checked ours for punctures before we left eh?)
And I awoke to find Dad had finally slithered into our tent later on in the night too. We listened to a little bit of Frank Turner on Dads mp3 player before having a bit of a Beetlebum singalong, which Mum could hear aparently.
We got up, the sun was out again and after we'd had breakfast we chased some rabbits around the field, the best incident being the one we cornered around the bins, leaping over my foot!
Yanna nd I rolled off down the hill in the kids tent:
We played a little bit of cricket:
And then it was back down the beach for digging, more surfing, sliding down the sand dunes on my bodyboard and a rather ill advised adventure for Fen and I off over the dunes..oops, never mind we got back okay in the end.
After all that effort, it was time for a lie down:
So that was my first camping adventure, we all had a really lovely time, thanks everyone! Hope we can go again soon.....
So after a late trip home sunday night after we finally dragged ourselves away from the seaside it was soon enough Monday morning. Something new again this week though and it was Dragon club for me (which is in the school right next to Ellis' nursery). I was a little cautious on the way in, but I had no need to be. By the time Mum left all she got was a wave from the far end of the playground....
We did face painting ( a cheetah for me), scooter riding, all sorts. I had a great time and when Dad came to pick me up I let him know quite clearly that I wanted to stay for the afternoon session too! He explained that I could go all this week and all next week which I thought was a fair compromise really. I also won the most coveted 'Super Dragon' award on my forst day there! Today we had a visit from a Birds of Prey man, he had a big old Owl and a Red Kite for us to see, so that was rather good, when Dad and Ellis arrived we were making and flying paper aeroplanes indoors.....ha ha!
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