Hmmm, there's been a bit of bad behaviour at our respective educational establishments lately...
I've followed in the footsteps of Ned and caused a minor flood with the taps in the nursery toilet.
And i've been involved in a little bit of horseplay that has gained the attention of the headteacher...oops. Never mind, i've broken up for a week now so it'll all be forgotten by the time we go back I hope.
Dad took us to the library on saturday morning...by bike!
It was great fun, it was raining quite hard so there were loads of puddles to splash through on the way. Even better than that though was the subway at the police station roundabout, most exciting.
Once dad had paid all his fines we picked some books and battled our way back home through the grey wetness to get Mum reading them.
Abi and faye came round on Saturday night. Abi and I had a great time, charging around the house.
Yeah, thanks for making the extra puddings Andy!
We escaped for a bit on Sunday afternoon, to the castle. Who should be there? the Halford boys! We gave Leo a hard time, he loved though and kept coming back for more:

I made another strong fashion statement in the Autumn sunshine:

And I posed on the wall:

So, first day of the holidays, Mum has the week off so no nursery for Ellis either. We made Dad birthday cards!

I didn't know it was supposed to be a secret Ned, sorry.....ooops.

We happened to bump into Hugo and his mum as well, so we arranged a trip to the big park up the hill for the afternoon. Brilliant, we had a great time and didn't really do anything that we were told...ha ha!

I went to nursery today, so I was glad to see my own friends really.

Yeah, and Mum and I went to Reading on the train to see Fantastic Mr Fox at the cinema....I loved it so much I didn't want to leave as I wanted to sit and watch it again! We got the book from the library on saturday so I can't wait to get stuck into that!

Okay, i've decided i'm big enough to ride my scooter to school to meet ned in the afternoons, he doesn't like having to walk home while I glide along much hey ho. I did have something of an incident in the playground though involving a gentle slope and a large plate glass window. Luckily, being a school and all that I expect it's toughened glass so no serious damage was done.
It was colours week at nursery last week, we had pink, blue, green, and red days covered but yellow was proving to be a little problematic. Still, with Auntie Christine on the case I had this to wear:

Very yellow and very smiley, just the job.
Yes and she also had a baloon modelling kit with stickers and shoes and what have you, I loved it and modelled my first creation on Ellis, the likeness is stunning:

I also got half a pussycat to wear with my party dresses over the winter, very swish:

And a set of pumpkin decorations for Halloween, here I am, modelling a rather scary mouth:

Thursday was my first parents evening in year 1. My teacher told Mum and Dad that she had been looking forward to having me in her class since my visits while I was still in foundation because of my cheery disposition and enthusiasm....I wonder, where on earth do I get that from? Anyway, i'm doing well by all accounts, result. Even more so, Andy looked after us while they went out, we played Monopoly...he is very brave......

Friday was harvest festival assembly at school. Mum and Ellis came along this year which was great. I loved doing it all, especially having the bright lights on the stage. I think there may be some video later on actually.....

Friday afternoon we made the most of the autumn sunshine without the whingeing and arguing that Ned and Max have bought to the woods with us on recent outings, it was most refreshign without them:

So the weekend then, and after Mum was up half the night being sick, any planned events for saturday were a bit of a non starter, Mum took to the sofa, so she was good for an endless supply of 'on tap' cuddles and Dad did his best by taking us to the shops (I just don't know where his inspiration comes from sometimes).

Actually, we had a proper mission at the shop, materials for school 'countries' project...more of that later.

We got a book each too, I got a Noddy sticker book.....

....and I got a Doctor who 'making' book. Dad made the Sonic Screwdriver that was in there, it took him hours to finish and he reckons it was the single most difficult and complicated thing he has ever assembled....ha ha!

Sunday then and poor old Mum had no chance of any further rest, the other three of use were desperate to get out somewhere....Legoland would do the trick. Our last visit before it closes down for the winter.

I love all the little men:

And finally, I was brave enough to tell the man I was 6 and get on the big cars for a drive. I loved it and did really well. I made sure I paid attention to the traffic lights and road junctions:

My project then:

Flags all drawn by me, stuck into a map of the world on a pinboard. I even got really brave and drew the Australian flag, which was much much harder than Japan!

Went to pick Ned up the other day, it was chucking it down, Dad got my wellies, I was so excited I thought I was going to burst....I ran out into the street and splashed in every single puddle I could find, it was brilliant. I refused to wear a coat of any kind either and got proper soaked through, still, never mind, a bit of rain never hurt anyone:

I've been full of jibber jabber at nursery and the ladies keep on telling Dad how entertaining I am when he comes to get me. I even had a day in the biggest kids room on Friday, I loved that but didn't want to go back in with the little ones on Monday.
My other big news story of the week is my invention of the pig rabbit creature. I've not gone as far as gene-splicing or anything like that as yet, but I have done hopping across the floor, twitching my nose and snorting in the style of a pig rabbit. Everyone seems to find it really funny?
I've also been talking to Grandad on the phone and telling him all what we've been getting up to lately:

This is all well and good Ellis but you haven't done the 'out and about' section yet have you? Well, we haven't really got much to report to be honest. After months of lobbying and several petitions delivered to Downing Street we finally got our trip to JJ's. It was every bit as enjoyable as we'd bulit it up to be, the icing on the cake was being allowed to stay for lunch there too...just brilliant.

In the evening Alan, Hayley and Andy came round, they bought masses of crisps and drinks with them so Ellis and I did a good long shift of passing the nibbles round (for a nominal handling fee of course) before getting packed off to bed.

Sunday then, grey, wet, miserable and that was just Dad, the weather wasn't much better either! We stayed in, we played with our toys, so neglected over the summer, we dressed up, we built tents from furniture and I ate as much as I could get down my neck. A good day....

As it had stopped raining today, Ned was keen to go to the park after school. I didn't want to ride on the bacl of Dad's bike and couldn't get on with my proper bike so it was time to scoot to the park onboard the Postman Pat scooter. I did really well and got quite a speed up:

I knew the boys would be at the park on such a nice day, thats why I was so keen to go, here I am with Joe and Ben, climbing trees and singing 'I like to move it, move it'

I've finally got a chair for my desk. I've had a desk for ages, it's great as a dumping ground or as a launch pad for leaping onto my bed but it hasn't been too great as a desk without a chair. Mum spotted this one at work in the sale (while she was selling furniture by all accounts?)

It's spot on, so I can get creative in style from now on!
The weekend then, I went off to play with Abi, all on my own. Well, Mum took me round and then left me, it was so lovely to play with proper girls toys rather than all of Ned's old stuff. We had a lovely time and I can't wait to return the favour and have Abi round to our house sometime soon.
While Ellis was off Dad and I had a lightning quick trip to the park on the bikes and then got home to meet up with Mum. We went to Sainsbury's, everytime we go there it's sunny and the car park glistens with fairies! We didn't have a pound coin so we couldn't take a trolley down the ramp and had to make do with a basket. I managed to aquire this years halloween outfit, a long sought after skeleton suit.
We were all back together for the afternoon which featured rather a lot of slouching about and dozing.....our speciality!
It was soon excitment o'clock though as Auntie Trish was babysitting, yay! After a frenzy of gymnastics we dispensed with Mum and Dad and set about securing our latest night for ages.
I managed to stay awake pretty late....
But not as late as me, I was still up, chattering away when Mum and dad got back at 11:20, a new record (outside of New Years eve parties).
Sunday, understandably was a low key affair, after lunch we headed off for a walk, well, they did, I had a top up kip:

I didn't walk either, I rode my bike, just for a change. We went to the park at Wash Common, Mum hadn't been before so I had to show her what was what:

Slides of course:

...and me:

Big swingy thing:

Small swingy thing (i'm in there honest):

And then this afternoon we made jam tarts:

I prepared them with all the care and attention of a top Masterchef contestant, we even made a topping for them with some whipped cream and icing sugar...they were fantastic!

I had a yoghurt instead.....make of that what you will.....