Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Slightly odd one this week as the photographer has been on strike, so no pictures i'm afraid!
Thats not striclty true, we have actually done a lot of this weeks newsworthy and notable activities out of the reach of the camera. As Ned was still on school holidays, I had to let him come trampoling with me on Wednesday once he was finished at dragon club.
Yeah, I loved it too. I can't believe Ellis gets to go bouncing while i'm at school. How is that fair? Anyway, I bounced the highest of everyone, although I was trying so hard to go high I struggled to stay on the middle of the trampoline and was a little bit all over the place to begin with. I soon had it under control though and was pulling some cool moves.
I was a bit shy to begin with this week but soon got up to speed, watching Ned was a real help and he gave me a few pointers.
The games we all played together at the end were brilliant too, except for cat and mouse where I was much to fast as a cat for the little ones (more of a Cheeetah perhaps?). I'm looking forward to more school holidays so I can go again thats for sure.
Once we got home, Ellis crashed out asleep, so Dad and I had a roaring success making some chocolate chip shortbread.
It had to happen one day of the holidays didn't it? Dad came to get me too early from Dragon Club on Thursday. We'd been put into teams and had been designing and making padding for an egg all morning, the aim being that we would drop them from a wall to see if we could stop them breaking. Sadly testing was carried out in the afternoon so I missed everything! That day we'd been chalking drawings of dragons on the floor, when Dad got there I asked him if he could see mine. He had a quick look and identified the single large orange dragon as being my work....I don't know how he did it so quickly, except that my trousers were now a patchy shade of orange.
My last day at Dragon club then, and this was the big one...the Pizza Hut trip! I'd been looking forward to this all week and the day was finally here. We went in a minibus, I got to sit at the back and we had Cheryl Cole on the radio...perfect! It was buffet lunch so I helped myself to three full slices of pizza (with tomato sauce, I actually decided I like it after all) and then two nice big bowls of ice cream factory, heavily loaded with sweets of course. Highlight of my week!
Anyway, we had to go and pick him up late while he was stuffing his face, so we took Mum shopping for a pair of jeans in town. Much as I liked 'helping' Mum in the changing rooms, I soon grew tired of it and fell asleep in my buggy. We then made our way to pick Ned up and went to the carwash. I loved it, all the rollers and squirting water everywhere....well, until Ned decided he wasn't too sure about it.
Well, I was sat in the front and they do all rather come at you! Once the car was sparkly and clean we headed to the aquarium shop. Haven't been there for ages so it was actually surprisingly entertaining. I pointed out some catfish amongst other things to Dad, think he was pretty impressed with my knowledge.
I'd never been there before so I really loved it, there were some really pretty fishes and some really fast ones too.
I asked if we could have a fish tank for home, of course the request was declined.
So it was onto the weekend then and for my benefit it was a trip to the Oasis for swimming on Saturday morning. Ned gets to go every week so it's only fair I get to go once in a while. I had a great time, I loved getting battered by the wave machine and when Ned did his usual swimming charge for the rope accross the middle of the pool I gave chase....and gave a pretty good account of myself (armbands on of course). I actually surprised myself with how far I went under my own steam.
The best thing about the Oasis is of course the slides and I made sure we had plenty of goes on all of them before showing Mum what i'd learned on my recent lessons..she was very impressed.
We headed home for lunch (Tomato soup, bread, pepperami for me) and a dose of Olympic action. I've decided that Hugo and I are going to be Bobsledders when we're bigger, we're both really fast runners. We only have the nationality issue to resolve as I suppose he could compete for France?
Saturday night and we were going to Andy's...yay, much excitment! The grown ups sat downstairs and had to eat their tea while Ned, Abi, Faye and I got to go up and sit on Andy's bed to watch films.
We watched Snow Buddies which featured talking dogs in the snow (so was right up my alley) and then Toy Story 2. A top quality night out, even managed to get downstairs just in time for a spot of pudding...yum.
Sunday, we did nothing, nothing at all. So it was a good job Uncle Slim popped round for a brief visit, even if I did say I didn't like him (what a whopping great fib that was).
Back to school then after a week off, I wasn't that upset to be going back though really. it was good to see my friends again after all.
I'm spending more and more time in Butterflies room at nursery these days. I really love it as all the bigger kids are in there and their toys are so much better to play with, what with the computers, camera's and pretend fully equipped kitchen amongst the other things like the extensive dressing up wardrobe.
It was of course back to swimming lessons and I was really up for it this week. I did really well and we even had to go and do some swimming in the big pool. It was freezing in there though and the little pool felt like a hot tub when we came back.