Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Sports day went ahead last Wednesday, rain didn't stop play thats for sure, it was a hot afternoon. We had to shelter under our gazebo's between races (i'm on the left in the blue):

My first race was the egg and spoon. As you can see, Maya helped her egg to stay on with a little help from her thumb:

I wish i'd thought of that! I was doing okay, until my shoe came off half way down the track. Maybe demanding a size 12 wasn't such a good idea after all?

I quite liked watching the racing, but I prefered playing on the playground with the other litle sisters a lot more.

I had a second race, the obstacle race. Once again a lost shoe cost me dear. Oh well, I enjoyed it all the same and gave everyone a laugh:

We were all very proud of our teacher Miss Stephenson when she broke ranks during the teachers 'walking' race and sprinted for the finish line:

I got my turn in the toddlers race, and of course i was dynamite, mum couldn't keep up:

I won, well, I sort of won. I mean, I would have won if i'd realised where the finish line was. There was a photo finish but it's inconclusive.

There was of course a parents race too, there were so many willing Mum's they had to have two heats:

Mum didn't win, but she certainly didn't let herself down either.

Dad fared less well in his race, he suffered the same cruel fate as me and lost a shoe half way up the track......

I did tell them both that I was very proud of them for having a go.
Seeing as Mum was off work for the afternoon, I got to finish school a bit early and it was nice and hot we had to go to the outdoor pool after sports day was done and dusted. Truth be told i'd rather have watched Scooby Doo....

....I wouldn't, I loved the pool last time and couldn't wait to go with Mum and Ned. I really enjoyed it, jumping, floating, splashing and wrapping myself up in a towel and having a snooze on a bench.

To tell the truth I rather enjoyed it too in the end, but don't tell anyone. Especially Dad launching me up into the air for a big splashdown.
And then it was last day of term, last day of the school year. No more year 1 for me.

Here's all the assorted art work I produced over the year:

I was pretty pleased with my output.

Onto weekend business then, Saturday was big day. First off we had a barbecue at Snelsmore with Hugo, Matice and Luca as well as Alastair and Emily:

We played rounders (I was rather good at bowling), we played football, we climbed trees and we took it in turns to jump my bike over the ramp as well as indulging in a little game of chicken:

While the bigger boys were doing that, us littler ones were leaping form the picnic table:

We ate sausages of course, and crisps.

But best of all we ate the chocolate brownies Dad and I had made on friday afternoon. They were truly delicious and I took great pleasure in telling everyone I had made them when they were saying how lovely they were!

As if that wasn't enough excitement for one day it was Abi's birthday party at teh pub in the evening.

Of course, when it was cake time, we were close at hand:

Sunday we went to see Grandad and Anne. We had a lovely dinner out in the garden and then I helped Grandad water pretty much every single plant in his garden whether it needed it or not with a great big watering can.

I sat and read my cool new books they had got me, one about all the things that live under the sea and another about how the world is made up.

We went for a walk in the afternoon to see some chickens in the field, they were quite difficult to count as they kept moving around, but we think there was 8.

Grandad and Mum were showing us all sorts of things in the hedgerows, blackcurrants, hazel nuts and rabbit burrows:

So first day of the school holidays proper on Monday, I went to nursery as usual.

And I went to Dragon club which is right next door. Which means I got to wave at Ellis through the fence! Hugo is going this week to, so that's been brilliant. We baked biscuits (ate them all before home time), I won the 'Super Dragon' award for a poster I made (which means a lollypop prize and loads of other stuff. All the ladies couldn't believe how big and grown up I am since last year.

In the afternoon, we went to the BMX Track, my first time on my own bike:

I was raring to go, and after Dad helped me down for the first time I was well away:

I loved going really fast over the bumps.

I hadn't been for a while either and was soon back up to speed:

But no matter how fancy and shiny my new helmet is, it's certainly very hot, making it thirsty work:

We came home and watched a cartoon film about a horse called Spirit, I loved it.

And I fell asleep.

Today was Dragon club again, it was space day today, so I made a smart UFO, yet more biscuits and had my face painted as a skeleton!

We had Stretch and Grow at nursery which is absoloutley my favourite. Ned and Hugo wiggled their bums at us through the fence again and I showed off my brilliant new picture i've drawn for my peg.

Dad picked me up first and we went to Waitrose for cake supplies. We also had a visit to the fish counter and the lady behind the counter spent ages showing me all the fish and their markings and their fins and everything. I lapped it all up. They even had dressed crabs on the counter. i love crab. I've never had it, but I love it anyway.

In the afternoon we finally got to go to the park we sometimes see when we're in the car along the A4 towards Hungerford. We had a good old explore and decided we really rather liked it, especially the funny exercise machines.

Todays film was Alvin and the chipmunks!

I still love it.

And I fell asleep. Again.