Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

I made a triumphant return to trampolining club last Wednesday, we hadn't been for ages. Now most of the older ones have gone off to school i'm one of the bigger ones which means I can bounce the highest. Everyone was impressed with my bouncy-ness.
After not having any reading books for ages from school I got two on one day! Not happy with that at all. I'll put off reading them as long as I can of course.
We went shopping on Thursday and I managed to persuade Dad to buy me a proper grown up sleeping bag all of my own, of course it was nice and pink and I think the much reduced price tag helped to convince him. I am of course really pleased with it and couldn't wait to use it on our forthcoming camping trip.
Yes, a trip away always means home baking so we got busy with the fairy cakes after school. I did it all, even cracking the eggs (much better at that than Dad) and gave them a super powerful Ned stir to make sure they were delicious.
I helped decorate the icing on them!
We went out for a walk after tea and I did lots of 'cat charming' with the local moggies. I love the cats I do.
So it was Friday and we hung around for ages in the school playground after school.
It was a good job Dad and I had spent all afternoon packing then Ned wasn't it. We were off camping to Croyde in Devon.
Brilliant, another chance to go skimboarding. With this in mind I decided to get plenty of shut eye on the way down and was fast asleep by the time we arrived at a pitch black campsite after 9 at night.
I'd had a power nap and was wide awake and ready to 'help' put the tent up.
I woke up just as it was finsished (great timing) and we soon got ourselves tucked up in bed with a good story:

As you can see our quarters were luxurious. Even if the supplementary duvet did cover up my new sleeping bag.
Soon enough it was morning and time for an al fresco breakfast. Boingy bacon for me and crispy for mum.
Weetabix starter and a yoghurt for me.
It was lovely, the sun was out and there was no sea breeze so it felt nice and warm. We headed off for the beach:

I'm not sure why I look so sad in this picture as I loved it on the beach again. Maybe I was brewing up one of my massive Ellis belches?

I had a good old go on the skimboard of course and then once i'd had enough of that I stole Mum's super fast bodyboard and had a go on that. I loved it, it was so fast that i'm not going to let her have it back any time soon,

We did some digging of course:

And collected some water from the sea:

And let Mum indulge in a few close up shots:

I also took Dad on a really long wander around the sand dunes, I love the sand dunes, you can run down the slopes and find some really cool shells. I'm not so keen on the spiky grass mind you and had to be carried a few times.

We headed back to camp for a spot of late lunch before heading off to the swimming pool on site. It was a great pool for us little ones, slides, water jets, rapids and loads and loads of ear piercing shrieking.

There was even a cool flume slide that timed your trip down. I think Owen must have got stuck on his go as the clock finally stopped at 39.99 seconds....the rest of us were down around 14 seconds for comparison.

Swimming done and dusted it was back to the tent for a rest before heading out for the evening. Well the boring grown ups had a rest, we played football with Hannah and Owen:

Once we were done playing football I got into Hannah and Owens tent and told them some of my best jokes.....they lapped them up of course.
Once the oldies were fully rested up we headed off to the pub for tea:

It was a cool walk down behind the sand dunes and through the fields. There was a playground on the way which we quickly explored and we saw a few of the famous Croyde rabbits in their field.

I did really well and managed to stay awake and keep my drink upright all night:

But the sea air had taken it's toll on me, and once I got sat down at the table I zonked out. Right out:

They did just about manage to get me to come round in the end though, just as well, or I would have missed out on pudding:

And here we all are, just look at those scary pink faces, in fact the glare was so bright Andy had to shut his eyes:

I even had enough left in the tank to go and play in the pub garden once the meal was finished:

But Dad couldn't get a photo of my mega swing jump. I was asking him to push me higher and higher and didn't bother to tell him I was going to jump off the swing. So he gave me an almighty push that I wasn't expecting and I leapt off the swing from a great height and plunged to the ground, laughing my head off. I was way over his head height apparently and wanted another go straight away.

We had to walk all the way back to the tent by torchlight which was pretty cool.

Even though I didn't get a carry for aaaaaages.

We were pretty soon all tucked up in bed again and fast asleep.

It was speed breakfast and tidy up on Sunday morning:

As I had two parties to be at back home from 2 o'clock onwards!

Yeah, I was not happy about that I can tell you. I wanted another day down the beach, but no, we had to come home for stinking Ellis.

I slept nearly all the way home so i'd be radiant for my afternoon shift. We got home and it was a quick shower and change and then me and Mum hit the party circuit. First up was Ella's from nursery and then Leo's (which we were quite late for, sorry!) I enjoyed them both very much and came home with loads of cake and goodies. Happy birthday to both of you.

And while all this was going on? Dad and I made Panacotta and I helped him do the veg for tea. We also ploughed through my new favourite book from the school library, it's called 'Looking at history-from cavemen to the present day' The book itself is pretty historical as it dates from 1963. There was also a little bit of football thrown in for good measure in the garden and a good dose of lazing about on the sofa.

So that was our action packed weekend done and dusted, there's only one piece of super exciting news to divulge...Luca joined in for the first time ever during Stretch and Grow at nursery.