We built an obstacle course at nursery on Wednesday outside in the garden. I had to get the grown ups to help me move some of the bits of apparatus. I'm very strong of course, but not quite strong enough.
When we went to pick Ned up from school and Ben's Mum had seen that mornings harvest festival performance, she said Ned was very good in it!
Hmmm, well I had been practicing for months at home. I also made everyone a personalised notebook at breakfast club. They all seemed very pleased with them. Dad got a special one with lined paper and used it to make his shopping list.
The cat decided that my loving was a little bit too full on again and issued me with a warning scratch. I cried like hell but we were friends again before tea time.
I took my shield to school on Thursday, everyone was very impressed with my effort, Mrs Douglas wanted me to keep it at schol for a bit but I was having none of that and took great pleasure marching out into the playground with it after school.....I had to give it to Dad pretty quick mind you, it's quite large and rather heavy.
I also got commended on my Thursday harvest festival performance by Noah and George's Mum.
Mum came to see the harvest festival show on Friday, she loved it of course. I got stung by stinging nettles playing in the grounds after school, but Alastair fetched me a doc leaf in record time, what a good mate!
We had a team lay in on Saturday morning, before getting up and heading to the races.
We hadn't been for ages, so it was all rather exciting, we loved watching the horses go around the parade ring:

But the racing wasn't nearly as cool as the army being there. I shot a paintball gun:

I had a go with a real sword:

We saw Montgomery's old car from the war and talked to the man that looks after it:

I tried on a pilots helmet:

And we took on the obstacle course:

And I beat Ned everytime (even though he did help me up and through the high bits):

I also beat him at the laser clay pigeon shooting (with a little help from Dad, well the gun was very heavy).

But what was super cool was driving the bomb disposal robot, forget robot wars:

Dad finally got a winner so we spent all his profit on sweets:

We had a trip to the Sainsbury's on Sunday morning for some Halloween stuff, it was far more exciting than it really should have been.......

And then in the afternoon we went up to the Wash Common park on the bikes. I met up with my friends Maxim and Ruby from school.

I reminisced about my old bike, it looks pretty small these days:

I rode it with no stabilisers again for a bit but I really can't see what all the fuss is about and got them put back on again.

Monday then, half term, so Mum was at home with us for the morning. It's lovely, we stay in our pyjama's for ages, play with our toys and eat a long leisurely breakfast:

By the time Dad got home at lunchtime we were ready for a bit of action so demanded that he take us to the BMX track. He obviously didn't take much persuading.

We met up with Kin and Fen as well which was great as Fen and I compared notes on giving our siblings wedgies and had almost as much fun climbing on the railings as we did riding the track.

I rode the track, it's a serious business. My jumps are coming along nicely and I got to race a wide variety of other kids. I also got to talk at them about my various track visits, my bike, the bike I want father christmas to bring me, whether you should ride the track the wrong way round, as well as telling people off for walking accross the track and using micro scoters. All in a friendly way of course!

We got up bright and early today to head for the cinema to see the film Marmaduke. We loved it, I especially liked the doggie blowing off on the bed!

Yeah, it was a good film, i'd wanted to se it for ages too.

We came home on the bus which was really cool, especially as it seemed to be driven by Jenson Button it went so fast.

We spent the afternoon playing games on the Cbeebies website....

.....Ned was helping me to do them, sometimes he's a nice big brother.....

I got a smack on the nose from my friend Eva at nursery last wednesday. It gave me a nose bleed, it was well worth it though as we were arguing over a book. I also enjoyed milking my injury for the rest of the day.
The following day I took a big old tumble on Ned's school climbing frame too, I gave that one a good milking too. It was a shame actually as i'd climbed up really well.
In more academic news, i've been really getting into my phonics lately, i've even learned to write my name:

I managed to find the time to let Ned give me a ride around the house though:

What have I been into this week? Fractions...loving those and am throwing questions and answers around all over the place.
And what am I not loving this week.....? Not having lost any teeth yet like loads of my friends. I haven't even got any wobbly ones for goodness sake.
We went to Legoland on saturday, it's shutting for the winter soon so we thought we should get another trip in.
As usual, Dad and I got the rubbish boat and Mum and Ellis took off into the distance:

I got to give the pirate baddie from the show a high five.
I hid from him, he looked a bit of a meanie!
We rode on the carousel:

And I shared the spinny seat with another couple of children:

I used all the same techniques as Dad does to make sure we spun super fast...the others loved it!
Then I called Mum's bluff and decided I wanted a go on the log flume, I never want a go on the log flume:

It was brilliant and we didn't even get that wet!

Dad took us for a spin on the spiders web ride:

He obvioulsy didn't spin it fast enough as he didn't feel sick when he got off.

The biggest most exciting thing for though was going on the viking river rapids ride as I was finally tall enough. I loved it too, especially when we got soaking wet.

So that was our last trip for the year done and dusted.

Sunny sunday morning cuddle club:

And then in the afternoon it was Joshua's first birthday party, and a very good turnout of us kids and their accompanying grown up's:

We had a lovely time and hope you had a happy birthday young man!

Here I am as my super hero alter ego, Ellis the Zebra:

Well, that brings us up to yesterday, the day we said our final goodbyes to our great Grandma.

Yes thats right, it was her funeral yesterday. There were a few good things about it though, first off we got to ride in a limo with Mum, Dad, Alan and Hayley all in the back.

We also got to listen to some really good stories about her life during the service.

I made sure I kept things lively by responding nice and loud when I thinght the Vicar bloke needed some added atmosphere. He really liked that i think.

Almost as much as he liked Auntie Trish's and Auntie Christines singing during the hymns!

We headed off to the pub afterwards, the ladies there made me a special marmite sandwich which went down well.

We had a game of giant connect four in the garden (thanks Anne)

And a great chase around with Grandad!

So, (Great) Grandma then...not the most agile and a little forgetfull at times perhaps, but she always had a fridge full of chocolate (only ever Dairy Milk!) and a purse full of ice cream money. Best of all though, she had a lovely smiley face whenever she saw us and we took her out to play with us...

and of course, she was always on our side.

Not many kids get to have a great Grandma at all!

I've been getting plenty of practice in for my harvest festival singing, they love hearign it at home and I burst into song at any given moment. I've also been given my lines that I have to read out in front of everyone and I think i've got them learnt already. the production isn't until next week.
Trampolining club was a non starter again this week as I was the only one who turned up. Not happy about this at all, hopefully things will pick up when the winter weather starts?
It can't ba far away now, the Scalextric is back out!
I'm still finding my 'giant robot' jokes hilarious, much to everyone elses annoyance.
Haircut day on Saturday, we love haircuts we do, especially when my hair gets finished first and I get the very last lolly in the whole place...unlucky Ned!
Hmmm, I could have kicked off but I knew Mum would see me right and sure enough a big bag of fizzy cola laces were all mine.
We had a quiet afternoon and then enjoyed some saturday TV, Harry Hill is back on and we love it.
Hmm, we kept it low key Saturday as we were off on a big day out Sunday...to London!
I was so excited it was unbelievable. We went on the train from Reading, before getting on the underground.
The train was a bit rubbish actually, it was so full we couldn't even sit down, never mind look out of the window. What's all that about?
Except it wasn't very underground at Paddington, you could still see the sky from the station. Once we were on the train itself it was soon pretty dark so that was okay.
I loved the underground, there was a really cool pole to swing around in the middle of the carriage.
So after a while of wobbling, dark, light, stopping and starting we emerged into the daylight at the Tower of London:

I was loving it straight away, cool buildings everywhere you looked, and even better proper castle stuff like catapaults, I took hold of the camera and snapped away:

Shields were everywhere, we'd been learning about them at school so I filled my boots with photo's:

..................and more:

.......and more:

In fact i've got loads more if you want a look?

There were cool soldier chaps dotted about as well:

Some of them were even real:

We thought this one wasn't, until he started marchign up and down and wafting his gun about:

I'm not sure I liked him much to be honest, he was a little bit scary, well, his boots clip-clopping on the floor were anyway.

I, on the other hand thought he didn't look all that scary and I reckon I could have slipped past him to steal the crown jewels no trouble at all.

We tried on some headgear, think I may need to fill out a bit before I can join up:

But I reckon i'd be okay with a woolly hat underneath:

Being a castle, there were lots of steps to negotiate, these were by far the straightest though:

The Royal Armoury was brilliant, all the weapons and armour on display, I loved it. I also particulalry liked the statues of all the old kings horses. After a careful scientific study I concluded that all the kings horses were male (well, I looked underneath them all):

I loved listening to one of the guides doing a talk, he told us all about where the gunpowder was stored, how the stairs were made to be hostile towards any intruders and best of all that the toilet had hole straight out to the outside world...stinky or what!!!

Upstairs there were loads of cool things to play with, push, pull, lift and shove.

This sword game was great fun, Mum and I had a most agreeable draw with 16 points each:

I am of course big and strong, big enough and strong enough to pick up a real live sword:

Shame it was shackled to the wall, I could have done a good job on Ned with it!

The Crown Jewels themselves were actually rather snazzy, really shiny and sparkly. A bit overkill for everyday wear but nice all the same.

After I had consumed several times my own body weight in history, facts and figures it was time to leave the Tower:

Dad had the rather good idea of heading back on the river Thames in a boat instead of being under the ground on a train. It was a good idea, but the tide was so high that the boats were struggling a bit. We had a bit of a wait on her hands....

But the time flew by as Ned and I had a series of silly little fights and minor squabbles.

Pretty much the second after Dad struggled to take this photo of us aboard the boat I dropped off to sleep on his lap:

I certainly didn't, I loved it. We even got to go upstream under Tower bridge before turning round and heading off toward Westminster. We saw the Gherkin, St Pauls, The London Eye, Loads of cool bridges and loads of other cool stuff I want to go and see (HMS Belfast, the Tate Modern, the list goes on and on). We arrived at Westminster at exactly five o'clock, just as Big Ben began it's chimes.

They helped to wake me up for sure.

We got back on another underground train and headed back to the station for the proper train and my highlight of my day, McDonalds.

Thankfully, we got seat son the way home, but only just.

On monday at school I got to answer questions from my day in London in front of the whole class, I was really pleased about that. Then today one of the ladies at breakfast club told Mum they'd heard all about my outing all day long, they loved it.

I rode my trike to pick Ned up from school yesterday, hadn't ridden it for a while so it made a nice change. We'd never realised just how much fun it could be though, Ned rode it with me on the back...

.....and Ellis rode it all the way home from school with me on the back!

It must be getting towards the winter, we've been having the odd sniffle and snotty nose.
I also had an enormous coughing fit in the night, at least Mum woke up!
Obviously this had quite an effect on my nights sleep, consequently I wasn't up to much at trampoline club on Wednesday after a full on morning at nursery. Add to that the fact that there weren't many of us at trampoline club and I had one all to myself, I was well and truly bounced out within half an hour or so.
My massive golden time gains at school took a bit of a hit and managed to lose two of them. I'm not telling anyone why I actually lost them though.
Shopping on Thursday, and a special treat for me.... a new duvet and cover. A real, full size one too. I had the choice of a Peppa Pig or Disney Princess cover and although I deeply love all things Peppa Pig the Princess' won out. My bed looks extra snuggly now and some mornings I even wake up without ice cold feet.
After school we packed up the bikes and headed for Snelsmore. We had a lovely explore but didn't find nearly enough jumps to keep me happy.
We found some cool old building with a puddle in the middle though:

I rode for miles and miles, but eventually i'd had enough and Dad had to carry my bike for a bit.

What does he expect anyway? Look how little my wheels are!
Friday night and Auntie Christine was coming to babysit, I know, two different Aunties to babysit inside a week, how lucky are we?
I outlasted Ned easily, and stayed up proper late and everything.
Hmmm, Friday nights are never my best time, i'm usually done from a hard week at school and am prone to crashing out.
Mum went to work on Saturday so we had a full day with Dad. In a shock outcome we didn't spend the whole day at the BMX track!
No, we went to Eddie Catz, the new indoor playgorund place that used to be Fantasy Land. It was brilliant as well, almost as good as the BMX track in fact. I had a great game of football on the football pitch with some older boys. I once again dazzled Dad with my ball skills.
We had a great time and stayed for ages, in fact we stayed until we were in desperate need of lunch and had to go.
Once lunch was done and dusted we had a bit of a snooze and then started on this weeks school project. We were all sent home with a cooking apple and had to do something with it. Mum came up with the idea of Apple Shortbread. Turned out to be a great idea, especially in conjunction with some ice cream:

I've written a full recipe out with pictures for my project.
We picked Mum up from work in the afternoon and settle ddown for some serious saturday night sofa action before bedtime.
Mum had obviously had a tiring day at work though, she fell aslepp on my bed after my story and I had to wake her up because her snoring was stopping me from going to sleep!
Had a nice lay in on Sunday before we headed for the Watercress Line railway.
We arrived with seconds to spare before the train pulled out of the station, Mum and I were the advance party....
...leaving Dad to get my wellies on before we could catch them up.
I was so worried they'd get left behind.
But we had it all under control and no sooner were we sat down the train moved off.
We do love riding on the train, especially when we have an extensive picnic to graze on as the countryside rolls past.


When we reached our destination at Alton the train itself had to change ends, we enjoyed watching them couple it back up again, even of it was tipping it down with rain:

Luckily we had managed to keep just enough picnic back to last the return journey, we needed the energy it provided for out chicken danicing in time to the train puffs!

After the train we headed into Babystoke as we have decided to call it from now on to get me a new winter coat. Riding up and down in lifts is always cool and I got my new coat in a very quick and easy fashion.
I took a piece of my apple shortbread in to school for my teacher on Monday, I suggested she eat it with ice cream when she got home.