Made a triumphant return to trampolining on Wednesday! I was going highest and had the biggest bag of tricks (even if there was only three of us). A trampoline each meant there was a lot of bouncing to be done, so after half an hours solid boinging we headed off to the Bumpers indoor playground for a bit as well. This was great actually, after i'd made Dad accompany me through it all (at great personal riske to himself in some of the tighter areas) I was quite happy to go it alone right to the very top.
We've started work on the nativity play at school and i'm a narrator again. Not really that happy about that truth be told as I was aiming a little higher. Whats really unfair is that the boy who is playing Joseph doesn't even want to because he doesn't want to be in love with the girl who's playing Mary!
The cold weather has been playing havoc with our after school play time as Dad and Ellis really don't seem keen on standing about and getting freezing cold while I charge around the grounds for some reason. We have a secret base with a secret password at the edge of the field. I told Shimon the password in strict confidence and he went and told everyone! Access denied for him in future and we changed the password straight away too.
We did however have a mighty kick about with a ball I found in the playground.
Yes, Dad and I joined in and everything...until I got too cold and wanted to go home.
And then when we got home Dad managed to tip a whole glass of squash into my Lego tub. Ooops, he was pretty cross about it and spent ages washing all my bricks up so they didn't get sticky. We had no takers for drying up surprisingly?
Our new morning regime is running very smoothly, Ned and I dress ourselves,
And then I load all the he things for the day into the buggy, this all means Mum can have a lovely leisurely morning of course.
Friday night was most exciting, Father Christmas was switching the lights on in town!
Dad route marched us from our 'park and ride' location miles from town which gave us plenty of time to get hyped up for the big event.
We met Mum and headed for Auntie Christines shop.....she had chocolates! How christmassy.
We headed out into the street to await the arrival of the big man, we really were much more excited than we look in this picture:

I waved like mad at him but he didn't see me so I didn't get a wave back.
We followed on to the market place where there was a snow machine covering everyone in snow.
it wasn't real snow though, and on closer inspection it turned out to be bubbles instead!
We got up on Mum and Dad's shoulders to watch Santa do his bit on the stage before going off to see the real life reindeers that he had bought along with him.
Then it was a trip to McDonalds before the long, cold, dark, walk back to the car.
Saturday morning and at long last a trip to the swimming pool.
I took some convincing it has to be said.
I didn't, I was straight in and right on it, I really love the water.
To tell the truth, so do I really.
After lunch I was off to my friend Neve's birthday party, I looked pretty good even if I do say so myself:

I won that doggy balloon by being the best doggy impersonator. I had a lovely time and joined in with all the fun and games.
While the girls were at the party Dad and I went to the sweet shop and played the mini games on Wii party...my perfect afternoon really.
We had a day with Auntie Christine on Sunday while Mum and Dad went out on top secret business.
We don't really care what they were doing though, we had such a cool time.
We baked, we painted, we coloured, we played dominoes, we went the park in Laura's monster truck, we made paper chains...all the lovely pre-christmas stuff.
We had a lovely day thanks!
We even had a writing competition when mum and dad got back to collect us, Uncle Ian apparently writes like an old Man (according to Auntie Christine) and Auntie Christine writes like a baby (according to Uncle Ian).
It snowed on Tuesday! Not much admittedly, but it was enough to get us excited.
We enjoyed our trip to school even more than usual, and we also got have a lift to nursery with Luca...result!
As if that wasn't enough to egt us going we also got the advent calendars and what have you out ready for tomorrow....the countdown is ON!!!!

Had a sneaky lunch with Mum on Wednesday, we went to the Cafe in her shop and I had a rather delicious gingerbread snowman washed down with apple juice. A very pleasant supplement to my lunch at nursery. This was all despite my very muddy coat that I actually had to go out in public wearing after spending a large part of the morning making mud pies.
Tea has been eaten at a hell of a rate lately so we can fit a game of Wii party in before bedtime. I still haven't won a goame yet though and i'm begining to get a little upset about it.
Thursday I had to have another emergency coat wash following a big morning of yet more mud pie making.
It was parents evening for the first time in my new class. This is generally a cool thing as Andy comes round for tea, so not only do we get his company, we get somethig nice to eat. This time we all had to top our very own pizza's. I loved it. While Mum and Dad went off to hear all about me at school we made Andy play Wii party with us.
Where Ned's losing run continued...oops!
Friday was wear some spots for Children in need day at school, my wardrobe doesn't really have much in the way of spotty garments so we had to improvise with some pens:

Mum made a bit of a mistake with the shirt she used though and picked one of my newer ones rather than the older, almost too small one she had intended to use.
Best of all though was my fabulous Wii party victory at long last! I was rather pleased to say the least.
This weeks school project was all about castles so Dad and I built one from Lego:

Well, we built the front wall of one anyway as we soon ran out of 'proper' building bricks. I did set about furnishing the inside of the castle though. We had a fireplace, a banquet table and a throne:

Where the king and his two mean looking guards were positioned:

Saturday and we split into boys and girls teams. Mum and I were going to the theater to see Elmer with Abi and Carol.
While Dad and I went to the cinema to watch Alpha and Omega.
We had a lovely time at the Corn Exchange and lapped up the show, especially the singing and dancing (not to mention the cool Hello Kitty sweets Carol bought along).
Dad and I had our fizzy fanta and a massive bag of Tangfastic's, we were all set. I loved the film almost as much as the sweets too. I also liked waving my hand in front of the projector during the adverts and seeing my massive hand accross the big screen.
We went out to buy me some suitable winter footwear on Sunday morning, a nice pair of cool trendy boots (with Butterflies on them). I love them, really love them and haven't wanted to wear my Peppa Pig trainers since.
When we got home Mum and Dad forced us to go outside for some reason. We walked up the field to the Wash Common park which actually turned out to be quite A good idea I suppose.
When we got home we made a nice big gooey chocolate cake:

It really was very chocolatey indeed.

And then a little more Wii party to finish off the weekend. Are we addicts?

Well it's getting all wintry out there isn't it? I've even worn my coat once or twice.
Because of this, we've been involved in a lot of indoor activities of late so once again we have a distinct lack of pictures to back up our news this week.
We had a trip to the park with Leo on Wednesday afternoon, I think he must have been having a bit of a day of it and sadly I didn't really help matters with my gentle wind ups.
On Thursday we were impossibly excited about a trip to the dentist for our check up. The lure of a sticker eh?
And now I was three I was allowed to have a go in the chair and everything.
Dad got to go first and then it was my turn. I hopped straight up in the chair and opened my mouth so wide the dentist nearly fell in. Dad commented that I hadn't lost any of my teeth yet, even though all my friends are having wobblers all over the place. He said that it wil all happen soon enough and not to worry.
I wasn't quite as brave as Ned and I sat on Dad's lap for the dentist to take a look in my big wide mouth.
Afterwards while we were out at the desk rifling the stickers the nurse came out with a special envelope to put my teeth in for the tooth fairy........
We went from the dentist to see Auntie Christines 'new' shop.
It was super cool, it's got the biggest telly we've ever seen and a lovely comfy sofa for us to sit down on. We spent quite a while marking out plenty of new 'height benchmarks' for us to compare ourselves to.
As we walked back up town to go and pick Mum up from work I decided to pock a fight with the pavement....the pavement won. I bumped my head really hard, and i cried my eyes out. Dad picked me up and soon discovered a truly enormous lump on the side of my head as well as some blood. He had a little panic and called Mum as we were right outside her shop, she got her work first aiders to take a look and they recommended I get the docor to check it out.
While this was going on we got to raid Chris the security man's sweetie stash, nice one Ellis.
So we had an unscheduled trip to the doctors. I got checked out and even he remarked on just what a big lump I had attached to my head.
So Friday then and I got picked up early from nursery to go and have my jabs...at the doctors! What a couple of days i'd had there! Still, the jabs themselves went by without any undue stress or bother. I didn't mind them at all actually and made sure I had a good look at what the nurse was doing. I was pretty proud of my twin plasters afterwards as well and didn't want to take them off.
In the afternoon Dad and I hit Sainsbury's to get some supplies for saturday evenings entertainment. This of course meant the cool escalator and a lot of fun and games going through all the fruit and veg.
We had a rather ill advised trip to Hungerford Skatepark on saturday morning, it was a little bit wet form the overnight rain and the metal ramps were pretty slippery. We fell off. A lot.
The park next door was great fun though so it wasn't a complete disaster.
We went on to Marlborough afterwards and had a look around the shops, there were some cool toy shops to look around and everything was starting to get a bit Christmassy.
So we went to get our advent calendars, exciting or what?
We had an afternoon session on Wii Party before heading off to Kimi and Marny's place so the grown ups could eat or something?
We had a lovely time ransacking their toys of course.
And once all the young un's had fallen asleep we watched the boxing. Although everyone seemd to think it was rubbish I quite enjoyed it really.
In view of the late night on Saturday, Sunday morning was a very lazy affair indeed. Infact no one was dressed much before lunchtime.
We watched the Grand Prix that had an 'Awesome' crash at the start but then became a bit boring.
Then it was back on the Wii party...have we mentioned that we love Wii party before?
We love Wii Party!
And this weeks bedtime literature? Shakespeare no less. Auntie Christine gave me a a box set of his books (in condensed form I should add). I love the stories, full of violence, poisoning, deceit and love! Right up my street they are.

First of all this week was nursery parents evening, a chance fro Mum and Dad to find out what i'm really like! Very good by all accounts, if a little bit bossy at times. They got to have a good old read of my development folder which also had some really good photo's in it.
Yes, they were ven a few of me tucked away in there. It was cool going back to nursery, but everything seemed so small.
So once the heat was off, I had a great time at nursery the next day painting my hair...or highlights as i'd prefer to call them.
I rode my two wheel scooter almost all the way to nursery on Friday...scoot, scoot, scoot!
Another week, another celebration. There's plenty of them this time of year and this time it was Bonfire Night.
We've been learning all bout it at nursery, I made the Guy for our big bonfire picture on the wall.
And we've been learning all about it at school of course as well as doing plenty of fireworks pictures. The highlight though was the caretaker, Mr. Jones making a real bonfire on the field that we got to stand around.
Unfortunatley though Mum and Dad were going out on Friday night so we didn't go and see any fireworks.....
...........the upside was that Auntie Christine came round to look after us. I really enjoyed showing her my nursery log and she was really thrilled that watching the sound of music with her had made it into one of my weekend observations!
We headed for the beach on saturday, well it had been quite a while. We took Owen along for the ride too.
Dad took the camping stove and we had fresh cooked bacon butties on the pebbley beach:

The sea air made them taste even better than at home.
I don't like bacon sandwiches, so I had my usual...cheese sandwich instead.
We even had a flask of hot chocolate to drink, but the sun was out and it really wasn't cold enough for us to get the full benefit.
We did a bit of shopping but sadly, being winter, the ice cream kiosk was closed.
Owen devised a 'throw the stone into a hole he'd dug down below on the beach' game.
I let him and Dad trade wins until the final game where I showed them how it was really done and cleaned up:

Auntie Christine called us on the way home, desperate for someone to go to the fireworks at the racecourse with.....we were asleep at the time so couldn't give her a proper answer.
So we had to just go and call for her and hope she hadn't got a better offer.
She hadn't, so we walked down to the racecourse with her, sparklers in hand.
We also met up with Alan and Hayley when we got there which was good, uncle Alan is so much louder than even the loudest foreworks so we weren't frightened of any of them this year.
Which is definatley a first. We loved them this year, even if I did take to my buggy for a blanket snuggle towards the end of the display.
We went into town on Sunday to buy presents for our childrens charity shoe boxes that they are organising at nursery. We spent ages picking and choosing what we thought they might like.
It raised a few questions qith me though....like how come Father Christmas doesn't visit the poor children as well? Never mind the difficult questions anyway,m the highlight of the trip was in actual fact....
Me.....
Bouncing on a space hopper.........
Wearing a big pair of wobbly...........
pretend...........
Boobies!!!
We went home, had a bit of a snooze and then played some more Wii party......brilliant.
Nothing to report from the start of the new week so far. Oh, except Mum gave me a kiss goodbye when she dropped me off at school this morning...didn't go much on that.
Dad and I went to meet Mum at lunchtime today for a sneaky trip the Pasty shop. Don't tell Ned for goodness sake..........

So we're still on half term.
Mum had the delight of doing the weekly shop with both of us on Wednesday morning.
Things got a little...umm....fraught.
After all that excitement we decided a quiet afternoon was in order. Once Dad got home we settled down to watch Kung Fu Panda.
Which we all loved.
We went for a walk around the field afterwards. I took my binoculars and magnifying glass so we could examine the wildlife.
But we got more than we bargained for with a very enthusiastic dog who quite frankly terrorised the pair of us.
Thursday was Dad's birthday and we rang him at work to sing happy birthday.
We couldn't wait for him to come home and have his presents and the cards we had made him.
And even better than that, Pizza Hut!
We came home and gave him his special 'surprise' birthday cake (that he knew all about because of Ellis) and of course we didn't like it. We never like birthday cake, we always think we do but it turns out we really don't.
Everyone had a day off on Friday so we had an outing to the Alice in Wonderland park in Bournemouth.
Last time we came here Ellis was only just born so didn't go on any rides.
I did this time though:

We climbed through crocodiles mouths:

I screamed for speed:

We drove funny orange caterpillar:

I climbed as high as i'd ever climbed before:

And most exciting of all we rode ponies:

Yes we did:

I went on my first pirate ship ride, I sort of liked it but it made my tummy feel a bit woozy.

And there was a great big indoor playgorund which was really good except for the blue bumpy slide in the corner. It was so fast that you jumped the last bump and landed either on your bum from a great height...........

...........or on the back of your head!

The end result was the same for both methods though...tears!

Once we got home it was time to get ready for trick or treat:

The usual gang were here from the West country and we were off out for treats (we didn't actually have any tricks to speak of).

We visited John and Sarah's ran and Grandad first of all, I must admit I was a little disappointed that this didn't involve a trip to the caravan in Cornwall.

Then it was on to Auntie Christines for a quick blast of the sound of music,

Then on to Alan and Hayley's:

Before our final call of the night at Owen and Hannah's.

We had a tremendous haul again, thanks everyone!

And apologies to anyone who had sat in the dark for ages waiting for us to arrive....our schedule went out of the window very early on.

We had to have a lazy morning to get over our trick or treating on Saturday. We were finally forced out of the house by mum and dad to go for a walk around Snelsmore in the afternoon.

It was great actually, we put our wellies on and waded through a lovely sticky, muddy bog!
We also had to cross a stream, which Mum very nearly fell in....that certainly made us laugh.

But not as much as if she had fallen in it properly.

When we got home we played Wii Party (that Dad had for his birthday). It's really good fun, especially the game where you have to play hide and seek with the Wii-remotes.

We went to Grandad and Anne's for lunch on sunday.

We span in the chair of course.

I cuddled their cat...a lot!

And we had a trip to the park where Grandad and I had a brilliant game of dodgeball. I was quite bold during the game and wouldn't flinch even if the ball was coming towards my head.

When we got home, seeing as it was proper Halloween mum and I carved our pumpkin....she hated the smell of it's insides though:

I drew the face on and Mum did the sharp knife work:

Monday and we were still off school and nursery.

We had another morning with Mum before we headed for the skatepark with Dad in the afternoon.

I love the skatepark, especially when I get to show the older kids up in front of their mates. We hadn't been to the one in Hungerford before so it was a bit of find really. We had a great time, the locals were really friendly as well.

Even better than the skatepark was the playground right next door though, loads to explore there.

So today was the last day of our holidays, I was going to spend the morning with Hugo.

And I was off to nursery to finally catch up with my friends.

First of all though I accompanied Mum and Ellis to nursery, it was photo day so we got to have a few cheeky shots of Ellis and I together before I went back with Hugo, Matice and his Mum. We had a great morning, went to Victoria park, the library (where Hugo and I were a little noisy and played noughts and crosses instead of reading) before heading back for lunch. Dad came to pick me up early afternoon but we made it pretty clear that we were having such a good time I didn't want to go home. He and Ellis cleared off for a bit while we had our faces painted with camoflauge before meeting up with Dad and Ellis in the park later.

We stayed all afternoon, climbing trees, having pile ups on the slide and riding bikes.