Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

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.