Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

My good run of trampolining club came to an abrupt end last wednesday when we got to Northcroft to be told that all sessions were finished until after christmas. We thought better of standing about arguing about it like some of the other Mums and went for a play in the park instead. We saw a cheeky little squirrel as well, running along the fence and then off up a tree, I loved that.
I came home from school and got back on with my christmas card writing. I'm upto 19 cards from my friends now!
When we went to pick Mum up from work we didn't go straight home, we went to the market place instead...to have a ride with Santa in his horsedrawn sleigh:



We had a lovely time riding around the market place and waving to everyone:

Santa told me I need to tidy my room too, it's almost like he can see all my mess somehow?

I had an unexpected treat on Thursday morning when Mum had a morning off to look after a leaky radiator. We had to wait for the plumber man to come and take it off without letting hundreds of litres of water slosh everywhere. I was really rather interested in what he was doing.
While all this was going on, I was off on my school trip to the panto in Basingstoke at the Anvil. We had a double decker coach to take us and I got to sit on the top deck so things got off to a good start. When we got there my teacher asked me if i'd like to go up on the stage, so of course I said yes! I wanted Teagan to come up with me but she didn't fancy it for some reason? So anyway, during the show I got to go up on stage with none other than PC Plum (out of Balamory) for a few questions (Name, School, what i wanted for christmas) and to do a bit of a dance routine for a song. I loved it of course, especially all my mates giving me the thumbs up sign all the way through. I got some really cool colouring books and a puzzle book with plenty of word searches in it....result. There was also of course the bad fairy in the story, Abi Titmuss apparently...I liked her. The teachers couldn't wait to tell Dad what i'd been up to when he came to pick me up.

We're well and truly in the Christmas spirit at School, we had our Christmas Bazaar on friday afternoon.

We always love the Christmas Bazaar. The first thing we got involved in was like a treasure hunt where you had to find 10 christmassy stamps around the school grounds. Once you had collected them all you could claim your prize of some sweets!

Yeah, we loved this, I don't think there was a prize on offer for fastest completion but the speed I was running around the grounds I would certainly have been in with a shout if there was.

There was plenty of other games and things to get involved in too of course, I just liked wandering about the school though to be honest, getting a feel for it for when I start myself next year.

After we'd had our fill of home made cakes and sweets, bought back the fudge that I made in class last week and spent all of Dad's money we rounded off the afternoon with a trip to see Santa in his grotto. We were almost the last ones of the day to go in so we were hoping he hadn't promised all the good toys to everyone else.

Ned wanted to go in alone so I went with dad, which was just as well as I made him do pretty much all the talking.

Auntie Christine was coming round to babysit in the evening, obviously that was going to be cool.

Yes, she arrived bearing christmas goodies of course, we made some cards and played Christmas snap.

We were so enthused with the christmas snap that we had a game in bed with Mum and Dad on Saturday morning.

Before we got headed for town to see the ice sulptors.

They had a massive great big lump of slippery, shiney cold ice and they were chipping away at it trying to turn it into the shape of a man (Jack O'Newbury by all accounts). I was intrigued by the whole thing really, like how they were doing it, how they got the ice into town in the forst place and who had a big enough freezer to make it at all?

Rather brilliantly we were allowed to help and have a go for ourselves:

I really got a taste for it:

And could quite happily spent the entire afternoon chipping away, especially once i'd managed to convince the man to lend me his lovely warm waterproof gloves to wear as well:

We didn't get to see the finished article as it was taking a while, but i'm sure it will be in the paper on Thursday.

We had more pressing issues to attend to anyway, like our christmas tree.

Yeah, we went round to Alan and Hayleys as they we were going over to Yattendon together. Alan was playing a game called Call of Duty Black Ops on his PS3....it was awesome. Guns, explosions, blood and guts and bad language. I'd never seen anything quite like it on my DS or the Wii thats for sure!

Anyway, the main event was of course tree shopping, as usual me, Ned and Mum settled on pretty much the first one we saw while Dad spent ages rooting about through hundreds of trees trying to find the perfect specimen:

We got it in the bag of the car with no problems at all, unlike Alan and Hayley who had to shoe horn their monster tree into the back of the Gayo....

We got out and about for a little while on Sunday with a visit to the Discovery Centre in Thatcham. The playground was good as always but the lake was really smart....

......as a lot of it was frozen! We fed some ducks with some bread donated from someone else's mum (we were not organised enough to bring our own):

Quack!

We marvelled at the birds standing on the ice out towards the middle of the lake:

Mum took an arty picture with the sun shining off the water:

And we headed off for a lap, which turned out to be well worth the trip as the ice on the opposite side was really thick. We had great fun throwing twigs and stones onto it, watching them slide off across the ice and make funny echoey noises if thrown really hard.

When we got home we had a lovely snooze before Dad finally gave in and we went and out up the outside lights.

Yes, we were most helpfull, even if we did leave all the doors open and nearly froze Mum to death.

Today was the first day of our school nativity play, Dad recieved two glowing reports of my performance from two of the Mum's in the playground at home time (one of which was a music teacher and everything). I can't wait to do it all again tomorrow.

But even more exciting than that was our christmas disco after school. I had my snazzy new shirt to wear and I was raring to go. We had cool music (Black Eyed Peas, Cheryl Cole of course), sweets, crisps, free drinks and glowing bracelets. What more could we want?

A swift video to finish with this week I think: