Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

The Wednesady before Christmas was another mum/dad split. Uncle Den popped in, to say merry Christmas as they were going away for a few days and settled in to watch the last part of the nativity series that had been on BBC One every night, we loved it.
Thursday, Mum was now off work all day. We went to Eddie Katz in the morning and had a good old play.
Yeah, we hadn't been for a while and we had to show Mum around as she hadn't been before. She was much better value than Dad because she even went down the twisty blue slide with me.
We picked Dad up from work and went straight to Pizza Hut for lunch. We had a short wait but it was well worth it as we got to sit on one of the big cosy round tables.
I ate loads and loads, most of it was actually savoury, what a shocker!
We went to nursery in the afternoon for the Santa visit (re-scheduled due to him feeling poorly when it was our carol concert). It was nice to catch up with my friends I hadn't seen for a few days and we were soon all sat on the rug waiting for him to arrive. He had a present for all of us in his sack and I wasn't at all shy about going to collect mine. I even said a nice big thank you (without being prompted) which made Mum really pleased. The present was a Christmas CD, which I insistted Dad put on as soon as we got back to the car.
We had a drive round looking for outside Christmas lights and decorations, I love doing that.
And with my CD on it was even better...even if I did fall asleep and miss them all.
Friday was of course, Christmas eve....how exciting!
We had a morning with Mum as Dad still had to go to work. We drove her slightly mad I think.
We had a visit from Sue which was cool as we hadn't seen her for a while.
Dad was soon home from work and we headed off out to the pub to see all the gang before Christmas. I headed straight or the games room with Max and Leo.
And I headed for Abi and Joshua who were sat around the table with the grown ups.
We drank fizzy drinks, played dominoes, ate crisps and even tried pork scratchings (yuck) before everybody started drifting off, wishing them all a happy christmas.
Then Alan did a doughnut in the Gayo in the snowy carpark, which was really cool.
We went home and had a luxury hot chocolate.
Topped off with squirty cream and chocolate sprinkles! After that I was ready to go to bed even if it was only 5:30 in the afternoon. I thought that the sooner I went to bed the sooner the morning would come. I wasn't allowed.
Slim and Trace came round to see us, we were pleased to see them of course.
I showed them how far Santa had got on the Norad website and we worked out how long it was going to take him to get to us.
We had a few jobs to attaned to, the Reindeer food had to be sprinkled out on the drive:



I put out a mince pie, a carrot and a drink for Santa.
And I left him my Santa book to read in my bedroom. When I got into bed I just couldn't stop smiling as I was so excited.
Then it was sleep time.................
...............before we woke up to find that he'd been and filled our stockings! (not too early of course, only around 5:30am):
I had a note from Santa, left on my book thanking me vey much for leaving it out for him and how he enjoyed a five minute break to read it on his busy night.

And here I am with my yucky farting slime filled toilet. What six year old wouldn't be happy with such a gift? The rest of my stocking contents were also really cool and it took me no time at all to get the rest unwrapped. Then I had to wait for Ellis to wake up....and wait.......and wait for what seemed like FOREVER!
It wasn't that long Ned, I had to play stocking catch up:

And then it was downstairs for the real action:

There were two proper big presents to unwrap, mine had a Hello Kitty surf board in:

And mine had a BMX in, a real BMX, a few of you may have heard me mention that I wanted one once or twice this year?

I had so many lovely things that I didn't know where to start, I thought i'd start with some make up though:

I tried my bike out for size, Santa got it spot on of course:

Auntie Trish came round to see us, which was really nice. She had bought a few stray presents for us that got left in Basingstoke apparently?

Even though every shop in the world was apparently sold out of them, Santa came through with a Barbie puppy swim school for me:

We headed outside for a little bit, to have a quick spin on my bike (through the snow).

And to throw some of our smart little bangers from our stockings.
Grandad and Anne came round for lunch with a few more presents that had found their way to Swindon.

Christmas dinner was of course a pigs in blankets fest, we love them!

Team them up with the crackers and the relaxed rules about how much we have to eat before we can have pudding and we were well on to a winner.

Later in the afternoon we headed off out to Auntie Christines, rather surprisingly there were yet more presents to be had:

Here we are with our very own copy of the sound of music to watch.

A double dose of Auntie Trish as she was there too, I helped her on a winning streak at shut the box:

Alan and Hayley arrived later on, even though poor old Hayley was struggling with a savage sounding cold.

Guess what? They had......presents!

We stayed really late and had a lovely time, thanks for having us!

And thanks to everyone we saw on the day (and indeed the days before) for such lovely presents. We really were very pleased with them all and know how lucky we are.

So boxing day then, nothing planned, just a lazy day eating and playing.

It was lovely to be able to go through all our new stuff properly.

Sadly mum was back to work on Monday so we had another lazy day going through our new stuff.

Another go with our bangers and a little bike ride for all of us. It was still a bit snowy though.

So after three days of staying mostly in, we thought we'd better get out and about. We took some bread to feed the ducks in the park and then we went to meet mum for lunch.

We took her to the pasty shop and then went to get little Finley a present.

Yes, we've got another little friend to play with, congratulations to Chris and Kate!

We went home to watch Dad's favourite film ET. We hadn't seen it before but Mum said it was really sad and she always cries when she see's it. I didn't cry of course, and I loved the BMX bit!

I cried, I cried quite a lot when the poor little chap got all poorly. I also cried when he got better and went home to his mummy and daddy.

Wednesday and we went out again, this time to Avebury stone circle, it was really foggy on the way and Silbury Hill looked really cool with the mist all around it.

It was a really good explore with plenty of hills to climb.

The stones were pretty strange, some of them looked like they would fall over if we gave them a good old shove:

But they didn't, I suppose they have been there like that quite a while:

We went back to the car and had a lovely picnic and a sing song before we headed home.

Thursday was Ice Skating day. We took Andy along (and got in on a 'family' ticket).

Here I am in my rather fetching ice skates:

I know this will probably sound a bit stupid but the ice was just so slippery!

Dad and Andy did a really good job of keeping us upright.

And by the end of it I was sort of getting around quite well on my own:

Friday and Dad finally cracked and took me to the BMX track. It was pretty muddy and soft but I made the most of it and my new bike was brilliant:

I certainly showed Dad, Owen and Andy how it was done.

After one lap of the track I curled up in the tent with a few cuddly toys and the picnic and snuggled down for a kip:

Well it was now the weekend so Mum was back off work for a couple of days at least.

We made the most of it by going to the Cotswold Wildlife park, a winter favourite of ours.

First stop was the Lemur enclosure where thay aren't in cages and like to run around and jump about the place.

I thought maybe some gentle provocation would get them to perform:

This was about as close as I was prepared to get to them:

What? Lemur? In my hood?

We loved listening to the keeper lady do a talk on them and we learned all about where they live in the wild and what they like to eat.

The Otters were on good form, having a game of Otter tag:

And the Meerkats were really funny too. We got to them at feeding time, and do you know what they ate? Hard boiled eggs!

We love the farm section and I managed to help Ellis over her fear of animals larger than cats:

Yeah, I got really brave and loved these little goats:

There was a lioness that you could kiss through the glass:

And there was a brand new giraffe enclosure and even playfighting Rhino's.

Of course there was also the train, we were very lucky and caught the last one of the day:

We went to Grandad and Annes for lunch on Sunday. As we left Mum and Dad, in a devious, sneaky move snatched our Muzzy and blankey and put them in the washing machine.

To say we weren't happy was an understatement. We screamed and wailed like we'd had a leg cut off.

We were just about over it by the time we got there and we had the coolest little cakes ever with lovely pink and purple icing.

And then we watched Madagascar as it was a little bit too cold and muddy to go to the park.

Mum was back to work on Monday so we took her out for lunch again, then it was home to watch Snow Buddies on DVD and then a visit from Auntie Christine and Uncle Ian.

We showed them all our lovely presents.

I did a few peg board pictures with Auntie Christine.

And I took uncle Ian on at Draughts.