I had my first swimming lesson on Tuesday, another oppurtunity for Dad to deal with my hair when he has to tuck it up into my lovely red swimming hat.  I don't whine as much as Ned did when he pulls my hair though.  I was dead keen and certainly made an impression on my teacher, with my super enthusiasm.  I really enjoyed it and can't wait to go again next week.
I'm still enjoying my school swimming lessons as well.  We think it's cool that we both go on the same day too.
Wednesday was my harvest festival assembly at school, mum came along but didn't get a very good view of my as I was rather obscured by the girl in front with her massive hair:

I loved it, all the singing and the actions.  I'd been practicing at home for long enough anyway.

Yeah she had been, all the same songs as I did when I did it too, I quite enjoyed joining in with her around the house actually.

I got to hang around the playground for ages after school on Thursday as Ned was at multisports.  This was made doubly cool by having my friend Neeve hanging about for ages too, we had a great time.

And I was earning another certificate at Multisports for being player of the day......for football of all things.

The weather was so nice after school on friday we went to the park, now we're both at school we both have friends down there to play with, Dad is completely redundant.

Yeah, except for getting the bikes out of the garage he may as well not bother.

On the way home we saw my boyfriend Charlie outside his house, now we know where he lives he's in real trouble! Ha ha ha.

Auntie Christine came round to look after us in the evening, I was a bit, ummm, tired and emotional it has to be said.

I wasn't, I loved it even if Laura did pop round for a visit with my beloved Darcey.

I finally got my wish on Saturday morning and we did.....NOTHING!  I sat about watching telly all morning, lovely.

I decided to venture out into the garden with Mum and Dad for a bit and do some digging but soon got tired of that and got the skateboard out instead.

We finally gave in and had a walk to the park in the late afternoon for a some sweets before heading home to watch Merlin, we love Merlin.

Had a shopping trip on Sunday, but it wasn't the usual dull fest.

We went to a shop called Decathlon in Reading, they had everything from bikes, to canoes to archery sets.

Yeah, and sledges, boxing stuff and exercise equipment too.

It was great fun mooching about in there.  We also went to Argos and got me a clock radio so I could see what the time is when I wake up.  I am so excited about it.

Then we headed off to the big toy shop in Windsor, there were loads of cool things we wanted father christmas to bring us.

We had a walk back through the park, playing in all the fallen leaves.

When we got home Mum sorted my clock radio out for me, it's so cool I can even get radio one on it.  I 've been listening to it loads, after school on Monday I went straight tom y room, put the radio on and got busy with my Lego and tonight I was listening to Zane Lowe when I went to bed, Dad was pleased about that I think.

We've both got really keen on our learning logs this last week or so.

Yep, even me, theres a house point for anyone who gives there's in on a monday for us juniors....although I doubt i'll ever get one with our usual weekend schedules.

My drawing and artwork is coming on in leaps and bounds too, i'm doing some really nice pictures and some of them are even on paper (and not on my arms, legs or tummy).

I read an entire book with Dad while Ellis was dancing on Wednesday, it had well over twenty pages as well.  This is a real first for me and I was pleased as punch.

I still love my dancing and keep breaking into routines or spins at every available oppurtunity, even during the most mundane moments.

We had to go out for a ruddy walk after tea thanks to Ellis.  Well, I say walk, I took my bike.

Yeah, and I took Dad's skateboard.  I love the skateboard but I found out it isn't quite so good up hills or accross acorn strewn paths under the trees.

I did drumming during my golden time at school on friday afternoon, with some cool bongos.  I loved it, in fact golden time is brilliant in Juniors with so much to choose from.

We had a bit of a surprise on Friday night after tea....

Yeah, how about some new bikes:

We were very pleased with them, mine was shiny.

And mine had gears, I was a little bit overcome for a short time but soon got out on it to give it a quick test.

I would rather like a basket on the front of mine for transporting my soft toys or my babies.  I'm sure i'll get on fitted soon enough, Dad will love that.

Owen, Alan and Andy came round later (get well soon Hayley).  A great oppurtunity to show of our new wheels and manage to get my cool light up helicopter that Slim and Trace got me from Brazil stuck on the roof...not a happy boy.

We had a very slow start to the weekend with a saturday morning lie in.

Followed by helping Dad make pancakes for breakfast...about time to, i've been asking for weeks!

I love the maple syrup but don't like the pancakes so I dip my toast in it!

We eventually left the house after lunch, I was itching to get out on my new bike again:

So we had a trip to the park, a few laps of the little track down there provided a good oppurtunity to get to grips with it, even if I did crash into a tree and graze my shin on the pedal.

I had a few laps on mine too, but peferred to practice my monkey bars (which I can now do, a little bit anyway) and going down the twisty slide as backwards as I could.

It ended up a bit of a rush to get me to James (the new boy at school) party at Northcroft later in the afternoon.  I was pretty excited about it actually, he was having a football party! I had a great time and was even made captain for the match we played and got to pick my team.

I got dragged round town with Mum and Dad, we tried to find me a new winter coat but all the shops were rubbish and almost empty, Mum says it's because Park Way is opening soon?  Whatever, I rode round on Dad's shoulders which was great until I fell foul of a low doorway...WHACK!!!!!!

I also love writing my name, whenever possible and if there's no pen and paper to hand i''ll improvise with my breath and the car mirror:

Sunday we had a sneaky trip to Legoland.

Yeah, we were supposed to arrive a bit later than usual, get all the rides we like ticked off and then leave early.

We hadn't however banked on the Beavers day out.....the place was packed!

We couldn't even find a bench to eat our picnic on.

But armed with out insider knowledge we got on all our favourites (the Pirate boat, no hands all the way, the Big Dragon roller coaster, the cars and the boats).

But most of all Lego Rocket Racers game, which was closing at the end of the weekend to be replaced with something new for next year.  I'm pretty upset about this as it was probably my favourite thing in the whole place.  Still, we'll have to see what they replace it with I suppose....?

I had to be almost forced to do my Learning Log on Tuesday evening (weekly homework).  It was of course the day before it had to be in so the pressure was on. 

He isn't as keen as me on it thats for sure.

We've been playing jungle snap at home a lot lately, i'm brilliant at it and gave Dad a good hiding on more than one occasion.

I've been playing with loads of different children in my class lately, not just Luca and Neeve.  I love waltzing round the school saying hello to everyone, especially down at the juniors when we go to pick Ned up.

We finally did Olympics on Thursday at multi sports, which comprised of long jump (into the sandpit no less), hurdles and throwing the Nerf bomb thingy.   I loved it.

After tea we had to ready our submissions for Fridays cake sale:

We sort of cheated a bit and bought the fairy cakes, but the decoration was all our own work:

Friday was cake sale day of course, very exciting.

They were all out on the picnic tables in the junior playground under umbrellas to shield them from the lovely sunshine we've been having lately.

We got exactly the cakes we wanted, i'd seen some lovely looking brownies in the morning when we dropped ours off and made sure I had one of them.

And I wanted to buy one of our own cakes back.

By the time we thought about getting Mum one, they had all gone though, ooops.  Sorry Mum.

When we got home the car was all packed for camping, we picked Mum up from work, went to call for Andy and then headed West, to Croyde!

We didn't arrive until it was dark so putting up the tent was obviously fun and games.

We helped loads of course.

By the time everything was ready it was quite late but we didn't really fancy going to sleep very much.

Hmmm, we were a bit of a pain in the neck it has to be said.

When we got up on Saturday morning it was a lovely day, I couldn't wait for everyone else to get organised and get to the beach so I had a great time soaking myself with one of the water taps:

The beach was lovely, warm, sunny and not too crowded for the skim board, which i've really got the hang of now:

I did load of surfing with Mum, although she didn't really need to help me at all as I can launch myself now.  I still love to just run about in the water though:

There was digging of course:

Yeah loads of digging.  I was into making big holes:

And I was on more of a sand sculpture tip, I decided to this weeks school homework in the medium of sand.  We had to create a mythical creature, so here is my Crocodile-fish monster thingy:

Sunday was another lovely sunny morning, we had our breakfast sat outside, Andy missed out as he'd left for home early to go and watch the football or something:

We then had to pack everything away before we could go to the swimming pool.

My highlight of the weekend, I love the swimming pool.

Even I was fairly keen it has to be said.

I was all over it, every slide, every bubble pool every water jet, I even completed my first ever underwater forward roll and rode the flume slide alone.

Then we headed home, boo!

Dad assures us it was the last camping trip of the year, whether thats down to the onset of winter or our behaviour is open to specualtion though.

Weird scenes after school today, Mum came to pick us up...brilliant!

Yeah, Dad was working late or something?  Weird indeed.  Still, by the time Mum had walked all the way home she was feeling a little bit warm so we headed to the shop for an ice lolly.

Dad's worried a dangerous precident has been set now....