Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Well I got my swimming report back and i've passed level one with flying colours, roll on level 2 when I get a yellow swimming hat and go in the deep end of the swimming pool. 

Hmmm, yeah great, I get to resume my lessons as well after Christmas, deep joy. 

We'll both be in the pool at the same time as well, but in different pools.

I don't know how Dad will manage to watch us both.

Dancing was back on this week and Mrs Groves had bought us all a pair of tap dancing shoes to wear.  How exciting!  The noise levels were certainly up while we tried them all for size.  

I was glad to leave them to it and do reading in the car, even though it gets dark very early at the moment and we have to have the lights on in the car.

I'm making quit a swift exit from school most nights now so I can get a bit of a go on the skateboard before it gets too dark.  All my practice paid off when  managed to pull very first ollie last week (when you pop the board up into the air).

We went to the Anvil to see the Panto with the school on Thursday morning.  I sat with Tom on the coach and i'd made sure I had loads of sweets to take with me.  The show itself was really brilliant, especially when Peter Pan flew out over the audience dropping glittery bits on us all.  Even silly Jake couldn't put me off with his endless chair kicking from behind.

We did our nativity play last week, a practice on wednesday then a real show on Thursday and Friday mornings.  Mum and Dad came on Friday morning and sat on the wrong side of the hall, I told them where to sit and it made perfect sense to me?  Anyway, it didn't matter too much.  They loved it of course:

And here's my close up, Ellis the 'Binky' (Innkeeper):

 I broke ranks at the end to go and give Mum a cuddle before I had to go back to class.
We got put to work on friday afternoon after school, making pigs in blankets for christmas:

We got them all nicely rolled and tucked away in the freezer, we can't wait to eat them!
We had a lay in on Saturday morning, playing christmas snap in Mum and Dad's bed.
Once we'd finally surfaced we got dragged to the beach.  Reluctantly.
But of course, once we got there we loved it!
We had chips on the seafront at the Witterings:

Took in the fresh sea air:

And of course, collected some rock samples:

Does this remind you of anyone?

We had a trip to the surf shop too of course.
And then we headed home for Sue to come around and babysit.  She has also joined the club of not reading Harry Potter, but we'll forgive her as she'd come out in a bit of a rush and forgotten her reading glasses.
I had Milly's party on Sunday morning.  It was good, there was a bouncy castle and massive dance floor for me to perform my moves.  The catering wasn't to my liking though, hot dogs (yuck), Flump sweets (yuck) and birthday cake with jam in it (yuck).
I was quite happy to take the cake of her hands....
We went to Rich, Oli and Joshuas on Sunday afternoon for a bit of a gethering with all the gang.  It was great fun, Max and I made ourselves at home and tucked into the impressive spread.
And I played with the younger ones, the wooden railway was a particular favourite.  As well as nearly one years old Finley!
Back to school today and we're getting bucketloads of cards.
I had a rather interesting one from Tilly, which she chose to inform me that she hated me with. Nice I thought?  Anyway, it got intercepted by one of the teaching assistants so we'll see what happens there.  We do generally manage to wind each other up though....