We went out for a walk after tea on Tuesday, I love going out for a wander after tea.
I don't, I hate it, I whinged all the way round....thank goodness we didn't go far.
I've got a proper chapter book as my reading book from school now, my first one.  It's about monsters.  I read three chapters in the car with Dad while Ellis was dancing but got distracted by a load of year five girls who were also at the school for a netball match.  They kept on waving at me through the window of the car.
We've got a few new girls in dance class now, so i'm kind of one of the old ones now.
I had a rubbish day at school on Thursday. I got told off by everyone for everything, I actually ended up in tears at one point as it got to me in the end. 
Friday was a bit better though, Mum helped me take out my wobbly tooth at long last, so that was the tooth fairy visit pencilled in for that evening.
After swimming lessons of course.  We're getting near the end of the course now so our teacher had her clipboard out to do marking.
Yeah, so did ours.  I made sure I tried my hardest all the way through as I really want to put an end to swimming lessons once and for all.
We took Ned and dropped him off at his school disco on Friday night, it was supposed to be a nice oppurtunity for the rest of us to go out on a lovely whinge free walk.  Trouble was that when we got to the hall the hall the thumping music and flashing lights were such a temptation I suddenly didn't want to go for a walk anymore, I wanted to go dancing.
Sadly Ellis, it was juniors only so tough luck.  We had a great time of course and I even bought Ellis a packet of sweets with my own money to try and soften the blow for her.
We had a day out on Saturday, it's been a while hasn't it?
Monkey World as well. 
Brilliant, far enough away to have a bit of a kip in the car on the way too!
Aside from the monkeys, there are of course loads of playgrounds:

Sadly I wasn't walways quite as good as the monkeys at climbing: 

The Orang's were really lovely, especially this one at the bottom who loved his blankie just like me:

He walked round like a ghost, he was rally funny and seemed to be really enjoying making everyone laugh.

After a massive amount of petitioning we were finally allowed our picnic.

We had to wait until almost twelve o'clock....disgraceful!

After lunch it was off to see the Lemur's.

We love the Lemur's in their free range enclosure:

We were very quiet and gentle and managed to get quite close to them.

Not as close as my little friend here would have liked to have got to me though:

He followed me up and down the window seat, all the while clutching his little bit of salad that he was nibbling on.

Parks, did we mention that there were plenty of parks to play on?

Here I am on the 'Children over 8 years old' section of the playground:

There were some really good swings too, we could both go on this one together:

Blimey it went high though:

That was down to good pushing and a lot of screamed encouragement on our part though!
We headed back through the park, taking in the last few enclosures we'd not seen already.
The highlight being one of the chimps who decided that clapping his hands, waggling his lips and then banging on the glass to frighten unsuspecting passers by was a worthy form of entertainment.
I asked if we could just stay in this saturday night and have an early night.  Well it would make a change for once.  I got my wish after we'd watched some saturday night tv.
I dragged all my bedclothes downstairs on Sunday morning for a lengthy cuddle up session with Poppy and the TV.
I joined in when I got up.
Then I helped Mum and Dad with some gardening out the front.
While I played Cool Math Games on the computer.
We rode our bikes up to the Wash Common park in the afternoon.
We had a lovely climb/play/swing before heading home.
Where I decdied to have a proper good good bike crash riding back down the farmers field.
And I really let Dad down when I spent the whole descent talking to mum about Roundheads and Cavaliers instead of charging down the hill on my bike.
Back to school on Monday, the week has started well for me as i earned and extra two golden time minutes.
We had a visit from a real and proper author, Simon Murray who wrote the Icky Doo Dah books.  It was really good and i've been drawing some rather brilliant Icky Doo Dahs myself.  After school cross country club went well.  I came second (to a year six) at this weeks non-race-race.  Maxim's Mum who teaches us told Dad how well i'd run when he got there to pick me up. 

Yay we're back!
After a short lay off.
Lots to catch up on, better get going!
I had Jess' birthday party two Tuesdays ago.  Jess and I are really good friends at the moment so this was really exciting, especially as we'd had all day at school to work up to it as well.
We had to go and drop Ellis off before we even picked Mum up from work, I wanted to stay of course, well, it was at Eddie Katz!
Eddie Katz indeeed.  We love Eddie Katz.  I didn't give them a backwards glance and didn't even notice they'd left.
I did, we picked Mum up and then had to go to some really boring shops to kill time unti Ellis was ready to be picked up.  The only savng grace was that I got to see Louise, my friend from school eating her tea in Sainsbury's cafe.
It was a brilliant party of course.
At least I got to have a sneaky go on the blue slide when we went to pick Ellis up.
Fast forward to Friday then, the last day of term.  I was surprised to see Mum and Dad sat at the back of the hall when we went into Assembly.  I gave them a little wave of course and sat down...but not for long.  I was first one up to collect my special award..it was of course the end of term award assembly.  Mine was for 'Improvement in Reading' What an understatement! I'm all over this reading lark these days.  I got to stand up in front of the whole school and all the mums and dads with a massive grin on my face.
Friday night was party night, Alastair, Tegan and Tilly's disco party to be exact.  In the school hall too.
I managed to get an invite as well as a guest of Lola (Tegan's sister), I was so excited about it, Ned was not a happy boy though, I think he thought I might cramp his style or something?
Hmmmmm, it wasn't fair.  Still, as soon as we got there, Ellis started dancing and hassling older boys, leaving me to get on with having tattoos and eating sweets.  I managed to cause quite a stir with my dance moves too.  I got heavily paparrazzi'd during my perfomance and won several bags of cola bottles during the best dancer competition.
Indeed he did, he was pretty good actually.
When Dad came to pick us up he claimed he'd taught me everything I know of course....
We'd danced ourselves to a standstill and crashed out in the hall when we got in:

Bit of a strange one on Saturday....we had way more fun than we should have had.

Yeah, seeing as we went sofa shopping!

Apparently Ned and I don't generate quite as much mess as we used to so this is becoimg an actual possibility.

We went and looked at a few, I didn't like any of them.

I wasn't nearly so fussy and was quite happy to trial snuggle any of them.

Lunchtime was cool as well, we finally got to try out our pull down tables in the car in anger for our Marks and Spencer picnic. Two dry french bread rolls and some crisps for me.

Plain ham sandwich for me. Replenished, we went to some other furnitre shops, Dad helped break the tedium by giving us a variety of novelty carries and lifts.

Although the sofas with electric recliners were massive fun, but apparently we can't have one of those...booo.

We went over to Laura's house in the evening so the grown ups to could play cards.

Darcey had already turned in for the night which was a shame, nevertheless I had a great time with Faye and Abi making cosy beds on the floor.

We had a quiet sunday to get over our two late nights and the exciting events of the next couple of days.

The Auntie Christine sleepover no less.

Yes indeed, the first two days of the holidays were spent away from home.

We packed all our stuff up and dropped Mum off halfway to work.

Darcey was there too so that made up for not seeing her on Saturday night:

We did loads of cool stuff of course, including a trip to Eddie Katz to show Darcey the ropes!

I got to have a bath with her too, and got to snuggle into this towel that Ned reckons made me look like a smurf:

We'd packed our teddies of course:

Which we needed when we bedded down for the night. 

Ellis wont he argument to secure herself the ready bed when it dawned on me that I was too big for it nowadays:

So after a lovely sleep it was time for round two.  Equally cool with a trip to the park:

And the discovery centre:

We also played loads of cool board games (especially Sorry).

And of course there was the baking, amongst the loaves of bread and fairy cakes was my rather brilliant hedgehog cake:

Mum and Dad came to collct us on Tuesday night and quite honestly we weren't that fussed, they could have left us longer!

Yeah, we had a lovely time, thanks Auntie Christine, Uncle Ian, Laura and of course Darcey.

Mum had a day off with us Wednesday, we had a morning of lazing about and playing computer games.

We made a two tone jelly too!

And my request for the day was to go swimming, so as soon as dad was home from work we packed up and headed west to the Oasis.

We hadn't been for a while, it was great of course.

Last time we came the flume slides were having a bit of a makeover, this time they were all finished and I was raring to go.  Dad and I were the only ones to go on all three slides, two of them head first and the other was the new super fast and dark one.  I caused quite a stir going on it as everyone thought I was too little, the lifegaurd said I was okay to go on it though so I did.  Twice.

It was one the coolest water slides ever, it had clear dots at the top that looked like stars shooting past as you slid down and then a stripey section which made it look like you were going back in time or something.

We had a choice of holiday clubs for the last two days of the half term, either the one at school or Dragon club...we went for Dragon club.

Turned out to be a great choice, they have Wii dancing games and loads of girls to hang out with.

It was my first time going there and I loved it too, even if I did have to scoot myself (nearly) all the way there.

Dad didn't rush to pick us up and we were happy about that, especially as he'd done the Tesco shop without us, what a lucky escape.

It was Pyjama party day at Dragon club on friday, even the grown ups joined in!

We had suxch an action packed morning (including a hot chocolate session) that we were pretty late having lunch.

So when Dad arrived we were all still sat around the table having a very civilized luncheon.....in our PJ's, with painted faces!

We were on a bit of a tight schedule though, there was horse racing on in the afternoon and I really wanted to go.  So after we fought our way through the traffice we made it in time for a couple of races at least.

And a quick meet up with Darcey.....yay!

We got a good view right down the front, a good view of selections NOT winning any races.
From the races it was a quick dash accross town for swimming lessons.
I'd rather have stayed at the races to be honest.
And then it was pick mum up form work and meet up with John and Sarah at Pizza Hit in the evening.
What a great day....except for the swimming lessons.
It was good fun seeing John and Sarah, we can't wait for summer to see them again.
An early start on Saturday morning for a trampoling session at Northcroft, hat was my idea.  I really miss my afternoon trampolining sessions, school really does get in the way of stuff.
I loved it too, I went well high and had some good tricks to show off.
It took me a while to get back into it really, buty I was soon back to my best.
After the bouncing was finished we took a couple of past their best loaves of bread to the canal to feed the ducks.
Even though Dad did his best to scare them off!
In the afternoon Dad and I made a super chocolately cheesecake before I went up to my room and made my first ever solo Scalextric track.
While Mum took me to see my friend Ron.  I don't get to see him in the mornings since I started school so it was good to catch up.
Then in the evening we went to see the Halfords.  It's been ages since we've all met up so it was really good fun. 
Leo and I were quite the double act.
Yeah, a great double target for Max and I to use for rifle practice amongst other things.  We had a You Tube silly videos session which was really funny.
We had a mass lie in in Mum and Dads bed on Sunday morning, it was nice actually.
But we got bored soon enough, and it turned out to be a rather creative sort of day.  We decided we wanted to make a stage for a pupper show between us.
Using and old box, severl hundred tons of glitter and some other random things we could find.
There were a few instances of artistic differences but we managed to get it done before Grandad, Anne, Alan and Hayley came for lunch:

They got treated to a very special performance once we'd finished eating!

Monday then, back to school.

I didn't mind, I had a good day actually, I got an extra minute of golden time for being really sensible and sitting nicely reading my book.

And I had after school cross country club.  We had a race of sorts around the field 4 times, I came second out of all the year threes so I was pretty pleased about that.  There's a lot of talk about some inter-school race thats coming up, fingers crossed I get picked for that.

Finally we've caught up on videos with some leftover Christmas stuff can be viewed here:

And the fuits of my first filming trip to the Butterfly Farm on my new camera can be seen here:

We walked home with Max and Henry last wednesday, I love Henry, even if he is in year 6.

It was cool, I got to do some bunny hops on his scooter and everything.

It's nice having older friends.  After that it was time for dancing, I was particularly excited for some reason this week.

Yeah, so excited you fell asleep in the car on the way there and had to be woke up!

I was just re-charging so I could give it my all.  Once we got home I was still mad keen so put Ned through a few basic toe pointing moves:

He was pretty rubbish at it to be honest.
Yeah, but once she'd gone up to bed I put a few of my own moves down in the front room with some music i'd picked off the computer.  I'm getting pretty good at finding my way around Spotify these days.
We had a pretty standard week after that really, nothing too exciting to report.
We were forced out for a ruddy walk on Saturday, even though it was stupidly cold.
Yay, I love walks, even cold ones.
We went to Snelsmore, I have to admit the ice was pretty cool:

The ice on the animals drink trough was so thick I could stand on it:

Even better than the animals drink, the pond was frozen over too.  Once Dad had tested the ice, we ventured out for a little skate about:

Although I preferred scrambling up and down the steep, dirty bank:

We had a top result on Sunday though, an all dayer at JJ's!
With lunch!
We stayed for hours, didn't even bother Mum and Dad to come and play much either.
No, we played with each other mostly which was a bit unusual but very fun.  I  love the drop slide but was a bit too scared to go from the very highest one, maybe next time?
My second week of cross country club today, me and Dylan are the two fastest year threes for sure.
We got there in time to see them do their end of session fun relay race.  Ned ran the first leg very impressively it must be said.
We took the win of course!