Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Okay, due to one thing or another we don't actually have any photo's this week.
So you'll have to bear with us this week and just plough through it all i'm afraid.
We'll have some rather shocking news to start off with...I didn't go to dancing on Wednesday as 'my legs hurt'  Well, I said they did anyway.  It had nothing to do with me wanting to hang around in the playground after school with Jess or anything.  Dad explained that if we didn't go straight away we'd miss it for the week and I was quite happy with that.  Well, until about ten minutes after the time it would have finished when i'd decided i'd actually like to go after all.
I had hoped that we wouldn't have to do reading as Dad and I wouldn't have to sit in the car waiting for twinkle toes.  Sadly I had to read at home instead, for a while anyway.
Yeah, Dad decided it would be a good idea to make use of our now free afternoon and get the mothers day cards made!
We were a model of self-restraint and resisted the temptation to smear everything with massive dollops of never-drying PVA and glitter.
We even both did the writing inside all on our own, with no prompting at all from Dad.
I got a red card at school on Thursday, for scrapping with Alastair.  I think it made it worse that we were trying to hit and kick each other in the willy.  But you know how Alastair and I are, this is what we do.  Anyway, Mrs Douglas had to ring Dad and tell him, which I think was rather uncomfortable for both of them.  Oh dear.  Mum wasn't too pleased either, but we all got over it failry quickly and it has been forgotten about now I hope.
We had another trip to the park while Ned was at multi sports.  These are getting rather regular these days, I love it now the weathers getting better.  My classmates Liam and Aidan were there again but they weren't having such a good time as me.  They were crying, about everything, almost all the time.  I don't think it helped that their Mums seemd to find this hilarious.  In addition to this they gave them the advice to be a bit more like Ellis and get on with climbing/playing/swinging or whatever it was we were doing and their misery was pretty well compounded.
Mr Jones has been busy at school crafting a new putting green tucked away in a corner of the playing field.  Myself and Hugo got to be the first ones to test it out on Friday and it was really cool.  I'll hopefully be able to put some practice in before the crazy golf season kicks in for real in the summer.
Saturday was a momentous day of the year, Legoland was open again!
Despite concerns we had over the weather and the potential amount of people being there (due to it being the first weekend and their new hotel opening) we made the pilgrimage.
An emergency toilet stop helped keep both me and Mum dry.
While Dad and I rode the water boat slide ride thing, both of us getting totally soaked through (Dad whineing about it much more than me of course).
But after that it was ride after ride after ride.
And with no sign of the wet weather or massive crowds we pretty much went on whatever we wanted without any queueing up.
One highlight was certainly the underwater Atlantis ride, the sharks and massive rays were really good.
And after the ride the walkthrough aquarium was brilliant as well, we got to stroke a real live Sea Cucumber (For the record it was very slimy, rather unsurprisingly).
As usual we stayed until it closed, but instead of finishing our visit in the company of Larry on Rocket Racers we visited the new Star Wars miniland walkthorough (a load of Lego models of star wars scenes).  I loved it, but sensed the rest of the family were not quite so keen.  I had to agree that I preferred Larry though.
Mothers day on Sunday, and what do mums really want?  A nice early wake up visit from their excited son?  Of course they do....well it was just past 7am wasn't it?
Well you won't catch me up that early on a Sunday morning thats for sure, especially after me little legs have walked me all around Legoland the previous day (with no whingeing I hasten to add).
Ellis eventually got up and we showered Mum with gifts and cards!
We didn't do much in the morning, Mum read to us and we had a cuddle up, watched a bit of telly and what have you.
We had our usual weekend trip to Waitrose for bread rolls for lunch.
Then we put our tent out in the garden and kitted it out inside for maximum slouching comfort.
We had a little trip out on the bikes in the afternoon. 
We got as far as the park off Enbourne road when I got smacked full in the lip while dismounting the spring loaded motorbike.  It made a lot of blood....I was reluctant to use my blankie (which was tucked safely into my bike basket).  A quick think Mum used one of her socks instead to stem the flow.  Thanks Mum.
Oh it really wasn't very nice, poor Ellis, even I was sympathetic this time.
I rode back sat on Dads shoulders while Mum carried my bike.  By the time we'd got to Fifth Road park i'd made a remarkable recovery so we stopped off there for a play.  My friend Matilda from school was there.  We had a great time winding Ned up and calling him silly names.
God they were annoying.
We got home and watched Take Me Out from saturday night on the computer before having tea and heading for bed.
I've got two achievements to brag about this week.  First of all i've learned handstands.  I was sick of ALlastair lookign cool doing them at school so i've been practicing on and off for ages (Dads been grabbing my legs on occasion too).  But now i've got it down unaided.
Secondly i've been picked for the school cross country team (even if I had a hurty foot today and didn't perform quite as well as usual).  We've got a the schools cross country championships next week, I think i'm looking forward to it....