So it looks like summer is finally here, well for now anyway.

It's been lovely, dinner outside every night.  I'm sure it helps to increase my appetite as well?

Having said that, it was pretty hot in the hall for Mr Gilhams sports club on Tuesday after school.  I still enjoyed it though.

And while Ellis was cooped up indoors, Dad and I went out on our bikes.  We didn't have anywhere in particular to go so we headed accross the fields until we ended up at a bridge over the A34.  I love standing on bridges, watching the traffic zooming underneath.  Waving at them down below makes it even more fun, especially when lorry drivers honk or people in convertibles wave both hands above their car!

We had a lovely barbecue for tea with loads of veggies for me...

....and chorizo for me!

Which i've decided I like as well now.

Dancing, another indoor hot activity on Wednesday.

While Dad and I found a shady bench to do my reading.  A bit like eating, reading outside seems to be a much more pleasant experience.  I did loads.

We had a visit from a real life farmer at school on Thursday, the most exciting bit was making our own sausages!

Then finally I had a much more cool and refreshing after school activity on Friday, swimming!

And seeing as I don't have to have lessons anymore, I got half an hour pf playing on the Ipod, brilliant!

I got on really well at swimming, I have a new coloured hat (yellow for level 3) and i'm proper keen on improving as much as I can.

It was also Alans birthday, so we had a trip to Pizza Hut in Reading.

Okay so that was pretty cool in itself, add to that we were giving Andy, Alan and Hayley a lift as well, meaning we had to sit in the very back seats!

Yanna and Fen came along too, we had a lovely time.

And we ate like you wouldn't believe.  I had a bit of a result with my order being mixed up and ended up with two pizzas that I finished (after a garlic bread with cheese) and followed by two bowls of ice cream factory!

Happy birthday Alan!

We loaded up the car and waited for Owen, Laura and Andy to arrive on saturday mornng.

Yeah, after we'd popped into town to get the days free lego from the newspaper!

Anyway, we were off to Birmingham to watch the World BMX championships.

Dad was super excited, and i was pretty keen too!

I wasn't quite so enthralled with the whole thing but it was going to be a night away.

We got to Brum in time for lunch, and once Laura had found a car park that she could get her monster truck we met up at the pub for eats.

Lovely start to proceedings.

Shame the same couldn't be said for our hotel for the night.  Mum really wasn't that pleased with it...we thought it was great though, even if we didn't have enough beds or bedding for us.

Just minor details Mum!

There were groups of riders on their race bikes, wearing their national jerseys just cruising the streets, it was pretty cool to see.

After a bit of wait outside the NIA we headed in, I think we were all pretty shocked at just how cool it looked when we got our first glimpse of the track and the all round set up:

We got good seats where we could see the whole track from.  Practice was already underway and it looked brilliant.

The bikes and the helmets were so shiny under the lights.

They were doing massive jumps and going really fast and it was only practice!

The real racing soon started and the atmosphere was brilliant, especially if someone was racing in a GB jersey.

Although there were so many nationalities watching, it didn't matter who was winning, it was loud all night.

It was a bit of a disappointing start for the home riders with our top Male rider (Liam Phillips) crashing out right in front of us and breaking his collar bone on the first corner of his first race.  Add to this Shanze Reade falling off while leading her quarter final and things definatley took a bit of a slump.  Fortunately though Quillan Isodore restored the noise levels with a win in the 16 year old boys category.

There were some lovely stands selling stuff around the arena too, I had my eye on some rather lovely looking gold wheels and the Troy Lee helmet I tried on fitted a treat.

Add in inflatable banging things, sweets and doughnuts we had a good night.

Even though I was a bit tired by the end of it all.

We headed back to our luxury accommodation and hit the hay.

I decided to wake up at 5 am and have a good old spew as well, nice!

Breakfast was equally hilarious as getting in our room.  Mum again thought it was pretty shocking but we quite liked drinking our juice of of great big tea mugs and the boiling hot bowls fresh from the dishwasher for our cereals.

We headed for home, via a quick photostop at the top of the car park to take in the Birmingham skyline:

Seeing as it was still scorchio and we'd spent most of the weekend inside, we had a family water pistol fight in the garden in the afternoon.

Yeah, I love a water pistol fight, it was brilliant.

Poppy didn't go much on it though.

And then Mum and I had a trip to the park...

While Dad and I slumped on the sofa instead



While Ellis was at after school sports on Tuesday Dad and I did some planting.  We'd already dried out some chili seeds and I was itching to get them planted.  We did those and some wafty salad leaves or another which I wasn't nearly so interested in.  Not that i'll eat the chili's either I suppose, but they just seem a lot more exciting.
I had a cool time with Mr Gilham of course, I also made Dad carry me home on his shoulders, well it's hard work all that running around after school you know.
I decided I wanted a school dinner on Wednesday.  It was lovely as well, roast beef and loads of veggies....perfect.  It was nice, but i made sure I didn't tell Dad it was too nice.
I wasn't nearly so keen on dancing after school on Wednesday.  I just didn't feel like it, but once Dad had pointed out i could have a power nap on the way I gave in and decided to give it a go.  It was okay as well.  I'm still not sure I want to carry on going though.  Mum reckons it's only because i'm tired after school.
I joined in with the school dinner idea on Thursday, well, it was pizza day after all!
I didn't have school dinners, I had a packed lunch as it was school trip day!  We went to a farm park place to see the animals and all that.  Obviously there was also the major excitement of the coach trip as well!  We had a great day, we fed the sheep, saw loads of piggies and had a tractor and trailer ride through some really ooey-gooey mud!
Friday was soon upon us, Dad finally had a good idea for once and suggested that seeing as we'd finished tea early we have a trip to the shop to pick some sweets for pudding.
Yeah, most unlike him that one was!
It was a good trip as well, even if it did take us about three hours to pick what we wanted and I fell off my bike on the way home (no doubt because I was too interested in keeping hold of my chocolate).
We were up and about relatively early on Saturday...it was haircut day!
Yes it was, Even though I wasn't sure I actually wanted a haircut at all, the lure of a lolly isn't as strong as a nice mop of hair to flick for the girls benefit anymore!  Having said that, I couldn't see very well when we went swimming th other week and it gets in the way when i'm running too so it was probably for the best.
I was also indecisive, I decided I was going to have it really short at the back but by the time i'd got to the chair I was growing it out again.  Anyway, I loved it as usual and even managed to get two lollies!!!!
In the afternoon we went to the races, we hadn't been for ages.
I was pretty excited it has to be said, horses, gambling and maths....whats not to like?

I decided to accessorise my hair with some flowers I picked on the way, Dad reckoned they were weeds:

We got right up to the fence even though it was really busy. 

I started the day off really well with a winner in the first race......£38!!!!

Sadly that was the only one we had between us, although I did go really close in almost every race.  I wasn't too bothered though, we had flags to wave!
Yeah, they were giving out flags in the colours of a horse called Frankel that was running, we hadn't heard of him but I think he's a pretty big deal!
We headed home and I helped Dad light the barbecue for tea, even though it was grey and a bit cold.
Well, when I say helped him light the barbecue, I rapidly threw some lit matches at it.
We were a right pair of grumpy little devils on Sunday morning.
Yeah, we were actually.
Peace was restored by a little bit of film watching therapy.
And then Auntie Trish coming for lunch.
I conveniently missed another Gosport BMX club race as well, I think it's safe to say that i've hung up my racing kit after one glorious season.
I couldn't wait to show her my new bedroom, so if you want to know what it looks like you'll have to ask her!
I had my last Quad Kids training session on Monday night after school.
Yeah, we saw you as well Ned, while we were on the way to the park.  You were WALKING round the field yapping to Ali....not much training that is it?
Well, I got picked for the team so I must have been doing something right mustn't I?  Shame I can't go to the competition this Saturday though as we have already made other arrangements......



We've had another lay off, but not because we've been on holiday or anything.

No, not this time, we've just been a bit busy with stuff really.

Anyway, we're back now to catch up on the last couple of weeks.

First news item from me is that i've had to have a new pair of ballet slippers for dancing as my other ones have got a little bit small and the soles a little bit worn.  My new ones are really nice and have fancy velcro straps and everything.  I'll look forward to dancing in them thats for sure.

I had a big assembly two fridays ago.  It was our class' turn to do a bit for the rest of the school.  We put together a varied programme of singing, dancing and powerpoint presentations about our topic for the term, growing (plants).  I had a few lines to say that I delivered very nicely and then had to dance about as the sun to help a plant grow.  Mum came to watch so I was really pleased about that.  Especially as afterwards the parents came up to ou class room for a mooch about and I had to take a plate of biscuits around for the grown ups under strict instructions not to eat them.  Mum managed to negotiate a biscuit for all the kids though, i'm so glad she came along.

Saturday was Darcey's first birthday party.  It was pretty cool as Jack from my class came along too!

I got to impress the kids with my Ipod:

 I gave Uncle Slim his birthday cuddle as his birthday is on the same day as Darceys:

But I think he might have had to have a few more candles than Darcey did:

It was a lovely afternoon and the catering was top notch as you'd expect.

Happy Birthday Darcey!

Sunday was a bit of a full day.

We had Grandad and Anne over for lunch, we fed Grandad until he very nearly popped.

Then we went going along with our singing Aunties to 'Sing Along Sound of Music' at the Corn Exchange in the afternoon.

I had taken a while to be convinced about this one but thought i'd give it a go in the end.

I thought it was really good, if a bit long.

I on the other hand loved it, it was like a panto, we had to cheer, and boo and hold up silly signs...what fun!

And then in the evening Auntie Trish came to babysit for us.

She did, we watched the film Men In Black....

.....we LOVED it.

Then we watched some other stuff, and resisted going to bed.

Well, you did Ellis, I knew when it was time to turn in.

We had a bank holiday on the monday so no school!

We were both very pleased about that.

Especially as it was chucking it down with rain outside meaning we weren't dragged off the sofa, away from the telly to go out anywhere.

That was okay for a while but in the end we cracked and decided that Swimming at teh Oasis was a good idea.

It wasn't, the queue was a mile long accross the road outside.  We decided to give it a miss.

Which was a shock for me when I woke up after my in car snooze to find ourselves at Coate Water country park instead.

Well, the weather had cheered up a bit so it made sense really.  What made it even better was that the miniature steam railway was running.

It was brilliant, you could sit on top of the small coaches and ride around on a proper, albeit very small steam engine.

Sadly we didn't take a camera as we thought we were going swimming so there's no photographic evidence of our trip.

The poor little train struggled a little bit getting us to the top of the small incline on the track, but it came down at a heck of a rate!

Mum was quite worried we'd derail we were going so fast!

We had a bit of a walk, a play on the playground and then headed back to the car.

Not before we saw a mother duck and her babies though, they were seriously cute and we spent ages watching them going about their ducky business.

I did a great brotherly duty on Tuesday when I let Ellis come to stay in bedroom for a while.

Yes Ned, I am very grateful for that, i've moved out so Mum and Dad can decorate my room at long last.  Out go my baby room cast offs from when Ned was born to be replaced by cool stuff for a girl of very nearly five.  All my stuff got moved out and dad painted the ceiling white...not a very exciting colour to b egetting on with but he tells me it'll be smart in the end....

Anyway, with Ellis in my room staory time has been a double header every night.  I 've loved that.

Especially as i'm midway through the BFG.

I love the BFG so i'm happy to hear that again!

Despite Dad especially thinking we'd be up all night messing about we've been really good too!

Wednesday I got to go to a science outing at the Nature Discovery Centre.  There was only a few of us that were picked to go and we went in Mrs Douglas' car!  Super excitement or what?  We had a great afternoon of wildlife and animal based science stuff and even indulged in a spot of fishing.  The trip home was pretty eventful as well, a water main had burst and Hambridge road was flooded.  The water was really deep and we had to drive on the other side of the road to get around it.

All this flooding made them pretty late back and too busy to get past to take me dancing, I wasn't too bothered though and caught up on some rest instead.

It also meant I escaped half an hour of reading in the car with Dad, what a result!

I had a letter on friday....i'd won £25 on my premium bonds, a good start to the weekend!

We tried the Oasis agaion on saturday morning.  This time there was hardly anyone there though so it was brilliant.

I was named king of the slides as I was the only one to go on all of them!

I did well though and once again rode the fastest, scariest one Storm again (Well, they didn't stop me going on this time).

We did some proper swimming as well, in my case to prove I can still do it....I don't want to start lessons again.

Mum taught me some good stuff too, culminating in me swimming miles and miles of backstroke.

There was a lot of jumping in too.

Yeah, loads.

Best of all were our synchronised spinning jumps.

It was well past lunchtime when we got out so we were getting pretty hungry, the decision was made that we'd wait until we got home before we ate...

I was not at all happy with this arrangement and decided crying with hunger was the best course of action.  It didn't really change anything but we did bust out the mint crumbles I suppose.

We had a bounce on the trampoline in the afternoon at home as the rain finallly stopped and the sun came out for a bit!

And then we went to Abi and Faye's for the evening.  We played in the garden.

And we played in the house.  We played hide and seek as well, even though we weren't very good at finding Abi...oops, sorry Abi.

There was a trip to Max and Leo's new house on Sunday morning, we made ourselves at home and played with another kid from up the street.

I'm sure they'll love it there and so will we on future visits.

Then it was on to Alan and Hayley's for lunch, I loved ringing his doorbell for half an hour or so before he finally answered it.

We had a lovely time watching their digital photo frame, there were even some pictures of Alan and Hayley having a kiss!!!!!

Aside from that, and a lovely lunch there was a lot of I-geekery, I-pod, I-tunes, I-pad.  I-loved it!

Back to school today then, quad kids training for me after school, even though I can't go to the actual competition as it's on the same day as the BMX world championships that we've got tickets for.

While Ned was doing that I was overseeing Dad add the finishing touches to my bedroom.  The walls are now a beautiful pink!  He was right, the boring pink ceiling was okay in the grand scheme of things.  We hung my new curtains and got my furniture back in the room..  Apparently a new bed has been ordered for me so i'll not be showing you any pictures of it until thats here I think. You'll just have to take my word for it when I say it's lovely!

I even went as far as to say it was stunning.  I'm a bit sad that Ellis has moved out I think, I had story time in her room with her again tonight to make up for it.....