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.....
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