It was finally my birthday! I was so relieved it was finally here as I was having real trouble working how how many more days it was right up until the last minute. The only downer was this years birthday location, over recent years i've been in Florida, Barcelona, South Wales and this year? This year I was going to be at school. Oh well, at least I made sure I was up and out of bed before Dad left for work so I could get going on the presents early doors.
School itself turned out to be pretty good actually, I got to lead all the lines during the day and the whole infant school sang happy birthday to me in assembly. It was straight back to dancing after school, we did the pyjama song and loved it....lots of shouting involved!
We picked Mum up from work, had a quick change and then headed to Pizza Hut to find Aunty Christine, Laura and Darcey had invited themselves along too, I was obviously overjoyed at this.
Yeah, Ellis' birthday, boooring. Except Pizza Hut, that was okay of course.
We went home for birthday cake (after i'd had a bowl of smarties from the ice cream factory, ice cream? who needs that?), of course Mum got me a lovely Colin the Catterpillar with no jam in it. I hate jam.
Tuesday:
Mum had the day off work, with a bad back! Most unlike her, she's usually pretty robust.
I think she's blaming it on shifting the post holiday suitcases around to clear the washing backlog.
I took some time to digest my avalanche of lovely presents i'd recieved from everyone so far.
Until we had to go to the dentist. We LOVE going to the dentist still, it's all so exciting.
Everything was okay in that department and once we got home I managed to get Mum to help me stink the house out with my new 'Make your own perfume' kit. It was great fun.
Wednesday:
I was a bit subdued at Team Kennet, the other kids who are off to the competitions got split up from the rest of us for more serious training which put my nose out of joint a bit. I really want to do the serious training, but i'm note sure about the competing quite yet.....we'll have to see how this one pans out.
I took some time to do my home reading with Ned out of the house, i've gone up a level again which I was rather pleased about.
We went to pick him up a bit earlier than usual as it was such a nice evening. I made some friends with a few of the other younger sisters and we had a great time, although our game of piggy in the middle with a large pebble was pretty ill advised on reflection.
Thursday:
Our planned school rounders day seemed to disappear from the day for some unknown reason. Never mind, at least we got a normal day of reading and literacy....hooray! I think not......
With the weather being so nice we went for a walk at Greenham Common after tea.
I didn't want to go, nope, not at all. I didn't want to take my bike either.
I was well up for it of course.
Once we were there I changed my tune rather rapidly. We had a great time razzing about on our bikes while Mum and Dad strolled along....the mugs. I told Mum she really did ought to get herself a bike. Even riding through a wet cow pat didn't spoil it for me too much (there was only a little bit splattered up my back and on my saddle). I found plenty of little jumps and we almost got as far as the Team Kennet track at the far end.
I also loved it, I spent ages riding along with a lovely doggy chatting to his owner. I didn't have such a good time when I realised my new Crocs had rubbed my feet a bit on the sore side though..ouch!
Friday:
I resumed my swimming lessons, there was no Eva this week, but Lois had finally been moved up a group to be in with us. The changing rooms are at long last being renovated so for the meantime we have to use the even worse ones from the outdoor pool, yuck.
We even got to have a quick play in the newly re-done park at Northcroft afterwards, it's pretty cool actually. We couldn't stay long though, it was school disco night and I had to get home and get changed. i loved it of course, when I got home I was bright red and very sweaty from all my dancing. In fact I had such a good time I had even forgotten to whinge about it finishing at half past eight instead of nine o'clock.
Saturday:
We had a lazy morning around the house, pottering about the garden, you know the sort of thing.
But it was the Infant school fete in the afternoon, I couldn't wait....tombola...SWEETS!!!!
Ned was more excited about than me I think? Anyway, we loved it, it was a lovely sunny day as well which was a real bonus. I loved the bouncy castle and the face painting:
And I loved the sweets...oh, and the Alvin and the Chipmunks DVD set I won, which was an amazing coincidence as we'd discovered only yesterday that our one was too scratched to play any more.
Best of all though was helping Mum on the adult tombola stand, we did our best hard sell routines to drag in punters.
Yeah we certainly did, Mum reckoned it was much like an episode of the apprentice whatever that is. My charm offensive worked a treat and we were taking loads of money.
The time seemed to fly by and it was soon enough time to pack up. We helped tidy and put things away before heading for home...
....and then going out to the pub! We went to the Craven with Owen and Andy, meting up with Chris, Kate, Finlay and Milly.
Not forgetting Bailey the lovely little doggie.
Some of our friends from school were there too, Leon, Isobel and Evelyn, brilliant!
We had a great game of football with Ellis' Hello Kitty football.....until it got booted into a particularly dense and prickly hedge never to be found again.
I took it very well it has to be said.
We found another ball in the hedge though so we had a game with that. Dad, Andy, Owen and I had a game of world cup, it was great, we even managed to remain upright sometimes.
Sunday:
Bit of a lay in after the pub the previous night.
But it was finally my Birthday party! It was at Northcroft, we had the bouncy castle (which actually turned out to be a brand new super swanky bouncy pirate ship), gymnastics equipment and then a play in bumpers. All strenuous stuff, and with me feeling a little tired and delicate I had a bit of a sniffle on a couple of occasions. Oh well, I still had a lovely time:
When we got home Alan and Hayley were waiting for us outside....we hadn't seen them for ages so it was really nice to see them and find out what they'd been up to.
After school dance club was 'Ha-ha-ha-ha-staying alive' this week, great fun and plenty of bum wiggling!
And apparently the team has been chosed for quad kids.....but they haven't told us yet!
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