Tuesday:
We did circus skills at school today.
We did, a great big circus big top had appeared on the juniors sports field.
Yeah, all over our running track!
Never mind Ned, it's worth it. We had a great time learning some circus skills. I especially liked the 'devil sticks'
And I think I may have had my name put down for some ribbon twirling action, hopefully marking me out to perform to the whole school on Friday.
Sadly, we didn't get to have a go on the trapeze though.
We also had another rounders session, I did rather well, smacking the ball off into the bushes. I was one team captain, Alastair was the other. We emerged victorious by half a rounder.
As an end of season treat we had lollies after netball, just the job on such a hot day, lovely.
I wish we had ice lollies at gymnastics, I was cooked!
Mum and Dad came good on the trip to pizza hut in recognition of my excellent school report. I knew they'd come good. It was lush, or rather it was well Epic, as all good things are at the moment.
For once I was allowed an exotic sundae for pudding, but sadly I missed the sparkler as I was in the toilet and it had burned out by the time I came back.
Mum and I missed it too, we were also in the toilet.
I'm sure Dad enjoyed the spectacle, alone.
Wednesday:
I managed to swerve school dinners today, yes! Sandwiches for lunch and tea, Mum and Dad didn't really approve though.
I found out that I had indeed been picked for the circus. There were a few remarks made at school about the nature of the act I was involved in. Apparently ribbon twirling isn't particularly cool? Whatever, I reckon they were just jealous anyway.
I came home and made a load more origami dogs of varying sizes to keep the original one happy.
Thursday:
Unlucky ribbon twirling haters, all the while you were doing boring old literacy or something I got to hang out at the circus instead, working out our moves for the show.
I did some more origami dogs, and showed them to the Tesco delivery man, I think he was rather impressed with them.
It was my parents evening that night.....I knew I had nothing to worry about after my report.
We had a great time playing games in the ICT suite.
And we did't want to come home when Mum and Dad were done.
Friday:
It was circus performance day, we got to spend the morning practicing too, yay, yet more literacy dodging.
I was a bit disappointed I didnt get to perform, but there were very few picked from the infants, maybe next time.
It was a packed house (tent) come show time, there were loads of parents, including Dad as well as the whole rest of the school.
Yeah, I was surprised to see Dad hanging about, I gave him a wave and took my seat to be dazzled and amazed by my big brothers skills.
All us performers sat together on one of the stands close to the stage, the team spirit amongst us was very strong and we were having a great time. The perfomrance went really well on the whole and I thoroughly enjoyed it, I was so glad I got picked to take part.
Once it was all done and Ned had finished milking the audience for all it was worth in a series of very theatric bows we had to go back to class.
Us performers were allowed to be signed out early to our parents if we wanted...result! Although when we wandered back out of the school grounds I noticed that all my friends were playing 'King ball' in the playground for their golden time.....I decided to stay on and let Dad sit and baste in the afternoon sunshine.
When I came home from school, I had my school report to take home....but good news this year, i'd done really well! Of course, a treat was in order, but seeing as Ned had already done Pizza Hut last week, I decided I wanted a trip to JJ's. This was accepted as a suitable outing, although not until the weather was so nice as it gets really hot in there. I decided this was pretty reasonable, so will have to make sure I don't forget. Then it was on to swimming, I was on a mission this week, and completed my front crawl width of the big pool without touching the ground once. This apparently drew plenty of compliments from the other watching Mum's by all accounts.
And instead of Mum arriving and us going home, Mum arrived with a picnic and we headed out to the outdoor pool. It was most refreshing, even if it was a little tiny bit manky. The best thing was that you were still allowed to dive in at the deep end!
I loved it, it was cool to have my lesson and then go swimming with everyone.
Then to top off a good day, I once again took the title of Lord Of Catan. How cool is it when you have 2 vistory points hidden away as development cards? Brilliant.
Saturday:
Bit of a lay in and then.....STRAWBERRY PICKING!
We hadn't been for years, so it was brilliant to go.
Indeed, as I wandered up the field I proclaimed it the best day ever (I use this quite a lot truth be told).
We only 'sampled' a few before we paid too.
They were lovely though, hiding underneath the leaves ready to be picked.
We had a lovely lunch at home, finished off with masses of eton mess!
Then in the afternoon we went to watch the circus proper, not us kids performing.
We got great seats at the front.
Although it was rather hot in the big top.
The acts were great, particualrly the ones where the ladies went very high up in the tent on the trapeze or whatever.
And the juggler was very good too. I even got to join in a bit again as I was chosen as a stand in acrobat.
Hence another very theatrical bow session when he was finished.
We went home and had a session on the Wii (even though the grown ups wouldn't play), before we decided we should go to the pub for a nice cold drink in the evening.
Yeah, it was lovely, even if we were billy no mates and no one else we asked could make it.
Sunday:
Work finally got underway on the house for my cuddly monkey, it's been long enough! We made a good start though so I can't complain.
While this was going on I had to do my homework....boo hoo! Still, it's nearly the end of term I suppose.
It was another hot day so we decided to head to Legoland to try out the new waterpark area. I thought it was totally brilliant.
I wasn't quite so convinced, truth be told it was far too busy and noisy for my liking and I also think I might just have been a little bit old for it. Having said that, standing under the massive bucket when it emptied with Dad was seriously refreshing.
We dried off, had a picnic under the railway bridge and then came home.
Without even going on any other rides.
It was still rather warm when we got home, so we managed to get Mum to have a water fight with us.
It was awesome of course.
Monday:
I got another shell for doing over a whole page of writing....it was under threat of not being allowed out for playtime though.
In the afternoon we performed three routines for our end of show dance performance, great fun, although I did take it rather seriously at times (as you could see from the concentration on my face apparently). At the end we were all presented witha lovely shiney medal for our efforts this year.
And we had our final week of quad kids club. With the added bonus of water pistol races and rocket lollies. A great way to end a most enjoyable season.
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