The end of term feeling is well and truly upon us.....
Yeah, school has really wound down and we're loving it.
We had a special assembly to honour our sporting achievements, I was seriously excited about the prospect of finally receiving a medal for our quad kids third place team result although I tried to keep a lid on it to limit my potential disappointment. I was so pleased when they called us up on stage to actually get the medals, it had been a loooong wait that's for sure.
We had our end of term disco after school, which of course meant cool clothes to change into and loads and loads of glowsticks.
We sent Dad to Tesco to source materials for our end of term thank you offerings to our teachers, both of which were leaving to work at other schools!
Yeah, I made Mrs Khosla a lovely bunch of tissue paper/pipecleaner flowers with a thank you note attached.
And I made Miss Walsh a lovely card with a massive smiley face on the front and some words I came up with all by myself inside.
Wednesday:
The last day of term!
Juniors get kicked out first....yes!
We weren't far behind though.
So that's year 4 done for me and upper school beckons. Only two years left before big school.
And i'm all done with year 1, next stop, year 2, the last one at infants before I move up to juniors.
So that's it, six weeks off and the sun was shining.
We spent the afternoon down the park, there were loads of us down there so it was a good afternoon.
It was such a good afternoon I decided I was too worn out for Athletics club....well, it is the holidays and I needed a rest.
Thursday:
So our first day off, Mum was home, a good start!
We made the most of our lay in, the telly and the PC for games.
We also managed a trip to the library, we stayed for ages.
And I got swept up with the excitement of the summer reading challenge. To be honest, I have done in previous years too.....and then failed to even read a single book. This year will be different though!
When Dad came home I finally got to call in my good school report treat and we had our long anticipated trip to JJ's.
Yeah, and even though I claimed I didn't want to go, we had a great time.
For the first time ever, I went from the highest seat of the drop slide! I was so pleased with myself.
We even stayed for tea, a treat indeed.
Good job we did too, she had a cool new reclining chair that was just the right size for me and my little sister.
We were happy to oblige of course.
We loved it, and didn't really leave until quite late....
Friday:
Mum was off again with us.
So we had another lovely relaxed day.
But the most exciting thing was Hugo coming round for a sleep over. I was so excited about it, i'd made sure i'd put our food and entertainment order in and everything was set. We picked him up and played in the park at Northcroft while Ellis was doing her swimming lesson. We then headed home for a pizza/garlic bread/chips/smiley faces (and salad for Hugo and Ellis) binge. We ate LOADS between us. Then it was super gooey chocolate mousse with bits of cake in it, caramel and god knows what else too. We played on the PC, we watched DVD's and we played guitar at about 12:20pm....awesome! There sure was a lot of laughing.
Saturday:
We didn't get up until just after 8 o'clock, not bad considering our late night. We had a lovely leisurely breakfast buffet before heading out into the garden for a trampoline session.
Now i'm bigger and heavier i'm able to get a lot more bounce going, but I soon got bored of he boys nonsense and came in to do some work on Monkeys house with Dad:
We had a quiet afternoon and watched a DVD, Rango.
It wasn't all that good really, probably why it was only £3 in Sainsburys I suppose.
Abbie and Faye came round in the evening, we had a lovely time.
Even if I did fall asleep on my bed while we were all watching a DVD!
Sunday:
Another lay in was required of course.
And then we headed off to a place called Hollycoombe, a working steam museum.
This was obviously a place Mum had been to when she was a nipper.
We had a lovely picnic when we got there, sat in the very scenic car park overlooking rolling farmland.
And then we headed in, when it says that it's a working museum, it is in actual fact a permanent fair ground, but all the rides are from the olden days and powered by steam.
...and something called a 'Razzle Dazzle' which was great fun squashing Dad until I fell of the seat and ended up rolling around the floor.
Yeah, you had to be careful, being old fashioned stuff there weren't really any seatbelts!
But best of all was the Steam Yacht, kind of like a mini pirate ship ride.
But with no seat belts! It was truly crazy.
The man asked us if we wanted to go high, of course, we said yes!
He wasn't joking either, there was only us 4 and another two blokes in there and he really cranked it up. It was going so high we were leaving our seats on every swing.
Mum couldn't even let go for long enough to take a picture.
We were in total hysterics when we finally got out, I think the ride operator looked rather pleased with himself.
My highlight had to be the man handing out peacock feathers to all the kids as the place closed down for the day. It was so beautiful when it caught the sunshine.
Even better news was that we can go back again for a whole year for nothing now we have our tickets.
Monday:
A day off with Dad.
So no chance of an easy day with a lay in followed by a few hours of telly.
Nope, by the time we were up he'd already made and packed the picnic and loaded our bikes into the car.
We went to a brand new, only just opened BMX track near Eastleigh.
It was great fun too, there was a nice little pump track to get warmed up on and then the full size main track to have a go on.
Add in a small skatepark and a playground and we were well pleased.
We found a nice shady spot under a tree for our picnic, next to the playground.
Anyway, it turned out okay in the end, they had a rather cool cafe.
They did, so we sat and had a a nice cold drink and some lovely cake.
Before we ventured into the shop and bought ourselves new lunch bags and drink bottles for the new term starting in Spetember.
Seemingly pretty boring, but we were well chuffed with them.
Tuesday:
Auntie Christine's today, nice! It was also gymnastics and this week I passed my level 6 test! Another certificate and badge for me!
And then in the evening after tea we headed off for a walk down to the canal.
Well, we took our bikes, Mum and Dad walked.
Wednesday:
Dragon club this time.
Yeah, I ran the tuck shop and got made 'Super Dragon' so it was a very good day for me.
As we'd ridden there in the morning, Dad came to pick us up on his bike...meaning we had to ride home.
Awesome.
Yeah, we stopped off at Victoria Park for a bit of a play before heading back along the tow path.
We timed it just right too, as we crossed the railway bridge an inter-city thundered underneath us, it made the whole bridge shake.
We were all too soon at home, we love riding back.
Thursday:
If we were expecting another lazy day with her we were in for a shock!
Indeed we were, first off it was Marks and Spencers cafe.
Then it was a trip to the cinema to see Chimpanzee.
This was really rather good, we loved it.
Even though it was happy, then sad, then happy and then sad again. A bit of a rollercoaster ride then really.
A quick visit to the Entertainer toy shop for a little treat (trash packs for me).
(And a super cute mini cuddly lion for me).
Next up was lunch in pizza hut.
And the back to auntie christine's house for a lovely hot sunny afternoon splashing about in the paddling pool and cake baking (on mums request)
What a packed day, awesome, thanks a lot Auntie Christine.
Although you really don't have to go all out like that all the time, we still love a lazy day you know.
Friday:
We had another day at dragon club, sadly we missed water day, but it was america day instead.
We weren't entirely sure what that was supposed to entail, but we enjoyed playing a game of American football.
And making ourselves milkshakes, even though we accidentally sort of ate Chloe's biscuits (Hayley's sister helps out at Dragon Club sometimes). I was also awarded te title of super dragon for the day, I was well chuffed.
Things went from good to great as it was fun week at swimming lessons.
Not for me it wasn't, my mate Edward is off on his holidays, so I didn't get to hang out with him this week.
Saturday:
Another lazy morning, nice.
Then after lunch it was off to pick Andy up and take him to the Oasis swimming pool.
We hadn't been for a while so I was well excited about a slide session.
We did the usual trick of not wearing our coloured bands and staying in for ages.
Which was just as well as the wave machine was in short supply!
We made Andy stay for tea and then went to Kimi and Marney's new house.
Yeah, it's cool they've moved much closer to us now.
They have a lovely big garden now, we had a great time out there with no grown ups to bother us. Hence mine and Marneys little paddling session in the fish pond.
And Kimi now has Skylanders so that was us boys sorted.
Add into that the two cats and the fish tank and we had a great time.
Sunday:
Having acquired a tiny blister on my little toe I managed to get approval for a new pair of trainers. This of course, meant a trip to Kingston.
But things didn't start well, there was a bike race on and all the roads into town were closed.
Mum asked a policeman what we could do and he suggested we could park up and walk into town as it was only five minutes away.
So tha'ts what we did, it turned out to be quite an adventure as it goes. The roads were all shut, there were classic cars on display and loads of people on bikes milling about.
We walked over the Thames bridge and realised he race itself wasn't going to be too far away.
We decided the best course of action was to act like the french would, buy some nice fresh bread, some cheese and wait by the roadside.
We didn't need to wait long, soon enough there was a steady stream of policemen on motorbikes high fiving the crowds and parping their sirens.
And then the peloton arrived, totally gunning it, round the corner, over the bridge and gone to complete their 140 mile race back into London. There were plenty of big names competing from the Olympics and the Tour De France. It was all very exciting.
Once it had gone by, we started on our pudding, giant meringues:
We mooched around a few more shops and really enjoyed the toy section of Bentalls before heading back on the long walk back to the car.
I bounced along of course, the power of new trainers!
Monday:
Another day in the company of auntie Christine.
Yes indeed, and Darcey too.
We had a lovely time with her, playing games in the pub garden and enjoying our lunch together.
Before a play on the park on the way home, we'd worn her out so while she had a siesta and we did some colouring.
There was also a tangible amount of pre-holiday excitement.......
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