Tuesday

Mum had the day off, we love it when that happens.

Yeah, lay in's, good food, cuddle time!

We also did some numeracy and literacy for fun!

We did, and we loved it.

We made our way into town after lunch to meet up with Dad and go to the cinema.

We watched Mr Peabody and Sherman that we had been excited about for ages.

Turned out the grown ups didn't rate it very highly, we didn't care, we enjoyed it.

Auntie Trish came round to babysit in the evening, a treat indeed especially as it was a week day too.

We do love having a chat with her.

Wednesday

Another day with Auntie Christine.

This time with added Auntie Trish too, bonus!

We had anorher trip to the cinema, this time to see the Lego Movie.

We were super excited about it.

Mum and Dad really weren't keen on this one, but it was brilliant, We all reckoned they'd missed out.

We had a trip to the pub for lunch afterwards, what a lovely day out it was.

Thursday

Dragon club today, brilliant!

It was pretty soggy on the way in but we didn't mind.

We both had a brilliant time, I played Minecraft on the Xbox.

And I spent the day making cards, and a lovely decorated box to keep them in.

Friday

Another day at Dragon club.

I got to play even more Xbox as there wasn't so many in.

I got my nails painted, did some making, some painting and made some jewellery.

We also built dens, very extensive dens.

And raced each other on our scooters.

It was all great fun.

Straight from there to swimming lessons.  We had some trainee teachers tnis week, there was more of them so we had one between two of us.  This worked out brilliantly for me and I really pushed on.

I saw Edward and got blamed by his Mum for getting him and by the sounds of it his Dad into Minecraft.

We packed up a few things, picked Mum up from work and headed away for the weekend.

Butlins this time!

Yeah, after a near miss (Alton Towers had most of the rides closed, that will have to keep for another time) we headed for Bognor Regis.

We were booked into the Wave hotel, and we were very impressed when we arrived.
Yeah, I was by the cars in the car park!  There was a lovely Bentley.

There was a brilliant waterfall thing in the lobby, I loved poking my fingers into it even of it did make the floor a little wet.

Even better than that was a games room, full of Playstations and Wii's:

It was pretty cool it has to be said:

But not as cool as our room.

Apart from all the usual stuff there was an awesome balcony overlooking the whole place.

Never mind that, the best thing was our bedroom, with our own door with a porthole, not just another bed in the main room. Not only that we had a bunk bed, each with our own telly at he bottom of it.

It was amazing it has to be said.

We went out for a bit of a walk, found the arcade and this rather massive deck chair:

Then went to bed, in an exciteable state, keen to get our personal telly's on and snuggle down for the night.

Saturday

We woke up the next day to glorious sunshine:

And we were off to the swimming pool.  It was rather good too.
There were loads of slides, water jets, showers and all the rest of it.
As well as a lazy river with inflatable tubes to bob around on.
The highlight was definitely the space bowl though.  I had to blag this one a bit as the age limit was set to over 8's but I made the height restriction so got away with it.
It was brilliant, I went first and after several trips around the bowl flopped into the splash pool head first, just like you're supposed to.  I took my position poolside to laugh at Dad as he plopped out with very little finesse.
Then it was my turn, the lifegaurd asked if I could swim, I replied in a confident manner that I could and then I was off.  I'm not going to lie, it was pretty scary stuff, the flume into the bowl got faster and faster until I popped out, shot round and round and round before plopping through the hole.  I made a swift and confident exit of the splash pool to make it look convincing and then met up with Dad and Ned to admit that it was so scary I nearly pooed myself, but at the same time it was totally awesome!
We then stoood and waited for Mum to appear, she did, upside down, soon followed by a spectacular splash.  We laughed our heads off.
With the sunshine beating in through the roof it felt lovely in the pool, but once we got back to the changing room the harsh reality of it still being February kicked in, the floor felt freezing on our poor little feet!
We headed back to the hotel.  I stopped off at the Games Port of course, it was so cool in there.
And I headed back to the room, where we found this cute little doggie made from a towel left on the bed:

Pretty much the coolest thing i'd ever seen I reckon?

We took lunch on the balcony, shielded from the wind and in lovely sunshine, I think Mum thought she was actually on holiday or something:

After lunch we hit the fairground, first up was the Twister, always a winner.

Yeah, we thought it was really slow at first, but the speed certainly crept up and we were soon pinning Mum or Dad to the outside of the seat.

Next up was the 'Trabant' or withces hat or whatever it was called. 

This was apparently Dad's favourite when he used to come here as a kid:

I can see why too, it was awesome, fast, spinny and it went right up on it's side.

Then on to his least favourite.......

Apparently he used to hate this when he was forced to go on it with Auntie Trish.  God knows why, it was brilliant:

Sadly the dodgems weren't working, which was a pity.

Never mind though, it was cool not having to pay for any of it and having as many goes as we liked.

We loved these wooden donkey.

We really loved these wooden donkeys, we sat on them every time we went past!

Next up we went to the main theatre to watch Dick vs Dom!

Yeah, the Dick and Dom from the telly, we were so excited about it, we didn't even realise they were on when we booked the weekend.

We went to sit down in the 'mosh pit at the front' and left Mum and Dad back in the seats.  They then announced that we might get messy down the front and we were only to stay there if our Mum and Dad were okay with that.....of course, we stayed well and truly put!

The show was hilarious and involved a series of silly games between team Dick, our side, and team Dom.

This lead to lots of Dick based jokes that the adults seem to find hysterically funny.

Sadly I didn't get up on stage to take part in any of the events despite trying my hardest, but I did manage to get covered in the crud and custard pies that got thrown around:

It really was a great fun show.

To top it off we got to get an autograph and a photo with them afterwards:

They were really nice chaps and we were proper chuffed to meet them and get our stuff signed, chers Dick and Dom.

It was really cool, we'd only just watched Genius that very morning too!

Next up was a quick go on the arcade, the highlight being this doubles air hockey:

Especially when the multi-puck was released and about 50 mini pucks descended onto the table.

They were flying about everywhere!

Well, the grown ups, being as dull as they were wanted to go for a walk along the beach.....it's unfathomable really.

Anyway, I managed to get the room safe to time out by fiddling with it so we couldn't get the car keys out for half an hour (our coats and wellies were in the car).

So by the time we finally left it was starting to get dark.

We really enjoyed it as usual though.  Wandering up the pebbles, throwing them in the sea and having a good old chat as wandered along.

We made it as far as the pier:

 
And then headed back.  Had a quick slouch about in the room.
I hit the games lounge of course.
And then went out to the restaurant for tea.
We had a lovely, civilized family meal too.
We did, it was really rather pleasant actually.
Especially the puddings, Dad really is a gutty pig though, his was massive and he polished off the lot!
We were pretty tired by this point, so we headed back to the room, had a cosy up and watched Ant and Dec's saturday night takeaway on +1.
Then slunk off to watch Take Me Out on out own telly's.

Sunday

Not so sunny today.

Nope, never mind though.  I went to the shop alone to secure the breakfast items. I had a shopping list and everything.  I got all the items required of course and really enjoyed doing something so responsible alone.

We had a lazy morning and then wandered off to the fair for a bit.

I stayed in the Games Port and said i'd come and find them when i'd had my fill of Gran Turismo.

The fair got off to a shaky start when Dad was made to come on the back of my horse on the carousel.  I was not happy about that at all.  Big enough to handle the space bowl at the pool but not ride solo on the horsey.  I endured the ride in total silence and couldn't wait to get off.

I got over it pretty quickly though and decided another go on the Twister was in order.

I arrived just in time to join them.

Which saved me getting wedged in with Mum and Dad on the ride.

Me and Dad ended up opposite Ellis and Mum which was brilliant.

It was, we could briefly wave at each other was we sped past.

Next up some trampoline action:

I then played hook a duck and got a reasonably high number, as I usually do on these chance based games.  I picked my prize, a lovely blue cuddly bird that I christened Tweety.

I had a go, and could only pick from the bottom shelf....as usual.  But there, nestling at the end of the shelf was a pile of whoopee cushions!  Brilliant, i'll take one of those please!

We spent the remainder of our pocket money on a stick of rock each.

We hit the arcade for a bit, I was quite the sharp shooter on this, much to everyones surprise!

I won enough prize tickets (combined with some i'd found laying about) to trade them in for a small packet of sweets, I was cheffed to bits.

I went after a motorbike keyring on the pennyfalls machine and after a lot of effort (and about 70p worth of two pence pieces) it slowly shuddered it's way into the coin trough below, result!

And then headed off for a Pizza Buffet lunch.

Lovely, salad, pizza, garlic bread, perfect.

We ate loads, even though I did drop a big heavy plate on the tiled floor while loading it up with pizza.  It hit me on the toe and then made a hell of a smash.  Everyone cheered of course, I didn't realise you had to cheer when someone publicly smashed something......it upset me a bit.

We ate our fill then waddled back to our room.

I hit the games port of course, until I got wind that there was a hot chocolate on offer in the cafe.

Mum and Dad and I saw that off and went upstairs for a lie down, watching some ice skating on the last day of the Olympics.

I hit the games port again.

And then it was back to the pool for an late afternoon splash about.

It was much less busy than Saturday which was nice.

And that pretty much bought our weekend away to a close.
We had to check round to make sure we'd packed everything, I had a quick snuggle in my cool bunk bed:

I helped load the car up,
While I played games.....
And threw a few shapes in the car park to the music coming out of the security gate hut.  I didn't think anything of it until the security man came across, told me he'd enjoyed my dancing and gave me a special Butlins pin badge.  I was completely made up with it.  Once we'd rounded Ned up and drove out through thee gate he stopped the car and said he'd managed to aquire one of the necklace things to put it on too, how cool!
All that and we were home in time for Top Gear too! 

Monday
Back to school then, we were fairly keen though, with our tales of our week off to share with or friends.
Pretty standard day really, dancing after school.  We had to make up our own dance routines in small groups.  We had to name ourselves, come up with a place we were from and why we thought we were going to win in a Britain's Got Talent style.
We named ourselves the Rocky Rock Star Girls from Slime-Land, and I declared that we were goig to win because I had a 'Flicky Hairstyle'  I got a really good laugh from all the mums and dads watching and our dance teacher Becky remarked that 'Only Ellis could come up with that'
I did cross country, Dad bundled me home as quick as he could afterwards as i'd packed my ancient jogging bottoms which were half way up my knee.....

Tuesday

We continued our drumming workshop at school, I loved it, legalised noise making!  It was also badge week at gymnastics....level 4 in the bag, easy peasy.  I can't wait to go for 3, 2 and 1.  I'm still practicing away at my splits and getting ever closer.

Wednesday

I got a letter to ask for Mum and Dad's permission for me to play in the school netball team at an upcoming tournament.  I'm so pleased i've been picked for yet another thing.

We had a check up at the dentist after school.  It went brilliantly for me and Dad.  I've got 4 confirmed wobbly teeth and he said I keep them lovely and clean.

I didn't do quite so well, I have to be more thorough with my brushing.  I was gutted about this.

Thursday

We spent the afternoon planting daffodil bulbs at school, how lovely.

It was still sunny after school had finished, so we hung around the adventure playground for a bit.

While I was hard at work in dance club.  Ben and I choreographed our entire routine from scratch, it was really good fun and apparently drew plenty of comments from the watching parents.
Once Mum was picked up from work and tea had been seen off it was full on cuddle club on the sofa with some telly.
Yes indeed it was.  Although I sloped off to bed without much quibble to watch Two and  Half Men on one of the wafty channels on the sly.

Friday

Last day of term was finally upon us, how exciting!

We'd filled our marble jar over the term so were due a reward.  We'd decided on a bike/skateboard/scooter afternoon.  Rather predictably the rain put paid to that which was a shame as we were going to get the ramps out and everything.  We did Lego instead though so it wasn't all bad really.  I also got to ride my bike to and from school which I thought was really exciting.
The trip to swimming lessons after school was more interesting than usual, the road to Northcroft was completely under water.
Yeah, it looked pretty deep too!
We told Dad to zoom through it but he was having none of it the spoil sport.  
We had to pick our way to the leisure centre pretty carefully as large sections of the car park were alo under water.
I didn't, I still love splashing in puddles, I never tire of it, even in inappropriate footwear.......

Saturday

Up reasonably early and off to the bowling alley.
Yeah, we'd been wanting to go bowling for ages and ages so we were well up for it.
Mum won as usual, but I really worked on my technique and got pretty good by the end of the game.
I played in my usual style, as if it was a huge inconvenience and to jettison the ball as soon as possible.
We had a quiet afternoon in readiness for Ali's party, at the Gymnastics club.  It was totally awesome, we flipped and bounced and everything else, all accompanied by a pumping soundtrack.
Meanwhile Andy came round for tea so I got to peform a full gymnastics routine for him in the front room.
We watched the Spalsh final when I got home, we were pleased that Perri won.

Sunday

Swimming day, we hadn't been for ages so I was well up for it.
Swindon this time and being a Sunday it has to be said it was pretty busy.
But we still had an awesome time.

Monday

First day of the holidays proper and we had a day with Auntie Christine and Darcey.
We loved it of course, did loads of colouring and watched a film, pizza binge for lunch....perfect!
In the evening I had Tillie's birthday party, a disco at the bowling alley.  Mum took Ali and I, although we had to make a detour to avoid Lower Way being closed due to flooding.  We got there in the end okay though.  It was brilliant, the music was great and I dance pretty much all night, only stopping to have a drink or re-fuel on the 'sweets buffet'
I was a rather red sweaty mess when Ali's Dad dropped us off at home later on.

Tuesday
School trip day, Bristol, to the Planetarium.  I wasn't that chuffed about this one in the build up as I wanted to go to the London one instead (that option got out-voted though).  Still, on the day I was raring to go.  We even got to go in a bendy bus coach!
It did seem a pretty long trip, but we loved it.  The planetarium show was pretty awesome and afterwards we got to wander round the wider science museum at our own pace to investigate the exhibits, a lot of which were hands on interactive type stuff.
We did our water filtration experiments back in class, I loved it.  Eventhough everyone predicted i'd try and drink the filtered dirty water I certainly didn't.  I loved seeing what affect the sand, gravel and cotton wool had on the murky water.
My wellingtons also developed a terminal problem when the seam split around the heel area.  Oh dear, all those lovely puddles to splash around in and I don't have any water-tight wellies......
Ned was pretty late back from Bristol so getting to gumnastics on time was a bit fraught....
But we made it!
Tea time was accompanied by about an hour of solid talking from Ned about his trip.......
I had to do my homework in a last night emergency dash style, accompanied by loads of whingeing and whineing.....but it turned out pretty good, well, according to Dad it was anyway.

Wednesday
I've been feeling really creative lately, and had a lovely time doing some blow painting after school.
While I sat on the sofa, watching telly, trying to forget it was PARENTS EVENING!
Cool, we get to play in the ICT suite for a while.
While Mum and Dad get told how i'm doing at school.....urrrgh.  It wasn't the best feedback i've ever had it must be said.  But then again, it wasn't too bad either really, just need to pay a bit more attention and try a bit harder a little more often really.

Thursday
After school dancing was brilliant this week, especially making the human pyrmaid arrangement for out finale.
We tried looking for new wellies and found nothing suitable...oh dear, what a nightmare time of year for such a fate to befall a committed splasher like myself.

Friday
Well, my parents eveing has certainly had an affect on me, I came home from school with this little certificate thingy:

And once Dad had verified I hadn't written it myself he was really pleased (as was Mum).
It was swimming night, the car park was almost underwater with the flooding!  I'm on a real charge with it now.  I think i've really finally cracked my front crawl/breathing technique.  I've certainly got messing about with Eva down.  This week Dad even remembered to bring my shampoo, conditioner and hairbrush for the shower afterwards!
I did my maths homework in about two minutes and then hit the Minecraft hard on the IPad.
There was a game of Logo Billionaire played after tea.
There was, and guess what....I WON!!!!!
Then we watched some of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony from Sochi in Russia.
There was some brilliant dancing, rollerblading and fireworks, I loved it!

Saturday
A lazy start to the day, watching the Olympics on telly.  Mens snowboard slopetsyle was the highlight, even if our Team GB chaps didn't get a medal in the final.
But that couldn't last, we went into town to buy me some more clothes.  
Oh deep joy.  Actually, I got to go in the Entertainer for ages until Dad rang me to order I try some stuff on too.
I loved it and got a few nice items for summer, should it ever arrive of course.
We headed home for lunch before setting off to visit Anne in her new house.
Yeah, we did, we approved of it whole heartedly too, very nice!
And after that it was yet more shopping!!
I could not believe it.
No, well, my need for new wellies is of the upmost importance.  Asda to the rescue:

Then it was back home for our usual Saturday night routine of Pizza and Splash!

Sunday
More early morning Olympics!  This time, Ladies Slopestyle snowboarding, and a bronze medal for our Jenny Jones.  It was dead exciting watching it, in bed, with Mum and Dad too.
I wasn't bothered, and took advantage of having the downstairs telly all to myself.
I was already looking forward to going out for a Chinese Sunday buffet lunch, seaweed!  Prawn Sesame toasts!  I spent ages doing my make up, i'm trying to town down my appliction technique a bit.  I think it's going pretty well.  I also got to wear a new dress which I was really excited about:

I wasn't quite so keen, from a food point of view anyway.  I'm not sure I like it all that much, but hey-ho, we were going with Alan and Hayley and I was looking forward to that.
Turns out I quite enjoyed my food in the end, I let Dad plate me some stuff up and I ate the lot, I particularly liked the curry spring rolls.
I decided I didn'ty like Seaweed any more.....
But we all agreed the help yourself jelly was brilliant.
We also had a lot of fun with Alan and Hayley.
And I hassled him to invite us offer to his house for some of his homemade jam tart cake things.  Hopefully he will.....
I asked Alan if he could come round to our house after the meal, but he said he had to go food shopping...yes!  Result!!!!  I wanted to go out and see Hugo or Alastair and Mum said I wouldn't be allowed if we had afternoon company.
I spent the afternoon cuddling up with Dad and doing Ironing with Mum, I love ironing!  I did very well not to burn myself, Mum or any of the clothes I think.  I particulalrly liked the steam spray function!
Hugo was out so I went to Alastairs, we played Minecraft all afternoon, awesome.
After tea we had a game of Labyrinth, we hadn't played for ages.....and weirdly Dad won.
We also watched some more Olympics, Biathlon!  The worlds coolest sport, cross sountry skiing and rifle shooting!!!!!  I really want a go at that.
Once that was finished it was bedtime, so a nice story for me, on Mum and Dads bed.
And Top Gear for me, the Alfa Romeo 4C and the Mclaren P1!

Tuesday

A perfect start to the day with my favourite breakfast, a large portion of dry Baugette and a heavy durt minecraft session on the Ipad.

It's good for me too, because while he's got his face stuck in the Ipad I get to choose what's on telly (once Mum has seen the news anyway).  I'm stilll favouring Channel 5's Milkshake for the record.

There's been plenty of sport at school lately, despite the weather.  It has led to some very muddy football sessions though.  Netball after school was a much cleaner affair.

And gymnastics is even better still! Being indoors and all that.

After tea I requested a game of Cluedo but this time I wanted to play on my own, with no help from anyone.

Very bold of you Ellis.

Yeah, I thought so, even if Mum wasn't completely convinced I knew I was doing.

Well, you did better than Dad, but then, thats no surprise.

Wednesday

I had a Good day at school, earning a marble for being polite.  I did loads and loads of writing during class.  I've also been getting on really well with my reading, which has been reflected in the level of books i've been bringing home, proper big ones with loads and loads of words in them.

There was no rugby again this week, so thats that bitten the dust.  I was pretty gutted about that.

I consoled myself by watching loads of videos of the various Apollo missions on YouTube.  I'm really captivated by our Space theme at school at the moment.

Thursday

We were all up early.

Yeah, it always feels really nice when we're all up early enough to see Dad before he goes to work.

It doesn't seem to make it any easier for Mum to get us ready on time though.....

Friday

Ahhhh Friday again.

Yes indeed, I was very nearly late for swimming due to us being a bit tardy getting in the car and heavy traffic.

It was Film night at school, great fun, almost as good as disco night!  We watched The Croods instead of the preciously advertised Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 but it was okay.

I sat at home with Dad watching funny animal videos on YouTube, it was lovely.

Saturday

A daytrip!

Yes, it's been a while since we've had one of these.

Indeed it has.  On today's agenda a trip to the science museum in London.

The day got off to a great start when my friend Evie from school just so happened to be going to London too on the same train.  We had great fun, hiding in the luggage racks.

When we left Paddington, Dad decided we'd walk through Kensington Park rather than take the underground to the museum.

We took some convincing to be honest, but he and Mum were hell bent on it.

As it turned out it was a great idea, it was a lovely sunny day.

The fountains were lovely, the pigeons having a bath in them certainly seemed to agree too.

The squirrels were brilliant too, really cute and brave enough to come right up to you.  We had a delve in the bag and found a bit of carrot and a bit of cucumber for one of them.

He loved the carrot, but left the cucumber.

There were also loads of dogs of all shapes and sizes out having a walk.  

We soon arrived at the museum and found our way to t he picnic area for lunch.....well, it was getting late for us.

Once lunch was done we started in earnest.  We found ourselves in a large interactive area, there was all sorts of things to and fiddle with.

Next up we went to the rocket show, it was brilliant.   Despite my best efforts and attempts at being the most prominent person in the auditorium I didn't get chosen to assist at any point during the session.  I must be losing my touch.

The highlight has to be the exploding of the balloon full of hydrogen (rocket fuel, I can certainly see why).

There was loads to see there, my highlight had to be the Apollo 10 command module.  I couldn't believe that it had actually been into space and back.

There was a bubble show later on in the afternoon.

Didn't get picked for that either.....

It was good though, bubbles of all shapes and sizes...even a square one!

We decided to take the tube back to Paddington rather than walk.

We did, we got talking to an American lady who had come to England to escape the bitterly cold weather of upstate New York.

She didn't mind the endless rain.

We had a quick pit stop in the worlds smallest Mcdonalds before setting off for home on the train.

We saw Evie again when we got off at Newbury and compared stories of our days out, how cool was that?

We were back home and on the sofa in time for Splash (albeit on ITV+1)

Sunday

Well, Mum went to work. which was a bit non standard.
As the sun was out for an amazing second day running, we decided to make the most of it and hit the BMX track.
We did indeed, we weere well up for it as we hadn't been to one for ages.
We went to the Knightwood one in Eastleigh and despite the prolonged recent rain it was riding really well, there was barely a puddle on it!
I still had to have a little help to get over some of the bigger jumps to begin with so that kept Dad on his toes.  
And with a little encouragement from me she made it all the way from the top of the start ramp too.
I was really pleased with myself.
We rode and rode and rode.
And then had a car-boot-picnic:

I declared it the 'Best day ever'  but had to concede that maybe it wasn't during cross examination from Ned and Dad.  That accolade goes to the Waterpark in Fuerteventura, at least for now it does......
We had a few more laps and then headed home.
I felt pretty iffy by the time we got home so spent the afternoon cuddling up with Dad on the sofa.
I headed out with the boys to play rugby in the park.  There was loads of us out, it was great.  I also got to take my new (Dad's old) mobile phone out with me.  Everytime we went somewhere different I rang Dad to tell him where we were going.  I'm not sure he needed to know my every movement but I enjoyed keeping him informed all the same.

Monday
Back to school, but only just as I was up on and off in the night feeling ropey.  By morning though I was feeling much better and went in as normal.
We commenced our 'Astronaut Training' at school.....we didn't get put in one of those spinny things, don spacesuits and work underwater or anything like that, nope, we did cross country!!!  First rule of Astronaut school, you have to be physically fit.  I loved it, especially as we had cross country club after school and I got to do even more running.
We did a cricus themed performance, I formed par of the acrobats group, my signature move being the headstand into the bridge.....