Tuesday
School Panto day, we had to ealk doen to the town of course.
I looked magnificent in my christmas pudding hat, thanks Auntie Trish.
The show was good fun, it wad Aladdin this year.
As usual, Billy bumpkin was hilarious.
And this years top songs were Pharell's Happy and All about the bass.
Dad picked us up from outside the Corn Exchange when it had finished and we had a mooch about in the Entertainer until Mum finished work.
When we got home we had a discussion about what I should offer up for our class stall at the upcoming christmas bazaar to raise the most money for charity. After a bit of searching on the internet, mum and I arrived at the idea of making fudge, Chocolate fudge. We had a quick blast round Tesco for ingredients and then set about getting it made.
I decided to write all my christmas cards......
The fudge making was dead easy.......and most importantly, dead delicious!
It was indeed truly epic, we loved it.
We poured it into a tray to set overnight so I could take it to school for taste testing.
I only managed to write 3 cards, and didn't even put them in envelopes.
Wednesday
I had a special assembly where we got to play our viola's in front of the school and a sprinkling of mums and dads.
I loved it, Mum also said us viola players sounded much better than the screechy violins!
I took my fudge to school, all chopped up into neat, equal sized pieces (thanks for the help mum). This was the real masterstroke, I had enough pieces for everyone in the class to have a bit. I handed it out to one half of the class, Miss Buxey did the other. Everyone loved it, in fact they raved about it. Miss Buxey liked the fact that i'd considered ease of manufacture for us at school too. Job done, fudge was on the menu!
It was the first night of our christmas play, mum and dad came along.
And I went to Team Kennet, I went home withAbi afterwards, looking forward to playing some Minion Rush on the Ipad.
I was a bit nervous before the show it has to be said. Once we got going though I loved it really enjoyed the singing and dancing, all dressed as a toy cat:
It was all quite exciting to do it in the evening rather than during the day like at the infants, even if we did have to play second fiddle to the year 4's this year.
Thursday
We'd had to take in as many old toilet roll tubes and general junk modelling stuff as we could find to make marble runs. It was brilliant, although our group had some rather grand ideas of what we wanted to make, so we ran short on time to realise our vision.
After school rugby was brilliant this week, I scored loads of tries, so many that I actually lost count!
I had the second and final night of the school play. I wasn't quitre so nervous this time round. Andy and Ned came to pick me up as Mum and Dad had gone out.
Yeah, we had a cool evening, just chatting and getting extended bedtime stories!
Friday
More christmas festivities at school, it was christmas lunch day.
To which we were invited to wear our christmas jumpers.
And hats! I loved lunch, especially sitting next to Dylan who wanted to eat all my veg for me, result!
We had crackers and everything.
In the afternoon we could choose what we wanted to do, there was a film in one classroom, and an art room set up. But the choice was pretty easy for me, disco classroom. Mrs Watkins had bought her Now 89 in and it was all going very well until the rude version of All abut that bass came on......
I did colouring in the art room, I love colouring.
Mum went out in the evening so we were home with Dad.
We fired up the Wii for a game of Wii Party.
But sadly the Wii died afer about 10 minutes. We started again, but it died again after a similar sort of time, we didn't finish our game.
But I did accidentally manage to smack dad in the head with the remote during an over enthusiastic lunge. I think it hurt him actually, it's actually the only time in my life I think i've ever offered a genuine, unprompted apology.
Saturday
An exciting day in prospect, it was finally Christmas Tree day.
Yeah, after weeks and weeks and weeks of waiting we made our way over to Yattendon.
The little dancing Father Christmas by the door seems to get smaller every year.....
We saw a rather fetcing owl, that apparently Uncle Alan has?
We had to go through the ususal charade of course, pick a perfectly decent tree then sift through several thousand others, discussing their relative merits.
We did all agree in the end though and went to get it bagged and the bottom lopped off.
By a pretty awesome looking chainsaw...vroom vroom!
We jammed it in the back of the car, up through the middle seat and headed to Waitrose for lunch items.
And to have some tasters of various prodcuts they had going on the baker counter.
Christmas cup cakes and some lovely chocolate doughnuts.
Neither of which were nice enough to tempt me away from my usual cheesecake.
We had a post lunch slump and minecraft session. Ellis is playing it with me on the Xbox now, which is really cool.
Except for the odd squabble and difference of opinion.
Then it was time to get the tree in.
We got it wedged in the bucket pretty easily and snipped off it's sock.
Then once Dad had finished being the worlds most tedious man with the lights it was time to throw the entire contets of the decorations box at it!
Strangley enough, it looked pretty good, even if we do say so ourselves.
All that was left to do was top it off with Mum's nudie Cherub
And then Mum made Dad and I pose for a 'nice' photo of decorating the tree:
We didn't get to sit around enjoying our handiwork for long though, Roller skating time was rapidly approaching.
We hadn't been for a while so we were keen to get going.
I enjoyed another race win!
I didn't.
I did enjoy a hockey knock about with Dad:
But I decided to get involved in the full game:
Then we decided it was time we learnt a few tricks. I decided i'd go for the squatted down one footed glide. After a few attempts that ended up on my bum, I nailed it:
I started doing jumps, and landed them safely.
When we got home, mum had just got our pizzas out of the oven and was slicing them up....perfect!
Sunday
Panto day, Mum's pre-christmas highlight.
A nice drive back down to Bristol (should have gone to that hotel again if you ask me).
We settled on a pub for lunch and found a really cool one inside an old former 'Gentlemens Club' whatever that was.
It had a really high cieling with a glass dome in the middle that let the sunshine in.
The menu was thankfully not so fancy and we'd timed it to perfection as they were still just about serving breakfast.
Pancakes and syrup for me (breakfast menu).
Sauasge bap (breakfast menu) and chips (lunch menu) for me. I was the only one who went for pudding as well, triple layer chocolate fudge cake and ice cream (dessert menu).
And then we set off to the theatre, the Hippodrome. It was a cool old place, we did envy the people in boxes high up at the sides.
The main thing was of course Pudsey the dog! He was seriously cute and looked very fluffy and cuddleable.
He didn't perform the whole show.
No, but Ashleigh was there as well as Mr Bloom as well as the standard village idiot type.
It was all good fun, the highlight had to be the sausage pie making........
And the 3D film section in the middle:
Mum was not impressed.
ooops.
Anyway, when we got home the christmas special of catchphrase was on.
It was hilarious, we were glad Warwick Davis won.
Monday
It was my last after school dance session today. Cross Country club is starting on a Monday after Christmas so I had to make a choice between the two.
We were allowed to work on our own routines and even play a few games.
Which I managed to win. My prize? Face decorations:
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