Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Tuesday

Finally i've got my three three times table award, it's taken a while but i've finally done it.

In other school related news Mum came in as a reading buddy today, how exciting.  She was pretty good at it by all accounts even though i'm not sure how many kids she got through as she was too interested in hearing what happened at the end of the stories or asking extra questions about the characters.

We had a fun event scheduled, MathOlympics.  Dad thought it sounded great fun....not. Turns out he was right, it wasn't that enjoyable...unless you llike being barked at by a rather abrupt maths teacher from St Barts.

It was badge week at gymnastics, now i'm working my way up the awards they are getting a bit tougher.  This week I think we started 'Gold Apparatus' but we have to finish off the assessment next week..... 

Wednesday
After school football ended in disaster.  Turns out Mr Gilham gets as hacked off with sone of the players attitudes as I do, he ended the session with a lecture and told us that that was it....no more football club this term!  I was pretty disappointed but I can completely understand why he did it.

When I got home my Heely's had arrived, I was super excited.  I had scoured the internet for a pair and chanced across a some that were reduced to half price, I do love a bargain.  I couldn't wait to get them on and start rolling.  Turns out Ellis had made it look easier than it actually was.  Having said that i'd got the hang of them by the time tea was ready.....albeit with a little less skin on my knees than when I had started off.

I went out to join him and we both flew along the pavements near school looking pretty damn graceful.

We had to take them of for Team Kennet sadly.....

Thursday

Mum came to school to do reading again, this time with Mr Percy's class.  I wish she could read with me! She says I can do that at home whenever I want, but come on, it's obviously not the same is it?

I went school uniform shopping after school, for Park House stuff.  Thought we'd beat the rush and all that.  First thing to do was try on a blazer.

It made him look like an old man!

Then it was a jumper, rugby shirt, polo shirt, shorts and sports socks.  All the sports stuff could be printed with initials too, on the outside in big white letters not just inside on the name tag, how cool is that?

Almost as cool as rolling around the super smooth marble floor of the Kennet Centre on our Heely's.

Yeah, while we were waiting for the initials to be printed we crossed the road for some serious gliding.

Bit of a split after tea, with Dad and I heading to the woods with our bikes.

While Mum and I took a walk to Wash Common park:

The woods were okay, but I prefer Tidworth or anywhere with proper, marked up official tracks.

Friday

Practice for our play moved onto learning the songs today. It went pretty well I think.

We had a game of Donkey and the Carrot after tea, still one of my favourites.

I gave it a miss and had a total geek out on the computer.  I even managed to win a game of Age of Empires!

Saturday

Quad kids today, my last one and I was quite looking forward to it.

I wasn't really, another long day hanging about.  Having said that there were loads of peolpe there I knew to hang out with.  We also dropped in on Uncle Den for a flying visit as he lives opposite.

As usual with Quad Kids the weather wasn't as good as you might hope for in June.  So it was a bit wet which affected the sport.  There were plenty of participants slipping over in the sprint.  The Vortex throwing was conducted without a run up and the standing long jump had it's fair share of slipping and falling. In spite of all this I did okay, even managing to win my 75 metre sprint heat.  We managed a third place team finish for year 5 and 6, not bad....but not quite good enough to win a place at the regional finals:

In the evening we paid a visit to Max and Leo's.

Hartley was brilliant fun, always up for a game.

And their new pool was great fun too, if a bit cold.

I took one graceful leap over the side to immerse myself.

Whereas I went for the more gradual approach.

We had a great night with plenty of laughs...

And we stayed very late!

Sunday

So we weren't in any real hurry to get out of bed this morning.

We did have a deadline of sorts as Anne and Mike were coming round for lunch.

It was nice to see them.

And then we had a visit from Nate too.

He's still seriously cute.

It was only a flying visit though as we had my birthday party to go to.

We had Auntie Trish and Andy along to help which was brilliant.

It was at the gymnastics club again, so an hour of bouncing, rolling and springing, all resulting in us getting very pink faces:

As well as a session being pushed round in the doughnut of course:

I certainly enjoyed it.

And I did too on the whole, except for what must have been the loudest rendition of happy birthday the world had ever heard!

I certainly enjoyed going through my sack load of presents at home:

I've got some very generous friends who seem to know me very well.

So thanks to them and thanks to Andy and Trish for helping out, it was lovely of you both, especially as you had the most important job of fetching the massive McDonalds order!

Monday

So with quad kids done and dusted I had no after school club on a monday night for the first time I can ever remember. News did filter back regarding the Quad Kids event though....it turns out I had done a lot better than I thought.  Upon examination of the final results sheet, I came 13th overall, not bad for all the year 5 & 6 school kids in West Berkshire.  The highlight result was probably my third place in the standing long jump although I was well up there with the throwing and the sprinting too. We also found out that we had actually qualified for a place representing West Berkshire at the summer school games regional competition.  Another day off hopefully.

I had dance after school, we danced to Reet Petite wnd got to chose our own partners to work with. I paired up with Lola and we loved it!