We had a game of Dixit before gymnastics, Ned free zone too, I loved it.
He was epic, and just like the real Weables he didn't fall down!
He looked really comfortable and very relaxed too he even gave us a wave as he went past:
There was one really long straight and he went along it seriously fast. It was actually quite shocking to think Ned was driving a real car at that sort of speed. At the end of the session he even reverse parked, impressive stuff. The instructor, Mark said he'd done very well and certainky wasn't afraid of using the throttle. He reckoned they got up to nearly 50mph (in second gear) and the main thing Ned should concentrate onwas his road positioning, he was a bit too keen to drive on the right. We put this down to our recent trip to Tenerife.
Then we managed to get them to come round to ours afterwards for a bit of a play....excellent.
It was our final practice session for the gymnastics competition this week, so we're as ready as we're going to be.
I did a lot of practice of the sample script we had for the christmas play in preparation for auditions. I got it down really well too.
Once I was home from gymnastics and we'd had tea we played the board Game Ticket To Ride. I've never really been one for board games but I loved this one this time. Other than Dixit it's the only game i've ever really played through to the end. This telly and Ipad game is actually turning out to be pretty good........
Wednesday
Took my super cute white fluffy (battery operated) dog on mine and Mums walk to the little shop tonight. It seemed a great idea in principle, but the dog does move rather slowly and is prone to walking round and round in circles. Progress was slow.
Next up Parents evening, wasn't worried about it this year. I don't think they got a great deal of feedback anyway......
Then it was a rush job for Team Kennet, no Ned this week, he was playing rugby again.
I had a great time in the competition group again.
Thursday
I went up a reading level at school, yay. I'm so pleased, the choice of lime labelled books was very limited indeed. I now how the choice of the red and black label ones instead.
It wasn't all good news though, we had the christmas play auditions and it didn't go as i had planned. I wasn't allowed to read the part i'd been practicing at home for so long which wasn't ideal. I didn't know the other role they wanted me to do nearly so well. I got given a crappy part with only one line to say.....not happy about that at all.
It didn't get much better at home,we had a cake making session for the following days Children In Need cake sale....plenty of arguments with Znec getting involved.....he didn't even have a bake sale at his school!
Friday
Children in need day...that means I get to wear my onesie for school! Mr Percy even wore his pyjamas all day too.
Mum got to go to her first ever bake sale after school. She was utterly shocked at the amount of noise and commotion. Quite honestly neither Mum nor I had to appetite to get involved in the scrum for cakes so just got a couple of bits from the far less busy sweetie stall. Ned used to be in his element at these sorts of things......
When I got home I dug the Weables out and had a play with them, I was fascinated at them not falling over and was interested in how they worked. After a quick chat with dad about it. We made our own using a Kinder egg, a blob of blue tack and a couple of pound coins:
I then helped cleaning and tidying with mum. I really got into it too, I cleaned the toilet and arranged the coasters extremely accuratley using a ruler. Apparently I did such a good job that Mum evn paid me...not that I was expecting any money.
Nate came round to see us, he's even more with it now, apparently he's started waving too. The first person he waved at was Simon Cowell on the telly. I even got to help feed him his jar of food. He bought Alan and Hayley along too, and Andy turned up so we played the werewolf game! I looooove the Werewolf game.
Saturday
Mum had her shareholder meeting to go to for her old work. Faced with the awful weather and the prospect of dealing with us alone the telly and Ipad ban was lifted a day early. Thank goodness for that, we spent the morning getting seriously square eyes!
Once mum was home we played another game of Ticket To Ride which I was very pleased about as i'd been desperate to have another go.
Then in the evening we went bowling with Auntie Christine, Laura, Auntie Trish, Uncle Slim and Auntie Tracey. It was great fun and I did really well and even got a strike! Add to that Auntie Trish's sweetie stash and we were having a great time.
We went back to Auntie Christines afterwards for a chinese takeaway and some games....lovely.
Sunday
We took Ned for his first driving lesson in the morning, up at the Newbury Showground. He had it for his birthday so it had taken a while to get it organised. I was seriously jealous of him and can't wait until i'm 11 and I can have a go too.
He got sat in the car and after a few adjstemts and a few words from the instructor he was off:
We met up with Kimi and Marny for lunch in the pub afterwards. We hadn't seen them for ages and ages. It was good to catch up, we had a lovely feed:
We had a bit of a quiet time once they left, watched some telly and then revved up for the gymnastics competition. I signed in and met up with Sasha, Lola and Eloise and made our way in to the gym. There was a lot of people watching and I could have got quite nervous if i'd thought about it...but im getting quite good at putting this sort of thing out of mind these days. I was in a group with Lola so that was good, we have a great time when we're together. We competed on the floor, the bars, the vault and the beam. The good news was that I didn't fall off anything or land on my bottom at any point suring proceedings so i'll take that as a good result. I didn't get a top three in any of the individual events but we all got a medal for effort:
Monday
Rehearsals for the play have started in earnest and we've been getting stuck into the songs, which i'm really enjoying.
After school dancing was another one in the dark, this time a disco themed number complete with disco lights and everything.
We got home to find the house overrun with Ned and his mates having a Nerf gun war....obviously I had to get stuck in too!
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