Tuesday
We got to do trampoliming at gymnastics, it's a pretty rare occurence but we love it!

Wednesday
Dad on morning duty as Mum had gone off to Lndon for the day with work.  We gave a good account of ourselves and were ready in plenty of time.  We even had time to do some lego before we left.

I went to Eloise's house for tea after school.  Firstly she has a lovely dog, secondly she has a rabbit....that we took for a walk...on a lead!  How cool is that?  I was in my element and loved it.  e even had my favourite tea, chciken nuggets and mash!  We went straight to Team Kennet together afterwards and are talking each other into doing some of the summer events I think.

Thursday
I'm still loving my climbing sessions.Tonights   highlight was free climbing, yeah, no ropes!  Certainly added an extra element to it all.  We did have a large crash mat under us though so it wasn't totally reckless.  We were allowed right up to the overhang on wall 5 which was quite high enough. 

In amongst all this, there was also the small matter of my parents evening.  Its all gone a bit weird with this sort of thing recently as the grading system has been abolished.  So it seems im doing okay on the whole, although i'm still occasionally hard work to get motivated.

Friday

Mum saw one of my teaching assistants today, she gave her a glowing report of my progress lately at school.  Apparently i'm writing more, reading more and generally going for it more.  She was very pleased to hear that I think.

Saturday
Ned's football, as if it wasn't shocking enough that he's got himself involved he keeps getting picked to play for the school team.  Which is great and all that, but Saturday morning's?  He goes on the coach, in his uniform with all the rest of the team, normally to a posh school.  We followed along a bit later today to see how he got on.  I took my camp chair, a pad and a pencil and sat it out for the first half but then made my way back to the car alone and missed the second half which is when he apparently played his best. Oh well, never mind.
We had noticed a nice parade of shops o the way in and as soon as the match had finished we left him to indulge in the catering laid on for the match and did some shopping.  Dad told me in no uncertain terms that I wasn't allowed anything today.  Which was fine, as neither was he!  Even though he found some bargain trainers that he really loved....lol
Ned than called and said they were half an hour from home....we were still at least 45 minutes from home and trawling round a bike shop...oops.  We decided we ought to leave pretty promptly.
Turns out he'd been a bit forward with his timings and we over took the coach miles before Cieveley.

Nate came round in the evening, how brilliant.  He was on great form and I loved cuddling him.  He had taken a dislike ot poor old Ned though for some reason and everytime he tried to have him he burst into tears. 

Sunday
We got up late and had a lovely brunch (hash browns are my latest favourite).  Then we packed up the stuff and headed to the pool in Guidford....diving boards!
We arrived at pretty much lunchtime so the pool was pretty quiet and the boards were open without any real queu at all.  We couldn't wait to show off to Mum who missed out last time we came here.  I took a while before I jumped from the 3 metre springboard but got there in the end and then had loads of goes.
Ned on the other hand dived from the 3 metre board and bombed from the 5 metre board (which didn't look that good an idea judging by his red leg) It certainly impressed the other young lads that were also enjoying the facilities.
Inspired by his diving I worked on mine, weirdly I was a fluent diver three years ago but had somehow lost the knack?  I got it back pretty much now though.
We got a McDonalds for tea on the way home so managed to dodge the roast.  

Monday
I finally passed my six times tables at school, it's been a long time coming thats for sure (although not as long as the eights took)

And today was my Last after school dance session.  I've decided to have a term or two off as what with gymnastics, climbing and Team Kennet i'm pretty tired.  There's also athletics club at school on the horizon and I keep flirting with the idea of some football too.

Most of my friends have seemngly given it up as well so the time seems right, even though i've been doing since way back in the infants.

Tuesday

Back to gymnastics, no Sasha this week as she has a sore wrist from her supermanesque leap the other week.  

Wednesday

Eloise and I took a new girl at Team Kennet under our wing this week and showed her the ropes.

Friday

Spring seemd to have sprung this week, although it was a bit on the cold side you could feel the warmth in the sunshine.  Everybody seemed to be of the same opinion and the park was rammed after school.  A load of my friends were down there which was lovely.  The highligt of the afternoon was the discovery of this Homebase trolley:

It provided plenty of fun, pushing people round in it, filling it with twigs, the list of uses for a trolley down the park is truly endless....

Ned had Kieran round for tea when I got home, they convinced me to get involved in a full scale Nerf war....

Saturday

It was Ptolomey's football party, I had been really looking forward to it.  Even though there was only two girls going, myself and Eloise.  We had a great time and for the times when the football all got a bit boring there was also a bouncy castle!

As if that wasn't enough excitement for one day we had another, very special party to go to....Nate's first birthday.  We can't believe he's been here for a whole year.  Watching him grow and develop has been so lovely. He's such a character.

Hayley's family were all there too, there were plenty of cakes that Hayley had mad  and loads of presents for the little man:

We got him a cool little ride on walker thingy:

He seemed to like it until he fell off it.

My brilliant day was finished off nicely by a trip to roller skating.  We met up with Abi and Faye and later on Kimi arrived too.  Abi did amazingly for her first time and even claimed second place in her race.  In addition to that Lola, Chelsea and Sasha from school were there...amazing.

Sunday

When Mum got up she may have caught me being a Cat, all wrapped up in my luxury blanket, meowing away to myself......

It was a nice day so we packed up a picnic, loaded the bikes and headed to Lydiard Park in Swindon.  We parked up and decided we might as well eat the picnic straight away, well, it was nearly lunchtime anyway.
We headed off on the bikes for an explore, it was nice to ride in the sunshine and away from any traffic.  We also found a cool area with jumps and dips:

Ned and Dad loved it, mum wasn't so keen.

We rode on, all around the lake and stopped for a Haribo pit-stop:

And then rode back to the car park,Ned and I took some of the more interesting 'off piste' routes back and we loved it.
Then we rounded things off with a play on the park:

Ned had another progress report from school and it looks like he's doing really well, in light of this we had a celebratory trip to Pizza Hut!  Lovely way to round off the weekend after working up an appetite in the fresh air all afternoon:

Monday

Not much to report except catching up with tosme weekend TV, Back in the Room was back on, I love that show so much.

Tuesday

I gave gymnastics a miss this week as I got to go to Sashas straight after school for tea.  I was basically being palmed off so Mum and Dad could go and watch Ned play in a Rugby 7's tournament at Pangbourne college.  A good result for both of us then, although he came home a lot muddier and more beaten about than I did

Wednesday

My bout of inactivity continued with us missing Team Kennet today.  Ned was still under the weather and didn't much fancy it and I agreed very willingly.

Thursday

It was world book day:

Here's my shop bought Baloo number which I loved.   I don't care that Ned always had elaborate, had crafted time consuming costumes..... 

I snapped out of my inacticivity today for climbing.  No problem on that front thats for sure.  I lovd it again and seem to be getting on okay.  Mum, Dad and Ned arrived a bit early to pick me up and got to watch for a bit.  They were impressed with my improvement in technique from last week.  My hands and forearms hurt a lot less than last week too, no doubt due to my improved technique. 

Mum as off to the quiz so tonight was our oppurtunty to get busy with the mothers day stuff. We dipped in to Sainsbury's to buy wrapping paper and then head home to make cards and wrap presents:

Very industrious.  Ned was playing some tunes from his phone so we had a bit of a disco as well, he soon got tired of Dad and I busting a few moves though...

Friday

School disco night!  There was an optional dancy dress theme for tonights event, you could go dressed as an explorer......no thanks, I had my cool leather jacket and sequinned top to wear:

We had a good night, Ned's mate Ali was djing.  He did a good job on the while even though the song from Frozen and an Adele number didn't meet with much approval.....never mind.  There were plenty of glow sticks on offer....

Saturday

We all had a bit of a lay in, then a trip to Waitrose for tea, i'd put in my order for a rack of ribs and corn on the cob.  We didn't have to worry about Ned as he was off to a party.

In the afternoon Dad and I made some Mary Berry recipe cheese straws that we saw on telly (wirh parma ham, dijon musrtard and gruyere cheese).  I loved rolling out the pastry, painting on the mustard, sprinkling the grated cheese, folding the whole thing in half and re-rolling before arranging the ham and slicing them into strips.  I twisted them very exeprtly after wayching Mary do it on telly and then they went in the oven......they smelt amazing.
And when they came out of the oven they looked amazing...I couldn't wait to try one but they were red hot.  Once they had cool down enough Dad and I sampled them.....they were amazing!
As were the ribs at tea time, much to Dads disappointment I polished off a whole rack!

Sunday
Early start for mothers day, I know she's supposed to get a lay in but I was so excited about it all I couldn't help myself.  We presented her with her cards and gifts and Ned and I made sure we stared arguing the toss to ensure Mum's dat was extra special.

We headed off to a sculture garden in Farnham.  It was actually really cool, there was about 800 sculptures dotted around a woodland walk and around the lake.  All of them were for sale too, we had a list of the title of each piece and it's purchase price.  Ned loved that, some of them were seriously expensive!

The windchime made a great noise:

Dad liked the mirror pillars dotted around in the trees:

This massive dragon was the real highlight though:

These fellas seemed to like a dance:

One of the exhibits was 

Mum certainly enjoyed herself.  Mission accomplished.

Monday

We had a school trip today to Chedworth Roman villa.  mum came along too as a helper which was nice even though I didn't get to be in her group of course.  It was a really good day, we got to dress up in Roman costumes, learnt a bit, explored the remains of the villa outside (was a lovely sunny day as well, bonus) and made smelly little pomander things just like the Romas did to cure themselves of colds and other ailments.  We put all sorts of herbs and spices in it, it smelt a bit like dinner!
Even Mum loved it, which was good after the last trip she came on didn't quite live up to epsoectations for her.....

Wednesday

I left a little message for mm in the frosty car window on the way to school this morning:

Eloise my friend from school has started going to Team Kennet so thats cool, another little member for my group of friends there!

Thursday

Well after Ned had started his climbing course on Monday I was desperate to get a piece of the action.  It turns out after a bit of research that there was a course for us younger ones on a Thursday evening.  So here I was, ready for action.  I couldn't wait to get started, we learned how to harness ourselves up and tie our ropes:

There was only three of us so we got loads of climbing done.  I really loved it and cannot wait to go again.  We even got a piece of climbing rope to take home and do our homework knot tying practice.

Friday

Mum went out for tea, so we dropped her off and then went round to Owen's new house, I made quite an entrance in my cool leather jacket.  Darcey was already there and very pleased to see me:

It's a really cool place, we reckon Owen and Kirsty have done very well for themselves.

Saturday

It was a bit of a late night so there was some lie in action on Saturday morning.

Ned went off to town with his friends so we were free to do ad we pleased.

First up Sainsbury's car wash:

I still love the car wash, this time It was soundtracked by me mixing and scratching some tunes on Dads phone DJ app which drove Mum mad.

We carried on into Sansbury's, I used some of my own money to buy myself a lovely snuggly blanket that Mum and I tested as soon as we got home:

It was perfect for a saturday night tv snuggle up.

Sunday

We had Uncle Trevor round for lunch, I was so excited about him coming.  He seemed to really enjoy himself so that was good.  

We went for an afternoon bike ride, we headed west on the canal towpath:

We rode a pretty long way before we headed back.

Monday

Sasha, Molly and I worked out a dance routine today, I wrote it down in note form for future reference.

After school I went off to the shops to buy so e Toxic Waste. Super sour sweets, this weeks in thing.  Ned dared me to eat three at once....which I did, albeit with a bit of a wince.