Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Tuesday
Gymnastics badge week has seemingly been a long time coming round again? Woth the wait though as I have now gained the Silver Apparatus award.  I nearly lost it again as soon as we left the gym though as the wind my certificate clean out of my hands and blew it up the road.  I managed to bring it's escape bid to a halt by trapping it against a tree.....made it a bit dimply.

Wednesday
We did PE today, athletics stuff and then afterwards when back in class looked into the science behind our athletic actions.  Friction, wind resistance and all that sort of thing, I loved it.
While Ned was at Team Kennet I went for a bike ride around the Common, trying out the new cycle helmet I had for my birthday.

Thursday
We had a taster day visit to Park House school.  It was great fun, we did soem archery, made some tissue paper flowers and as it was a Japanese themed day we also did some yoga, meditation and learned to count to ten and beyond in Japanese using sign language too!

Friday
My trip down the park after school with my friends was cut short as we had to go and pick the car up from the garage so that was rubbish.  Ned is still doing his football club after tea, we discovered a whole load of that outdoor gym equipment stuff when we went to pick him up a bit early.  We had a right old laugh trying that out.

Saturday

The thing I very much wanted the most for my birthday was my ears pierced.....well, second most wanted thing, but i'm realistic enough to accept that there won't be a puppy anytime soon.  Mum rang the jewellers on Saturday morning and the lady said they had a slot available at 11 o'clock.  So we had to get our skates on and get down the town.  I was so excited to finally get it done.  I had to choose my first set of earrings form a reasonably small selection....so after a small amount of deliberation I obviously picked the largest, blingiest pair of studs on offer.

Then it was time to get in the chair and decide exactly where the holes were going to go.....this was decided by committee with me giving the final nod of approval from looking where the pen dots were positioned in a mirror....

So, we were all set, earrings chosen, position chosen......all that was left was the act itself.  The lady was very nice and asked if I wanted a countdown or whether she should just go for it....I told her I didn't want a countdown so she she just got on with it.

One then quickly the other and it was all done.  It did hurt, I won't lie, but it really wasn't that bad at all.  So that was it, all done a d a trip to the chemist to get some cleaning clobber and some micropore tape to cover them up for sport and I was all set,

Dad reckoned it would gurt like hell later......

We checked out an upgrade for Andy on the way home:

But apparently he's on the mend and out of his boot and off the crutches too!

We went out for a bike ride inthe afternoon, to explore a route for Mum to get to work along the canal.  We rode along the footpath taking in the sights, it was really quite lovely actually.. I loved exploring the locks and using them as bridges and scrabbling accross them.  We did find a route to Mum's work too in the end so it was a successful mission.  There was also a world war 2 pill box by the canal with a nice little gap over to a bridge that loved jumping across, Dad took some slo-mo video that i'm sure will surface here at some point in the future.

We started the ride home and things went a bit awry when I got my bike hooked up in a rut, fell off it and got the end of the handlebars shoved firmly into my lower stomach as I lurched forwrd and the front wheel rapidly swung to the side. Mit really, really hurt.....way more than the ear piercing! It was a bot of a slow and steady ride home afyer i'd picked myself up and dusted myself down

With all the usual Saturday night shows finished we ended up watching the film Iron Man, which at forst I wasn't overly keen on the idea of.  It was however brilliant and I loved it.

Sunday
We had a project to build a limbo dancing set, using two broom handles, a load of wooden dowels, a drill,a work bench and a hammer.  I decided to leave the bulk of the drilling to Dad while I made myself useful using the hammer to bang the dowels in.  Initial testing went very well and now we just need to work out how to make it stand up nicely.

We spent the whole morning outside just pottering about, it was lovely to be outside and use the picnic bench.

Nate and Joel came round in the afternoon, with my birthday present:

We had a lovely time with them of course, obviously the Nerf guns came out......

On e they had gone I got busy with the Hama beads!!!

Monday
Darcey came round after school for a bit, we played games and had a mini disco to road test some potential tunes for an upcoming event.

We haven't had an earrings picture yet have we?  

There, and despite Dad's continued concerns they still don't hurt!

I got stuck into the Hama beads again, my bedroom door is looking much better as a result!