Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

Tuesday
The nice weather is continuing so it was Gymnastics with the big old doors open this week.  Means Mum and Dad can peer in and see what I'm up to in there though.

Wednesday
So Ned had a day at Palmer Park doing athletics, obviously I'm not usually interested in Ned, but he happened to mention that Marley from Millie Inbetween (it's on CBBC) was also competing.  He had a chat with him and everything, which even I have to admit is pretty cool.  He cam home red from the sun, well it could have been the sun or it might have just been his embarrassment at getting put in for the 1500 metres and struggling a bit....

Thursday
Lily came round for tea, and after we'd been to the park and you-tubed for a bit we gave the trampoline it's spring clean and got bouncing.  I had forgotten just how much I love the trampoline!

Friday
More trampolining today, working on getting my front flips nailed.

Sasha came for tea before we went to Friday club.

Saturday
Quadkids day today, we'd been looking forward to this one for a while and I was raring to go.  We found the team gazebo, and I tried to consume my entire days packed lunch in about 20 minutes while Mum got stuck in and 'helped' organise the team admin and delegated chair fetching duties. 

My first event was vortex, and for reasons best know to myself (I was scared of going over the line and getting a no throw) I decided to forgo my usual run up and just wang it from standing.  Which was okay, but didn't go anywhere near as far as my usual 'out of competition' throws.  Mum and Dad were seriously unimpressed.
Next up, the sprint, which I did good at, not sure what the times say but it felt fast to me.

We certainly enjoyed our day, just hanging out with each other, the occasional bit of sport thrown in here and there.
Standing long jump went pretty well out in the middle of the field away from the spectators prying eyes.
I put in a strong performance in the 600m, I'm not a distance runner at all, but kept towards the front of the main pack and had a strong sprint finish.
So that was it, all done for the day, all we had to do was wait for the results to be tallied up.
We gathered round to watch Falkland win everything again, but we had a most pleasant surprise when the year 5 & 6 John Rankin team were called out at third place in the overall!
This meant a proper presented medal and everything, I think it's fair to say we were overjoyed. 
We also got some feedback to say we were a lovely bunch of polite and nice kids from the helpers and officials.....
We've been coming to quad kids since Ned was in year 3 and one or both of us has been competing every year since, this was the last one.  What a great event to have been a part of.

Sunday
We had Nate and Joel and Andy around for lunch on Sunday.  We don't need an excuse really but seeing as we're all off on holiday together soon we had a few things to go through.
It was great fun on the trampoline with Alan and Nate, lunch was a n inconvenience really as we had a great day playing in the garden, making camps and draping blankets.
Ned and I even had a well mannered waterfight!
In the evening we had a quick burst of pre SATS revision before all agreeing that if it wasn't in my brain by now it was too late anyway so sacked it off in favour of the Crystal Maze.

Monday
So its SATS week, there's a breakfast club at school because of it.  It was brilliant, especially as i'm eating like a horse at the moment.  The test itself seemed to go okay (SPAG - spelling, punctuation and Grammer).
We got to parade our quadkids medals in assembly too which was brilliant.
Once I was home I got back on the trampoline and landed a number of good quality front flips one after the other.  This caused enough of a stir for Ned to descend from his bedroom for a go too......that's twice in two days we'd done something together without having a row.