Wednesday afternoon was bike time. Dad and I raced around the close for ages, of course I won all the races we had. I’m getting really good at going fast, using the brakes and even throwing in the occasional small wheelie.
Thursday afternoon we got all creative and Dad and I made a racing car:

It was pretty good I suppose, but I was quite disappointed when I couldn’t actually drive it around the house.
I thought it was okay, but the steering wheel was an unnecessary luxury and promptly pulled it off.
Friday Mum broke the washing machine, so I had to go shopping with her to get another one.
And in the afternoon Dad and I fitted it…..he loved my helpful advice, especially when he skinned his knuckles. It didn’t matter though because Auntie Christine came round for a flying visit as well.
So then it was Saturday and we went to the races. We met up with Andy who had John and Sarah with him. As soon as we got in John decided he wanted to go to the bar, I don’t know what they teach them down in the west country. When we got there, there was loads of us!


Mum and Dad had a few winners but none of my selections came in. Never mind, I was allowed an ice cream anyway.
An ice cream? I had a carton of milk warmed up under Dad’s armpit!
We had a brilliant game of jumping off the picnic bench with Max, Fen, Yanna, John and Sarah:

But uncle Al was a real star, running around and around and around with us.

Leo performed in a way to make his Dad proud, chatting up the girls with a drink in his hand:

Oh yes, if anyone could tell me what sort of animal Carrie-Anne’s blue fluffy boots were made of I’d love to see one!
In the evening Auntie Christine came round to look after us at long last! Laura and James also turned up and we had a lovely time while Mum and Dad went out to the pub.
I decided to cry as well, as a test for them. They passed with flying colours!
Sunday was Dad’s birthday. Mum hadn’t told me what we’d got him as she knew I’d blab it out so Sunday morning, early o’clock I was trying to force presents into his hands. I had also made him a lovely card all on my own. His presents were rubbish of course, no toys! We took him to McDonalds for breakfast and we had sausage mcmuffins…lovely.
Slim and Tracey came round, I had a lovely cuddle with Tracey….
…and I played Tennis on the Wii with Slim.
Then it was lunchtime and cake!!!

Which I actually didn’t really like. He should have a chocolate one.
In the afternoon we went round to Chris and Katies for Jase’s music quiz. They all seemed to like it but us kids thought it was rubbish. Abi, Kimi and I all decided to have a really good loud cry to cause as much disruption as possible.
I didn’t want to get involved with them, so decided to go to sleep instead.
For once, Dad wasn’t on the winning side, not sure he liked that too much…but I’m sure he’ll get over it.
On Monday I got my invite to Jude’s birthday party in December, how exciting is that, I love a good party.
Grandad and Anne came round on Monday afternoon so it was nice to see them, even if they did bring Dad another non-toy present. Grown up birthdays are rubbish.
Okay then in general news this week, I have been quite poorly with a stinking cold but I’ve tried to stay happy. I’ve started laughing properly now rather than just a gurgle, especially when mum gives me a good old tickle., and finally I’ve really started to eye up everyone’s real food when they’re eating. It looks lovely, so much more varied than milk, milk, milk and more milk.
I’ve have been pretty much sleeping most of the time….see you next week if I can stay awake long enough!

Went round to Nick’s last Wednesday afternoon, I was surprised to see how many of Mum and Dad’s friends are obviously part time slackers and would rather be watching football in the afternoon than going to work.
Even more exciting than the football though was our Legoland tickets arriving, I didn’t really know what Legoland actually was but I was certainly excited.
We went to the town, library and park with great Grandma on Thursday!

It was pretty good, she bought me a massive bag of pick and mix that lasted until the weekend.
Friday was the main event, Legoland:

It was completely brilliant, I couldn’t believe my eyes when we arrived. Mum and I rode on this strange up in the sky thing, but it was pretty tame and nowhere near exciting enough for me.

This was though (that’s us on the right). We came down really fast, waved at Mum as we went under the bridge and then whizzed around the corners to the bottom.
I then had a bit of a ‘moment’ when I ran after another small boy while we were playing in a castle, without Mum or Dad managing to spot where I had gone. One mobile phone call, a lot of confusion and several pints of tears later we were all back together again. It’s a good job Mum put the sticker on my jumper with Dad’s number on it. Still, I hadn’t gone far and I’m sure they would have found me (or heard me).
Then it was on to driving…my favourite. Here I am causing carnage into the first corner after taking the lead:

And here I am admiring the mess I had created:


I took Mum on a big scary roller-coaster, it was really fast and went through tunnels and everything, we even got to sit right at the front!
Dad asked if I wanted to go on the Pirate Log-Flume, of course I did, I love pirates. I was still keen even after we’d seen a few boats splash down after the big slope so off we went. I really enjoyed the first bit where you cruise along the water taking in the sights but it all got a bit fraught after the drop. The drop itself was fine, it was the soaking that I didn’t like!

Finally I got to go on something (to be fair, I had been asleep most of the day)

We went on a big Lego train. We saw loads of Lego animals and the like and we also got squirted with water, Mum did a good job of keeping it off me though.
There were jeeps that went on a dinosaur hunt:

Trains that I screamed to go faster:

It certainly did that!
I went to Belgium:

And in the end I was having so much fun I forget I needed the toilet and had to borrow Mum’s jumper:

I caused quite a stir with my striking new look!

I surveyed all the fun we’d had on the way out and was busy talking about our next visit……
I’ve had a few ideas about getting Nanny back lately. The first one was to blow really hard into the sky to blow her out of heaven…that didn’t work. The second came to me at the park on a bouncy see-saw where I thought I may be able to bounce her out of heaven and back to us. Sadly this didn’t come off either. Maybe inspiration will hit me again soon..
We had a quiet weekend which suited me fine. More sleeping and smiling!
We went to a park on Sunday:

I looked cool!
Mum took me to Scotland on a train:

She then taught me how to make a swing go on my own without anyone pushing:

Being autumn and all that we decided to collect leaves and make some collages. We spent all afternoon collecting nearly every leaf we could find before taking the sackload home for sticking:

Luckily no-one stuck themselves to the table.
That’s all for this week, see you later:

I went to the dentist with Dad for the first time officially last Wednesday. I didn’t fancy getting in the chair alone so I sat on dads lap. The dentist asked me to open wide and I certainly did, he was very impressed with just how wide I could go but I had been practicing for a few days. He said everything was very good! It was Dad’s turn next so I watched while they had a poke about in his mouth. Once we got out to the desk I was asked if I’d like a sticker for being a good boy, so I chose a nice big Nemo one:

It didn’t last long though as mum put my top into the washing machine that night with the sticker still on it!
I didn’t go because I haven’t got any teeth yet, Mum thinks I might have one on the way though so I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, here’s a picture anyway:

Laura came round later in the afternoon because she is a lady of leisure. What ever the reason it’s always good to see her.
Or maybe not, she had a better tan than me from her recent holiday!
Now I’d like to give everyone a little insight into an average afternoon at home:

We do some sleeping.

Mum watches Deal or no Deal while I arrange my cars into traffic jams.
My latest favourite tricks are continually rolling over onto my side or front and sticking out my tongue a lot. Not much I know, but I’m enjoying it!
Thursday we did some painting:

The weather was lovely so we did it outside which pleased mum as I didn’t get paint all over the house. She doesn’t really like me painting,,,,
When I got picked up from nursery on Friday she asked what I wanted to do, I told her I wanted to go to the pub! So we did, and we dragged Laura along too!

I fell off the swing and as I got up it hit me in the back of the head, I cried my eyes out, I don’t know why everyone else thought it was so funny!

It was pretty funny though…

I set up my mobile café in this tree house, as usual stock was pretty scarce.
They had a field with horses in it, Laura fed them polo’s they seemed to really like them:

Saturday was an early start for the seaside, apparently the surf was going off! I don’t know whether it was or not as the tide was out and it looked a very long way away. I stayed on the sand and made a running track with a water jump and everything.

It looks a bit miserable on this photo but it was lovely and warm really…for October!
I had a great time making Dad, Andy and Owen walk up into the dunes with me and went for a real good explore with Mum.

I set up base camp and looked after the stuff! The sea air made me pretty sleepy and I barely woke at all.

Dad mad a really smart ring of sand castles and I topped them all of with a shell or stone. Making them was pretty good fun, but stomping them all flat afterwards was even better!
Sunday started badly when I shut my thumb in the door…my nail went a bit red and it really hurt…..
But it soon get better after lunch when Fen and Yanna came over to play! I had a great time laughing at Yanna and Melissa!
And I managed to share my toys nicely and had an ace time launching my motorbikes over a line of cars with Fen. Then we went to the park:

I rode my bike there and the others rode scooters, that kept the grown ups busy trying to stop us from getting splatted on the road.
I slept through it all, surprising that isn’t it!
Monday we went swimming, my first time ever! I really enjoyed it and didn’t cry at all. I loved watching Ned splash about and was soon doing my own splashing too. It was really funny even though I didn’t quite know what to make of it.
I did, I jumped, slid, splashed and flopped about the place like a loony. We had to go on the fast slide as the slow one wasn’t open so that was good. Dad made a good job of it, but a trip down with Mum was far more eventful. We capsized coming round one of the bottom corners just before splash down, I went with Dad after that.
I had to have the last of my jabs today, Dad took me in and I only cried a little bit even though I had to have three! I did start to feel a little sorry for myself by the evening though and cried for almost half an hour, that’s a record for me! It was a good job Auntie Trish arrived to bring me back from the brink.

Shock horror (no, not just the Monday update) Mum went to work last Wednesday afternoon so we got a taste of what life will be like when she goes back to work in January.

To be honest, he did okay. We went out collecting conkers which is my favourite pass-time of the moment. I like it so much I’ve got them everywhere, but my favourite hiding place for them is one of the little overhead storage bins in the car. Every time we go around the corner they roll about making a load of noise. It drives Dad mad. After that it was on to the park:

We stayed and played for ages with my spider friends under the slide. Some of them had gone out to a wedding though…..
Friday afternoon we decided to go with Dad up the woods while he rode his bike, I stayed in the buggy until it was milk time:

I shouted at Dad as he went past to get to him to go faster and faster, I’d make a great team coach. I even walked the track with him to point out the fastest lines down.

We even had a group photo!
Saturday we went into town for a little shopping, it was good to be able to go in and see Auntie Christine again. We got balloons and lollipops although when Mum later gave one of the balloons to my friend Imogen from nursery I went ballistic.
In the evening we went round to see Kimi but he was lucky enough to be able to go to bed. I had to stay and eat prawn crackers with Andy before I finally decided ‘I’d had enough of this lot’ and suggested we go home…..I am very tactful.
Sunday I decided I was going to get creative with my play dough alien set:

After lunch we went to Lepe country park!

We obviously had an ice cream.

I decided I was going to go for a paddle, even though the sea was about twelve miles away.

Mum and I got to the water eventually.


Back on the beach we collected shells. We’re going to get some glue this week and make a picture out of them, that’ll be smart!
We had a cuddle in the warm sunshine:

That ought to help with the tan at this late time of year.

Mum took one of her famous close-up's, i'm so glad I get them too:

Monday we had a trip to the park, I’m always happy to go to the park.

I showed Ellis how high I could go on the swings.
I was pretty impressed actually.