All back to ‘normal’ this week then. Boo! But it’s not so bad really is it?
Biking last week at the BMX track again, I was well up for it, maybe a little too up for it….I was coming down at quite a rate this time around when I took a jump a little too fast, had a bit of a wobble on landing and crashed into the next jump:

I hit the ground so hard my handlebars dug into the earth. I thought that was pretty cool, cool enough to stop me crying anyway. I had a pretty disappointing bruise count for such a hard crash. I was soon back on it though, albeit a little bit slower this time.

I sat and watched, I know how mum must feel now:

I did quite enjoy it though, it was a decent enough day to top up my tan a little bit.
Dad took Ellis and I shopping for mum’s birthday presents and cards, we did really well I reckon. I decided I didn’t want to make her a card this time around but told Dad that he had to instead while Ellis and I went for shop bought numbers. Once we were home Dad got busy with the glitter and paints under my careful guidance but he did it all wrong…he didn’t make hardly any mess at all!
Friday night we went to see Auntie Trish and Uncle Al in Amazingstoke, how exciting. We ate, we drank drinks with bubbles in, we went to the park and we had some quiet time watching telly. I was only there a couple of hours but we like to pack it all in!
I accompanied Mum and Dad on a secret mission to Toys R Us to get Ned some birthday presents (don’t tell him).
Saturday was Legoland time again!
Brilliant, I love Legoland, I get to drive:

But not only cars, we did boats as well this time:

Ned went in with Mum and I went in with Dad, we chased them all the way around the track waiting to make our move on the final corner. It all ended in big coming together and much shuffling of boats to get past.
I expect these pictures will look very much like the ones from our last visit, except Ellis will be bigger and I have probably had a haircut or something:


This time around though we stumbled upon the outdoor show arena just as it was about to start so we picked a nice spot and started on the picnic. I was soon pretty much agog at the high diving, jet ski-ing, kung fu fighting action and sat with my mouth open, baguette in hand until it had finished. I then finished my food and started stalking the cast members who were wandering around the poolside. It was brilliant and probably the highlight of my day…..well except for the big dragon rollercoaster that I decided I would go on, even though I hadn’t seen it properly (it’s tucked out of sight behind the castle). It was okay to begin with and then we climbed up a big hill before plunging down so fast I could barley believe it. After a few turns we started to climb again and I advised Dad I’d rather not have another big speedy drop, but it was too late, we were soon plunging down again. I was quite shaken up when we got off but after I’d calmed down I told Mum it was my favourite ride!

Even though I laughed the most on it’s smaller, less scary version with Mum.

We went on the big wheel, I explored a possible career direction for later life.
I loved the little train as I could go on it on my own, I had about 300 laps of this while Mum and Ellis had a nappy pitstop.

I had quite a nautical day, here we are on the fairytale brook thing:

I really enjoyed it, Ned was a bit skittish though, I think he was waiting for the big scary drop or growling attacking monster that never came.
Mum drew the short straw and had to come on the ride that required real physical exertion:

We got there when it opened and reluctantly left when they kicked us out because it was closing……what a great day out!
So we’d already had a pretty exciting start to the weekend, when Mum shouted up to us that we should look out of the window Sunday morning I could barley believe my eyes!

Snow! Loads of it! We didn’t have a carrot in the stock cupboard so I ruled out a snowman early doors. Owen was keen though and he was soon round:

We decided to head for Northcroft and were soon joined by Alan and Andy as well as Laura and James (hope the legs better Andy). There were snowballs and sledgeing aplenty.

The only problem was that I didn’t have any wellies since we lost one on holiday so I had pretty cold and wet feet. Poor parenting indeed.
I couldn’t see the attraction myself:

Although I think my lovely tan did contrast very well with the white snow didn’t it Laura!
Uncle Alan made me a snowball, thanks Alan. I t was wet cold and horrible:

I didn’t like it at all and could quite easily understand why everybody was throwing them about.
We soon got dry and warm and headed for Grandad’s for lunch where I showed off my standing up skills:

We went to the patk and I showed Alan how to ride a springy motorbike:

Even I had a little go:

Before Grandad and Anne gave me a push on the swings:

Then it was Mum’s birthday. Naturally I unwrapped her presents, opened her cards and ate her cake (actually, I didn’t eat the cake as I didn’t really like it. I did carry it in from the kitchen singing happy birthday though).

I also got to eat some delicious wrapping paper once again, it’s a shame such a tasty delicacy is reserved for such special occasions.
So after all that I was pretty tired:

Hopefully you'll now find this weeks video underneat. I've put my foot down with the wussy music this week though and insisted on using one of my sing along favourites by the Hives...enjoy!

We’re back, we didn’t freeze to death, get blown away or flooded out, quite the contrary in fact but before we get onto the holiday stuff I need to mention my uncle Alan, the other one. How lucky can a little girl be to have not one, but two uncle Alan’s? While noisy uncle Alan took Ned and Mum to see Grandma (who’s still in hospital) in the racing Aygo, Auntie Trish and Uncle Al came over to see us. Uncle Al and I had a lovely cuddle for ages and ages, I’d never been this close to a northerner before.
I’ve also been grinding my five teeth, much to Mum’s annoyance and trying to stand up at every opportunity. Everyone else seems to be able to, so I don’t see why I shouldn’t!
Yeah yeah yeah whatever…holidays!!!!
First off, things were a little weird, we didn’t go to the usual cravan we had one right at the front of the park over looking the sea, but best of all it overlooked Gary’s shop. I decided pretty much there and then I was going to have a great week.
Once we had said our hello’s to Andy, John, Sarah, Mark, Amy, Jean and John and lifted the microwave from the Hardy van (thanks Hardy’s) we got straight on the beach and had a poke around the dunes:

We had lovely leisurely breakfasts without having to rush for work and nursery:

We even got to share a bedroom which was great fun in the mornings when we woke up and amused ourselves for ages before the grown ups got out of bed.
I was relieved that the Easter Bunny gets as far as Cornwall:

We went to Crealy, now quite why we’ve never been here before is a mystery to me, they have a horse track:

We went on it again and again and again:

Now my love of horses is well documented I know, but these ones were even better as Dad kept finding mini easter eggs in their ears!
I decided to sit it out in my buggy:

We rode motorbikes:

I nearly got lost in the ball pool:

I fed a baby goat, it sucked on it’s bottle much harder than Ellis does on hers:

We went on hundreds of slides, hundreds of times:


I made Dad’s ears bleed screaming for speed on the pirate ship:

Mum and I went the fastest boats in the world:

And got very wet indeed:

And we went on the log flume, the water was freezing:

What a great day out and we’d only been away for a day!
We had more beach action:

But sadly we lost one of my Lightning Mcqueen wellies to the sea. I was quite upset about that.
I soon cheered up though, we were soon off to Polzeath for bouncy castles:


Ice creams:

(notice the lack of coats)
And rockpools:

I was king of the castle once again:

We even went for a paddle:

Even Dad joined in for once.
We admired the view out of the window:

We went to Eden project, it looked so exciting from the outside:

But was pretty boring inside, it was all just plants:

And it was very, very warm:

But it wasn’t all a let down, they had an ice rink so Dad took me skating:

It was great fun, I let him hold my hands most of the way round the rink until we got to two lovely young ladies I had my eye on that were watching from the side. Every time we went past them I made him let go and fend for himself.
Then it was back to the beach for some surfing, the sea wasn't as cold as the log flume:

And Frisbee in the sun shine:

Before cleaning the sand from my feet in a rather novel manner:

Having our first lunch of the year out on the picnic blanket:

and doing some more looking out of the window.

Even tough I managed to injure myself on a daily basis one way or another (falling on the corner of a box/impaling myself on a post/falling into Ellis' travel cot/running into a head high barrier and plenty more i've forgotten but still bear the bruises from) what a great week, I really didn’t want to come home and was quite vocal about it.
It wasn’t all bad though, Auntie Christine came round to watch Charlie and the Chocolate factory with me on Saturday night while Mum and Dad went out. I really loved it and stayed up really late to see the end. Thanks for helping explain what was going on Auntie Christine, I had a lovely night.