Did you know i'm famous? I was in the Reading newspaper last week, snapped while racing the go-karts at the donkey derby. It's got my name underneath the picture and i'm described as a racing driver! Once we've found the scanner i'll get the picture up on here. Thanks to Melissa for buying us a copy, I bet dad hasn't given you the 50p yet?

Well it finally stopped raining for a bit this week and we didn’t have to do any boring house stuff so we went to play outside!

We’ve also had a bit of time around the house to read a book:

Cook a meal:

And line up a few cars:

On a slightly more unpleasant note I’ve passed my pukey squirts on to Ned.
Yeah, I was beautifully sick all over mum and dad’s bedroom floor on Wednesday morning. Wednesday and Thursday off nursery then, oh dear. It was a good job I went back for Friday though as Ted had been keen to come back and play with me after having most of the week off due to having a brand new sister, welcome to the club Ted!
Saturday mum had to go to work in the morning to make up some time for all the mornings she’s had off tending to us sickly ones (she also had Thursday off work because she had succumbed). We went to uncle Den and Auntie Gail for bit and then hijacked Den’s proper lawn mower to take home. In a total result for Dad, Den followed us down on his motorbike and cut all our waist high grass for us, tidied up the edges, trimmed back all manner of overgrown things and generally made the place look nice and tidy. Thanks ever so much Den, Dad would have taken weeks to get all that done!

We went to a party in the afternoon for Joshi and Imogen from nursery. It was carnage! Here’s a taster of the action, I know it isn’t the most finely composed shot of all time but I think it sums up proceedings nicely when Alastair, Hugo and I play together:

I also had a great time playing away from the hooligans in the little ones area and made the most of the wide open spaces I could cross on two legs using a walker!
I made sure I sat and had my lunch with Ted though, he does keep out of all the real rough and tumble wherever possible:

Before we got back to crazyness:

Sunday was party time for me, first off we all went to Tesco bright and early to get the barbecue supplies in before coming home for a rest.
Yeah, while Ellis was resting Dad and I emptied pretty much every garden toy we had from the garage out into the garden so we had plenty of entertainment!
Before long we had a house and garden full and a roaring barbecue, laden with sausages!
I’d like to thank everyone for all my lovely presents, cards and for coming to see me. I rather like being one! I'm so glad you all still know where we live!

I like you being one too, eat sausuages, play with everyone and spend all day running around in my underpants, how great is that!

Well we still don’t have an internet connection at our new home (or a phone line!) so if you’re struggling to get hold of us we’re really sorry!
Well we haven’t been up to much really, there’s been lots of packing and unpacking! I did get a new big boys seat for the car though, that was exciting. It uses the ordinary seat belt now so if any of you fancy taking me for a spin sometime it’s just got a whole lot easier.
Yep, and in the latest in a long line of hand-me-downs I’ve inherited Ned’s old car seat. Still, I shouldn’t complain as I do get to face the right way around now and I can look out of the window rather than at the back seat and car roof.
We can even hold hands in the back, which I love…
…..but I find a bit tiring sometimes.
So the big move day finally arrived, Andy took Dad off to get the van (he won in the end) and they were soon back with the biggest van I’d ever seen! Trish, Al, Carrie-Anne and Owen all turned up to help. Trish, Carrie-Anne, Ellis and I went round the park for a bit of a play leaving all the others to the hard work. I think I frightened them half to death as they didn’t trust my navigational skills.
Yep, we pretty much stayed out of the way, but sadly the camera got packed so there’s no real action shots.
Only problem was I missed out on the first trip over to the new house in the big van, I was pretty upset about that but it wasn’t long before there was another trip and I got to have a go. We were so high up I couldn’t believe it. We could see into everyone’s gardens as we drove along and I made a point of waving only to other van drivers as we drove around. It’s a good job Owen was on board with us though as Dad was having such a good time he forgot just how long the van was and came pretty close to a parked car. We spent the rest of the day playing with our rapidly unpacked toys before heading off to bed in my new room…my BIG new room. So big I can have my train set out all nice without that Ellis charging over and knocking it all down.
Yeah, well I’ve got my new room too, and very nice that is too!
So Sunday Mum and Dad promised us some time and some fun after all the upheaval. I rode with Dad to drop the van off (halfway to Reading), so that was a great start to the day. We carried on for Toys R Us, for a browse as I still had some birthday money to spend. Now this may shock a few of you, you might even think I’m a little bit weird, but I spent my money on a reversible princess dress (blue one side, yellow the other). There is a story behind it though, the girls always wear them to nursery and won’t share them with the boys like we do with our pirate or policeman outfits. I decided that if I took one in, I would let Hugo, Ted and Jude share it and put one over on the girls. Well that, and the fact that I like the way it looks when I twirl round. I learned a harsh lesson though and snagged it when running up the stairs and catching my shoe in it, oops.
I didn’t get anything as usual……
So it was then a bank Holiday, when everyone does something really exciting. Except us, we went back to our old house and did some cleaning!
Still, it was soon Tuesday and that means back to nursery. We had a whole new route to go, how exciting.
Well it was for you, I got wet from the overhanging bushes mum had to push the buggy past to stay out of the road.
And it was back to proper afternoon business with a trip to our new local park in the afternoon. It’s brilliant, it’s really close to our house and apart from a football pitch and a playground there’s a bike track (of sorts). I immediately started hustling for races but after seeing off one older girl, any further takers were scared off by my lightning speed.

I played on the swings, after riding there on the back of Dad’s bike. It was okay but I think my helmet needs some fine tuning as it keeps falling down over my eyes.

Still, the swings were really good, even though my pushes were few and far between due to Ned’s insistence on maximum height at all times.

We got back from the park and pretty soon after the Halfords all turned up. Max and I wasted no time in ransacking the toys! I understand that they are hopefully moving nearby soon, I can’t wait for that!
So after a load more unpacking and other dull old stuff it was soon the weekend again, hooray!
Or rather boooo, we were supposed to be going to stay in London with the Halfords but my tummy was really, really poorly. I was utterly pathetic as well and I reckon a weekend with all those crazy boys could well have finished me off! I’m really sorry we were a no show though Halfords, hope we can come again soon before you move or Mum won’t get her favourite curry again!



So we had to make the best of it, trapped in Newbury! We had a trip into town and got a big bag of cherries to eat on the way home, they were really lovely! I was desperate to show mum the park so we went down there in the afternoon. I made a new friend (another Jacob) who it turns out lives just down our road!





I played on some of the playground, but would quite honestly have rather stayed in for a kip. At one point I did actually try pushing myself home so I could have a comfy lie down.

Eagle eyed Dad had spotted a rather spectacular sounding event in Reading while out on a work do Friday night, a Donkey Derby in Twyford. Sadly that’s all the detail he had though and without the internet to look it up on we were pretty light on detail. Dad tried his colleague Gareth but his phone was off so had to ask another semi-local Kin what he knew. He told us where and when it was on and that he would meet us there! Excellent news. We arrived in time to have a donkey ride before the racing started as well:

The Law family soon turned up, we watched some (brutal) donkey racing, rode in a train, raced some buggies, rode on the fair, bounced in a bouncy castle, crashed some dodgems and ate some ice cream, it was fantastic fun!

Here I am with the ticket inspector!


Fen and I eyeing up the options on the race track.

Seeing if I can get a drift going round the corner!


And here we all are on the teacups.
Then it was today, my birthday! I am one, how about that!
I had some presents at breakfast time which was nice, the paper was better than the presents within. After a last minute change of plan (they didn’t fancy taking me to the pool with my icing bag tummy for some reason) we set off for Longleat safari park. Considering the weather it was actually a pretty smart move as we could drive round and see al the animals from the dry comfort of the car.

Except for out brief excursion around Wallaby walk, we even saw one in it's mum's pouch. I wish my mum had a pouch.....

I didn't quite make it over the entire puddle.....

I had to drive around some of the more tricky sections of the Safari Park.

Arty mirror shot, did we mention the rain?

And he we both are, dissing the king of the jungle in favour of Kate Humble on the CD commentary.
We had a lovely time once I had got Dad to promise not to open the windows at any point near (or indeed NOT near) any animals.

We got home and had a little quiet time doing some nice colouring. It’s the best birthday I’ve ever had!
Hope to see you all Sunday afternoon for a bit more of the same (except the rain).

Okay then, as most of you will know, we've just moved house and as a result we're back to the dark ages of not having an internet connection at the moment!
Hopefully normal service will be resumed shortly, in the meantime we'd like to thank Auntie Trish, Uncle Al (northern monkey), Carrie-Anne, Andy and Owen for all their hard work and company on Saturday, I know Mum and Dad really appreciated it.
And everyone else, feel free to come and see us, all of our toys are unpacked!
Oh yeah, driving round in big vans is ace.......

Well there isn't much to say this week i'm afraid as we haven't done anything.
He's pretty much right, except i've really started to get around with purpose now. Really fast and into everything, you can't leave anything lying around or i'll try and eat it/break it/throw it.
The reason for all this inactivity? We're moving so Mum and Dad are frantically tarting up the house for someone else to live in it...i'm sure there's some warped logic there somewhere....

As part of all this we bribed Andy with tea the other night so he would check our electrics out for us. He had a screwdriver that lit up when you put it against a lightswitch....it was the best thing i've ever seen and i'll certainly be putting it on my christmas list this year. It even light up if you rubbed it on Ellis' back, she must have electric inside her! As you can see from my attire, i've been dressing up a lot lately. I disappeared off upstairs the other afternoon on my own and came back down dressed like this:

Ello ello ello, evening all etc. I thin I looked pretty good in it, I must have done as I manged to convince mum to join in:

Friday night then, Auntie Christine decided she'd rather go on holiday to Portugal than look after us, so Auntie Trish got a look in for the first time! Why has it taken so long? We had a lovely night and she performed above and beyond the call of duty by reading me THREE bedtime stories. Mum was having none of it the following night and I was back to earth with a bump with the more usual one. Booo!

We went to fantasy land saturday morning (hope you come next time Abi, sorry but Mum and Dad are shocking at organising anything).

I didn't think much of the apples, the skins seemed pretty tough! I had my first real play there and really enjoyed it. It was also strangley quiet in there so we pretty much had the run of the place which was nice. Ned showed me the ropes and I had a great time exploring.

We popped round to have a look at our new house, it all seems very exciting and I will have a massive bedroom...plenty of room for my toys!

After that we went to Abi's house to watch something called the FA cup final, it was rubbish but mum won the sweep so that was a result! I just made myself at home playing with Abi's toys and making a big old mess.

And I decided to be a miserable little monkey, fidget, cry and generally be a pain in the neck for once.

Sunday was another miserable housebound afair, the sole highlight being a trip to Waitrose for something to tea. I made the most of this hour of freedom from the confines of home and had a lovely time!

The gasman came to sevice the boiler on monday and seeing as i'm feeling pretty handy about the place following my stint as an electricians mate, I decided he needed a hand. I soon got bored though, he didn't have a light up screwdriver, just a noisy hoover.

Well it looks like summer is really here now, hooray!
It’s pretty much my first one, by the time I was born last year it was pretty much all over and done with as far as I can remember. The weather has been so nice that they’ve even had the paddling pool out at nursery for us, I really loved and spent ages in there all on my own long after the others had got out. We’ve also been playing with ice cubes, unorthodox maybe, but most intriguing!
Dad and I’s tour of the local skateparks and bike jumps saw us make a visit to the Greenham skatepark this week:

I thought it was rubbish but Dad loved it on his skateboard.
I didn’t mind it sat in my buggy in the shade watching them zoom about.
I much prefer fish fingers though:

I’ve been allowed to feed myself fish fingers and chips! I’m getting proper grown up. I love fish fingers as you can see here:

There was a distinct lack of trolleys at Tesco last week so for the first time I ever I sat in the normal kids seat, not those rubbish laid back baby ones, Ned loved having me alongside him and he stayed in the trolley for the entire shopping trip (much to Dad’d delight).
I don’t much like my sun protection headwear mind you:

No, nor do I Ellis, that’s part of my pirate ensemble.

We had the paddling pool out at the weekend while the gardeners got to work, about time too!
Saturday afternoon we went to see Yanna and Fen……it’s been too long!

Theres always soooo much to play with.

Here’s Abi and I before she took the plunge fully clothed.

And I decided to follow suit!

Kin helped Yanna and I by giving us a good old dunking after a bounce on the trampoline.

Mum and I played water pistols, we tried not to involve any innocent by-standers but you can’t make an omelette without breaking any eggs!

I did some driving…

And a bit of cuddling.
I had to have some new shoes at the weekend as well after I stared complaining that my shoes made my feet hurt. There was a bit of a standoff in the shoe shop when I wanted the ones with lights in them, and Mum and Dad wanted the other pair. I let them convince me the ones without lights would be faster so went along with them. I like to let them win now and again.
We’ve been looking at mini beasts at nursery (insects and the like), it’s pretty good. I don’t really like creepy crawlies much though so we’ve been taking handfuls of moss and goodness knows what else in for the nature basket. Mum reckons me and her will fill it right up before long.
So while we’re on the subject of beasts, Uncle Alan came round for his usual Sunday evening roast on Sunday, literally minutes after he’d finished his roast lunch! He also managed to force some apple pie down as well….he puts me to shame!

We had a barbecue tonight, yes that’s right on Tuesday night, crazy or what?

The burnt meat wasn’t up to much, but the donuts certainly were:

I just enjoyed being outside as my cup made a better noise when I threw it down on the floor:


Here's a video for ya....