Late again, got jet lag as an excuse this time round though.
So with all the worry of volcanic ash clouds, the British Airways strike and even oil pumping out into the gulf of Mexico I reckon we were lucky to even make it on holiday and return in one piece really.
So after an early start we were at the airport and once we'd looked in some shops, had all our drinks confiscated and had some breakfast there was nothing left to do bar waiting, we didn't mind too much though as we were really rather excited to be going to Florida, which is in America. We watched the planes through the window for a bit:

I asked endless questions about what the time was in America so I could try and understand just what on earth was going on.
When we passed through security, the computer decided that I should be searched a bit more thoroughly than everyone else. I had to be frisked with a pat down and empty all my toys from my hand luggage to be checked out. Everyone else seemd to find this all quite entertaining, even though I wasn't so keen on it all.
We boarded the plane, how exciting, even if it was for 9 hours. I'd been well briefed so knew we were in for a long one. Inbetween playing DS, talking to Hayley, Alan and Andy and watching my very own telly on the back of the seat in front of me the time soon passed with little trauma (even if the in flight meal didn't meet my liking, good job we had a packed lunch with us).
I also rather enjoyed the flight, every seat is first class when your legs are as short as mine after all. I also got to visit the toilet several hundred times so was more than happy.
We made it to America, when we got off the plane we had to be let in the country by men with guns! When we got asked if we had any food with us, Mum let on we were carrying a jar of marmite. The man told her to shut up and move on....ahem. We didn't even need marmite in the land of hot dogs!
Next task was to pick up our car for the week, well, minivan as they are called in America.
The lady said we could go into the parking lot and pick whichever one we wanted, so we made our way to the minivan section and deliberated for a little while. I initially wanted the black one, but Alan said it would get too hot, the maroon one was just too old man for us lot and we eventually settled on bright white!
The van was cool, literally, it had so many air conditioning buttons to play with. The doors also opened and shut themselves when you pressed their buttons, I loved that.
We got the car seats installed in the best seats in the van and then hit the road, the wrong side of the road at that!
Dad was driving so Alan and I made sure he was reminded plenty of times that he should drive on the left.
I was more interested in getting him to do a u-turn whenever possible by shouting 'do a u-ey' at any oppurtunity.
Despite all this we arrived at the villa, did we mention it was hot at all? My goodness we were melting:

So it was pretty lucky that we had our own pool to cool down in:

Andy won the race to be first one in. We followed close behind though.
But I was last one to get out, when the sun started to go down, which in UK time was something like 3 in the morning. We did well I reckon?

So a few things about the villa then, it was BIG.

There were loads of little frogs hopping about at night time outside.

There was an air hockey table in the garage:

There was a great big fridge that we filled with soda (Mountain Dew, my new favourite drink)

There was a waste disposal chute in the sink that seemed to keep Dad and Alan entertained for hours while they fed it various leftover foodstuffs. The cucumber and weiners seemed to be the best judging by their reactions. The whole lime seemed to be something of a mistake by all accounts.

Ned and I's bedroom had mickey mouse pictures on the walls, Mickey mouse bedclothes and even our own telly, it was rather comfy too:

But it was all about the pool for me:

I learned to dive properly as well, even though the sign said no diving.

Our first day out then, the waterpark Aquatica:

I've never seen so many slides, tubes, lazy rivers and what have you.

There was even a massive playground for us smaller ones to explore.

The only thing we didn't like was how hot the concrete got on our bare feet.
I was completely brave and went on everything I could. There was a pool of dolphins that a tube slide went through, sadly I wasn't tall enough to go on it, but everyone else said it was rubbish anyway:

We certainly enjoyed watching the dolphins go about their business though.

Being a waterpark we didn't get too many pictures though so sorry about that.
Next day was Disneys Animal Kingdom. We went on Safari on one of these buses:

Obviously we weren't going to sit with Mum and Dad, so her I am with Alan:

While I sat with Hayley, We soon headed off for Africa and to see the animals.

And there were plenty of animals to see, Lions, Elephants, Rhino's, Hippos and Giraffes were all present and correct.

The truck were really cool and drove along the rivers and everything, where we saw some Gators of course! As well as seeing a Proper American Eagle in the bird show. I loved that!
It wasn't all animals though, there were of course rides too, here we are on the Triceratop Spin:

There was also the Expedition Everest ride, where you chase a big scary Yeti. I enjoyed it, but didn't want another go.....

We also rode the Kali River Rapids, now I really liked this to start with, but once we made a steep drop and got soaking wet I wasn't so sure after all. I did like my wristband I got to wear though as it showed I was a big girl (well big enough to go on the ride anyway)
We also went on the Dinosaur ride, which to put it mildly was terrifying, but also a lot of fun.

After all that excitment it was certainly time for an ice cream, trouble is in that heat they do tend to melt rather quickly:

We met Jimminy Crickett, I have no idea at all who he is but he seemed a jolly sort of fellow:

We ducked our heads in a rather brilliant fountain and ended up getting soaked:

I showed Ellis how you get to the front in time to get a good view of the parade:

We saw Mickey Mouse in his safari gear and gave him a wave:

The tree of life was pretty cool too:

Even if the Bugs Life 3D cinema was underneath it. We hated that didn't we Ellis?

Yes, it was very scary indeed, well, we thought so anyway.

The festival of the Lion King show on the other hand was utterly brilliant, trampoling, singing, dancing, the works!

We weren't quite ready for the late afternoon downpour we encountered when we left the theatre though! Quite a shock that was, not that we cared, I was soaked from the fountain...

...and I was fast asleep in Mums arms anyway.

Next day was a trip to the West coast and Clearwater beach:

It was hot hot hot:

We set up camp:

We dug in the lovely fine sand:

We cuddled up to stay out of the sun:

And we splashed in the sea that was as warm as our bath water usually is!

My highlight was probably the 'Superman' ice cream though:

We ended up watching a bit of football on the way back during one of Ellis frequent toilet (sorry, restroom) breaks:

It was way too hot for all this running around, they must have been mad!

Next day and Alan, Hayley and Andy went to Universal studios to go on some of the scary rides (with scary ticket prices by the sounds of it too). We had a quiet day in, bit of a lay in, bit of a swim in the pool and a bit of a kip for Dad and I in the afternoon.

While Mum and I went for a walk around the lake out the back of the villa. There was a rather tame crane type of bird and a lot of ants. Didn't like the ants much, so we headed back. We spoke to the pool attendant who was very excited about the world cup and had drawn England in his sweepstake.

In the evening we went to the Magic Kingdom to see the Electric Parade and the fireworks, Andy tagged along too, he has mega them park endurance!

We got there just as the parade started and got good views, once were sat on some shoulders:

We absoloutley loved every second of it, the music, the characters, the sparkling lights.

Not quite so sure about the fireworks afterwards if truth be told, though I did venture out from behind Dad a few times.
Next on the agenda, another water park, this time Blizzard Beach, where everything looked snowy:

But once again the concrete was red hot!

I really found my feet here, there were some great slides for little ones and indeed not so little ones that I really loved. I was also happy to fly solo in a rubbber ring on the lazy river, in fact I loved it, especially under the waterfalls.

Yeah, I rather enjoyed it too, especially the aerial runway that went across a pool before coming to a sudden stop, sending you flying into the water below. Once again I went on all the slides my height would allow and only really missed out on the one with the really big drop. Technically I outdid Dad anyway as he didn't even go on the chairlift to the top the big scaredy cat.

The only small downer was my little fall down a couple of steps. Fortunatley though we were in full view of the ice cream lady and just next to the first aid station. A quick squirt of some magic spray and a funky plaster later I was all fixed up, the complimentary ice creams from the lady on the stall who saw the whole debacle went some way to speed up my recovery.

When we got back, it was Rat-a-tat-cat time, i'd been having a few sly practice games with Mum so I was well up for it. I had my strategy down and plenty of luck on my side. I recorded an historic win. To say I was pleased was rather an understatement:

Day seven, Kennedy Space Centre.

The place is so big you have to go round on a bus, brilliant, we love buses!

It's also a nature reserve, so we got to see plenty of wildlife, particularly the vultures circling. I kept moving at all times in case they thought I was dead and tried to eat me. Best of all though we got to see a real life Gator, just hanging out in his river.

I contemplated rocket engines:

We looked out over the launch pads:

After another bus ride we saw the most powerful and complicated machine ever built, the Saturn 5 rocket that took the astronauts to the moon:

It was gigantic and took us ages to walk all the way along it. And the really mad bit is that the astronauts only used the very end bit!
We had a poke around in the space shuttle:

We tried out some of the rocket capsules:

But even we decided they were far too small to be comfortable:

We wandered around the rocket garden:

And got to meet a real life astronaut, not sure he was expecting my enthusiastic cuddle I usually use on the Disney characters though:

Once were done at the space centre poor old Hayley finally gave in and made a visit to the doctor after struggling bravely on for a good few days while we took Andy to Cocoa Beach on the East coast. He was soon in the sea of course. We stayed on the sands though:

We then made a visit to Ron Jon's surf shop for some new t-shirts, I wasn't allowed these rather fabulous Doggie shoes though:

After a minor nightmare with the Sat Nav we managed to pick up Alan and Hayley again and drive back to the villa through an amazing thunderstorm.

So then, day 7, the 3rd of June, MY BIRTHDAY! I even had presents this far away from home, cool or what?

I had some lovely things but we were soon heading out to the Magic Kingdom for the day:

And here we are on Main Street USA:

As it was my birthday we pushed the boat out and had a double stroller for the day (and some rather fetching hats of course):

We went on mums favourite ride, and this time I was old enough:

We met Stitch, thought i'd give him a kiss:

We went into Minnie's house for a mooch about:

We even got to meet Mickey and Minnie themselves:

I also managed to tick off Space Mountain (after a lot of deliberation, turns out I loved it) and big Thunder Mountain Railroad (twice it was so good).

I loved the Many adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Cinderella's carousel.

But then of course it was the main event, my birthday meal with Winnie and the gang.

I wasn't too sure of Eeyore to be honest, Ned seemed okay with him though:

He also seemed to like the main man himself, Winnie:

And with Mum in tow, Tigger seemed kind of okay:

But it was Piglet I really warmed to:

So much so that I gave him a little kiss:

And was very pleased with myself:

I got a mickey Mouse cake with my name on it and three candles:

And I even got a Birthday Card from Winnie, Tigger, Eeyore and of course the lovely Piglet.

After a while I was quite happy with all of them and gave Winnie a good old tickling with Ned:

We hung around to watch the night time parade again, we loved it so much last time:

Mickey was on form, having made a costume change since we saw him earlier in the day:

As had Minnie:

I gave her a wave, as did Alan:

We didn't stay for the fireworks this time though, it had been a long, long day. What a great birthday I had, hope this happens every year?

So there was a bit of a lay in the next day, when we finally got out we headed for Disney Hollywood Studios. We watched the Beauty and the Beast stage show which went down well (well it wasn't a 3D cinema was it).

Then it was time for the Tower Of Terror ride, i'd been fretting on this one for a while but I decided I was up for it, so on it we went. I loved it, not enough for two goes, but I was certainly very pleased with myself for going on:

The taller members of the party then got to go on the Rock and Rollercoaster that I had to sit out. Still, we had a nice dance in the gift shop (video to follow later).

So then it was our last proper day, and out trip to Discovery Cove, to see the fishes.

And to swim with the Dolphins, I was so up for this. We arrived and got stuck into breakfast before getting issued with our masks, snorkels and thick, stodgy dolphin friendly sun cream.

There was a really big lagoon filled with sting rays and all sorts of brightly coloured fish, we weren't too sure of them to be honest but we enjoyed watching them go by.

We headed off for our dolphin swim soon afterwards. We watched a really cool video and then our guide took us out to the dolphin pool. Our dolphin was called CJ, and he was half bottlenose, half atlantic dolphin. He was really playfull, let us stroke his skin and waved at us with his flippers, I loved him. After we learned a bit about him and I asked the keeper plenty of questions (not as many as Mum did mind you) it was swim time. We held him by the fin and the flipper and he took us for a zoom accross the pool, it was fantastic. Some pictures may surface at a later date.....

I didn't get to go in but sat in the rocks with Andy, Alan and Hayley. I loved watching them in the water though.

After that we went for a float through the lazy river and I got the hang of my snorkel and mask in no time at all. I loved it, there was even an aviary on one section and there were loads of brightly coloured birds you could feed. I preferred it in the water though, exploring the depths.

I loved the lazy river, good excuse for a cuddle when you're litte isn't it?

We watched the others have their dolphin swim and then it was onto the Ray Lagoon, I got all brave and stroked one, it was really slimey actually. Once i'd touched on there was no stopping me.

I tried, but kept missing as they kept swimming too deep and i've only got short arms.

I gave Mum a quick snorkel lesson and she was soon off accross the lagoon looking at the fish, I think she was pretty pleased with her progress.

As it was an early finish, we headed for the Mall, we hadn't really done any shopping all week so I suppose it wasn't the end of the world. There were a good selection of ride-ons anyway, they helped hoover up all the spare quarters we had amassed anyway.

As usual, Dad had a hidden agenda, the Vans Skatepark just so happened to be in the mall. It looked great and I really wanted a go, next time.......

I slept through the whole shopping experience, can't believe I missed out on some potential new stuff!

So that was the end of the holiday, all we had to do was pack, kill some time, eat some lunch, take the car back and board the plane for a long flight home.

I'd like to thank everyone who gave me dollars to take, you can rest assure I put them to good use (except for the sweets I bought with my change in the airport, truly yucky).

And of course a big thanks to Uncle Alan for sorting it all out and Hayley and Andy for putting up with us!

So here's our last picture, here I am living the dream, a hot dog in my Mickey Mouse bed!

Trampolining is still suffering from low numbers, we get a trampoline each every week. It's brilliant not having to share but very tiring. It didn't wear my jaw out though, I told the instructor lady pretty much everything that had happened in the last week in great detail.
Swimming lessons...really bored of them now. I was however pretty pleased to do a whole width of the big pool doing backstroke.
Dad was rubbish on thursday, he came to pick me up from nursery just as the water play stuff was coming out....what a rotter. I nearly tripped over my bottom lip on the way out.
Shimon came round for tea, after a little bit of negotiation we ended up having a great time with the hot wheels stuff in my room.
Friday I wore my lovely new flip flops to nursery and also decided to take my Crocs along in case I fancied a change mid-morning. Dad despairs I think.
We had our now usual friday night trip to the park after tea again. Lovely!
So the weekend was upon us, we paid a visit to Grandma in her home, the grounds are lovely:

Here I am flying my plane. I had a kick around with Dad and we spotted a small deer and a pheasant lurking in the undergrowth.
Us girls sat about in the sunshine:

We made a daisy chain, looked lovely I thought:

In the end, even Dad and I succumbed to some lazy sunshine lolling:



We headed home for lunch and then I was off to Eva's party, the social event of my year so far.
We played pass the parcel:

We played musical statues (well, something like it anyway...):

And we had party food of course:

All my nursery friends were there and we had a lovely time outside, especially in the paddling pool.
And while all this was going on, Dad and I played Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics on the Wii. How very seasonal. I missed Mum and Ellis very much though, even if they were only gone two hours.
Then it was on to Kimi and Marny's place for more paddling pool action, i'm loving the water:

I'm practicing my best brit abroad look, shirt off, eating McDonalds:

Sunday was another lovely day, we ended up having a lunchtime barbecue with Grandad and Anne, Alan and Hayley and Andy. It was really hot and sunny so trampoline time was sweaty work!
So, no update next week as it's holiday time! A bit further afield than Wales this time but hopefully it'll be just as good, see you all soon!

Well we well and truly missed last week didn't we?
Ooops, yeah sorry about that, things have been quite busy recently so sit tight and we'll play catch up.
Been doing lots of sports lately, Tennis at school has been great fun, we've played plenty of it and I love it. Mum came to see me at swimming lessons, I don't think she was particularly impressed with what she saw. After Dad and Auntie Christine had bigged me up I was more interested in racing accross the pool and mucking about with my float.
Then of course it was voting day, i wasn't nearly so excited about as Ned was.
No, I had been whipped up into a frenzy by the whole thing and couldn't wait to go to the polling station after tea. It was all a bit of a let down truth be told, all over very quickly. I wasn't allowed to vote (even after questionning the lady behind the desk at length) so it was a complete wash out as far as I was concerned. Apparently no one really won either, weird!
We took our old cat to the vet for a check over, she appears to be fine and well, even if she is getting a bit straggly looking. I'll make sure she gets plenty of cuddles.
Alan Hayley and Andy came round on the friday evening, to discuss holiday matters, all very exciting!
Not as exciting as Alan's monster bucket of KFC, chips anyone?
So back to last weekend then and it was haircut time. We love haircuts.

I even got some wax to put in mine, when I can be bothered of course.
We were due to have a barbecue at my friend Hugo's in the afternoon....
And my friend Luca's (Hugo's little brother), not forgetting Matice of course (the inbetwen brother).
But the weather was rubbish. We went to JJ's instead. How exciting was that?
We had a great time playing with the boys.
And I went down the drop slide all on my own loads of times.
I went down on Dad's lap a few times too!
On the sunday we had a nice lie in and then went for a walk accross the field:

To the big park up at Wash Common:

These big swings still give me a peculiar feeling down below you know!

We did loads of climbing of course:

And then had to walk back. I was okay most of the way....with baby Faye in her buggy.

We had Alan and Hayley to babysit for us on a school night, they turned up with McDonalds this time, with an extra portion of chips for us, how lovely of them. They really do eat like kings!

They let us stay up pretty late, seeing as it was a school night.

Not late enough for my liking of course.

Mum came to see me at trampolining club last week in her lunch hour. I loved showing off my tricks and the height of my bouncing to her. I didn't like her leaving and going back to work though. Much sobbing. Oh dear.

My swimming was much better this week though, I can now do proper backstroke. Not sure why you would want to swim backwards though.....

Had a trip to the dentist on Thursday, I love the dentist almost as much as the barbers. The dentist said I had really nice teeth, nice and clean and alligned. I took a spiderman sticker for my trouble.

And I bottled out of a trip up and down in the seat at the last minute, but still helped myself to Princess sticker on the way out.

It's that time of year again when we can go out after tea. We headed off to the local park friday night on our bikes.

I love the park, there's always someone there from school to play with.

So then we're back to this weekend and after months of planning and re-planning we finally got to go to the woods with Shimon and Yannick on our bikes. And climb trees. And eat biscuits. Great stuff.

We had a few friends over for a barbecue on saturday afternoon, which of course meant trampoline action! And the chance to show off my hula-hooping skills. I'm really quite the expert at that you know!

We had a trip to the shops to pick up a few holiday items on Sunday, and in a rare turn of events no one got angry or shouted or got marched back to the car (including Dad). Bit of a result all round that one I reckon?

I started my new multi skills sports club after school on Monday afternoon. I loved it, even if it does mean I get to watch a little less telly. We played dodgeball this week, was good to be on the winning side of course.

I made the most of my longer Ned free afternoon by having the trampoline to myself as well as the TV remote.

Speaking of Ned free entertainment, Dad and I went to the big park in town at lunchtime with Mum today, we had a nice play and an ice lolly (don't tell Ned)

Our school project this week is about the art of Jackson Pollock, we took to the garden to do some action painting:

The finished work really did look quite good.....
And I think thats just about it and everything is back up together?

I had a cool reading from school last week:

So even though we have a trampoline at home I still like to go to Northcroft on a Wednesday for a bounce with 'my friends' This week we had a different teacher and because there were only four of us we had a trampoline each! Pretty tiring that was I can tell you.

I had swimming again, truth be told i'm getting rather bored of it all now.......

When we got home, Dad made us have a bbq for tea instead of sitting in the nice warm dining room:

I went to nursery dressed as Peter Pan for a world record attempt no less! Good work on the costume making Mum:

I loved the outfit so much I wore it home when Dad came to get me. I did get changed before going to school to get Ned though.

Sue came to look after us friday night (Happy 40th Nick), we had a good evening as always.

And then it was the weekend and things all got most irregular.

We went off to stay with Auntie Christine and Uncle Ian while Mum and Dad went off to London for the night. They were going somewhere fancy apparently, but who cares what they were up to anyway!

We had packed our overnight bags and we were off! We spared Mum and Dad an emotional farewell as quite frankly we couldn't care less that they were going.

We had a lovely time, we went to Milletts farm, we baked cakes with fancy icing, we made play dough and best of all we watched the Sound of Music....again and again and again, Uncle Ian loved it!

We really did have a lovely time so thanks very much to Auntie Christine and Uncle Ian. I hope it wasn't too traumatic for you both.

Monday then, Crafty Raft day, and as always the weather was a bit rubbish. Still, we headed out with some of the gang the biggest draw being the fair of course.

Max and I went on the mixer on our own, we loved it:

Leo and I settled for the more sedate roundabout:

But we all got on the bumper cars, here I am with Mum:

And here I am with Andy, I managed to palm Dad off on Max:

It was top fun.

Although I had almost nodded off by the end of it all.

We wandered back to Kimi's house afterwards to play with his toys....good stuff!

Trampoling club again this week after ages of not going. I think having one at home is paying dividends, I got my seat drops spot on even though I was very tired and spent a good portion of the time trying to sleep on the outside cushions.
Swimming lessons then, still loving them, still really going for it. Dad reckons I must take after mum as i'm really fast across the pool.
We went for a visit to the park on Thursday after school, there were plenty of my friends there (mostly girls though).
And i'm well and truly big enough not to need any help at all from Dad on any of the stuff any more so he has nothing to do now really.
We came home and had another right good bounce on the trampoline, we've only not been on it one day since we had it.
I most certainly did not want to get up on Friday morning and couldn't understand why mum was trying to wake me up for nursery. Dad came to pick me up on the bike, we had a lovely ride home but I decided I didn't like riding too close to the canal. Dad tried to appease me by takingn a shortcut across the most bumpy field in the world. I didn't much like that either!
We went to the shops after tea to get some summer hats and the like.
I sniffed out a lovely Peppa Pig sun suit but the only one they had in my size was on a model on the shelf. We asked the helpful assistant very nicely and we soon had it arms and legs off to remove the items in question. Much hilarity and bewilderment ensued.
Saturday, Legoland:

About time too!
After a serious hat stealing incident at the ticket office involving a member of staff (ha ha) we were soon in the park.
We both lied to get on the little cars, Ellis was magically 3 and I was five again so we could get on together.
Truth be told, I wasn't very good at driving, but I enjoyed it all the same:

Not sure about the rigmarole we had to go through to get our driving licences though, I was however very proud of mine.

I had a starring role in the new Pirates show. I got to go on stage waving a pirate flag and then had to ring the bell to start the show. I loved it up there in front of everyone. I especially enjoyed being able to go round the back where all the pirates were waiting to start and having a chat with them.
Best of all was of course our ice creams in the sunshine:

And do you know what else, I went the whole day without my buggy, I walked everywhere, all day long, with my own little legs!
Party time on Sunday, this time Shimons belated one. The them was jungle animals. I'd decided a cheetah was the way forward. Dad cracked open the face paints for his first ever effort:

And he didn't do too bad a job to be fair to him:

Mum had sorted me out a lovely tail and furry ears to complete the look:

We had a great time at the party....
.....while we went to the town shops, again buggyless. Had a nice browse and topped up my wardrobe a little bit.
Monday was highly exciting, the boiler man was coming back again!
I missed him last time so I was eager to see what was going on too. The first thing I asked him was whether there was going to be an explosion or not. He liked that line of question I think. I helped him carry some of his stuff upstairs and asked him question after question until Dad marched me back downstairs so he could get on with his work...killjoy. I bet he'd much rather have spoken to me!

So we'll be getting right up to date eventually, but first lets go back to my birthday, i'm now 6!
Mum and Dad really came up with the goods this year with a trampoline...a rather large trampoline at that. I loved it, really loved it and have been for a bounce every day since i've had it. I must of course thank Andy and Uncle Alan for their help building the thing on monday night, in the dark and indeed cold. Top work chaps, you're welcome to come round for a bounce anytime you like. Then of course there was my party, I was sooooo excited about this it was frankly ridiculous. Weeks of meticulous planning had been done to make sure the event ran like clockwork (yeah right). Nine of my friends arrived and it was all on the trampoline...TOGETHER:

Amazingly no one got hurt which was a relief for Auntie Christine who was on duty while Mum and Dad 'busied' themselves indoors.
Speaking of indoors we soon had the Prodigy blaring out:

Before we settled down for a few traditional party games including pass the parcel (with a small packet of sweets inbetween each layer of paper to keep everyone happy):

We also had pin the spider on the web which I thought i'd won easily until Alastair beat me:

Then of course it was food time, I had put my order in with the caterers for sauasage rolls, Cheese, Ham and Marmite sarnies, cocktail sausages, beef monster much and cheesey balls:

Best of all though was the party poppers. Most of my friends had never seen such things before and didn't even know how to let them off. Once they worked it out though they loved them.
Then of course there was a caterpillar cake with 6 (yes six) candles:

WhichAlastair helped me to blow out:

It was such a great party, I can't wait until next year, i've started planning already........
Thanks as well to Auntie Christine for coming along and being such a good sport (hope you enjoyed your go on the trampoline once everyone had gone home).
We also saw Uncle Den, Auntie Gail and then Uncle Slim, all bearing gifts of course, thanks very much!
So the next day and we spent the day with our Aunties Christine and Trish (as wel as Uncle Ian of course). We went to the park, we went to pizza hut, we did some drawing we watched some telly and generally had a lovely time. Except for my rather fragrant bottom...ahem.
It was cut short by swimming lessons for me though, great chance to show off my prowess to Auntie Christine who decide to tag along with us.
Thursday was off to Dragon club for me.....
.........and Nursery for me until Dad came to get us. He knows how to keep us kids entertained and offered us a trip to the Supermarket.
I did manage to get him to take us to Sainsbury's instead though. I also got him to shelve any plans of a dull old tea by requesting a barbecue. He'd never decline that suggestion no matter what!
We had a visit from Grandad and Anne in the aftenoon, thanks for my presents.
And thanks for my singing Princess book and the amount of laughter we had while Mum attempted to sing along.
Then on to Friday then, with the amount of easter eggs and general birthday sweet things left kicking about the house baking club was put on hold for a week so it was a good job I got my fix at Dragon club. We baked bread, it was deeeeeelicious too. Dad said it was the nicest bread roll he'd ever eaten (I let him have half, and made hime share it with Ellis).
Then it was the weekend. We went to see (great) Grandma at her new home. It had a lovely sunny garden so we went out onto the patio with her to soak up some spring sunshine and entertain all the other old dears...they lapped it up!
Then it was onto see the Law's, as usual we had a great time in the garden, had a lovely barbecue and then all ended up snuggled up on the sofa watching Britains got Talent.
As if one party wasn't enough we then headed off to the Halfords, poor old Max had a poorly tummy and Ned soon crashed out leaving me and Leo to it, we have a great time together these days.
So after the previous late night we had a lazy morning on sunday before we headed out for lunch to the Szechuan, I was a rather worried about it all week as I don't think I like Chinese food. Anyway, they had chips and prawn crackers so I was happy, I even tried the seaweed (but didn't like it).
It was for Mum's birthday really, so Laura, James, Trish, Mark, Tracey, Slim, Auntie Christine and Ian were all in attendance. They all ate loads, I decided to have a tizzy instead.........
I soon calmed down when I realised bowling was on the agenda though, I love bowling so much:

I'm even enthusiastic when I knock just a few over:

Alan and Hayley came round later in the afternoon, apparently for my birthday present but we all know they really wanted a go on the trampoline!

So after a hectic weekend we were glad when it was Monday, there was still no school so Mum was off with us in the morning, lots of cuddles then, just the job.

And a trip to the park, can't be bad!

And then it was back to scool day today, I was sort of pleased to be back and to catch up with everyone. Apparently Dylan had been on and on to his mum about how good my party was all holidays.

But most exciting of all was the boiler man coming in the afternoon, he intrigued me and i had to keep making regular visits to the kitchen to see what he was up to....

Just for me to add a really big thank you for everyone who came to see me, gave me a card or indeed a present for my birhtday, I really had a lovely time.

Better late than never eh? A video of our holiday in Wales: