With all the excitement of bike day at Dragon club last week I decided I wanted to get in on the act. I decided I was going to ride to nursery! I got all the way there under my own steam (well, all except the vey last bit which is a bit of steep hill).
I scootered and Mum had no one to push along, i bet she didn't know what to do with herself.
We had a man at Dragon club that had danced in Bollywood films, he taught us some moves and we loved joining in. He said I was particularly good as well.
We had our second weekly trip to the shops for food, Dad says he isn't taking us again.....
Thursday was Superhero day at Dragon Club. I wore my power ranger suit, with a Batman t-shirt underneath and just to make sure I also had Spiderman pants. We had a milkshake making session, I found it all rather odd though as there was no chocolate? I had to make do with strawberry.
And whilke Ned was having all this fun I was feeling all poorly all morning. I had a good sleep in the afternoon though and felt much better, just as well I did as it was Speedway in the evening:

An Elite League match between the Swindon Robins and the Peterborough Panthers. I got Swindon and Sweden confused though and kept calling them Sweden instead. We had an early victory and Auntie Trish came with us in the car rather than going with the boys, this wasn't just because she had the sweets, we knew she had all the info on the Speedway so we knew what to expect when we got there.

It was madness, and thankfully not as noisy I thought it would be. We loved watching them roar round the track.
Owen and I had a look over the pit wall to see what was going on behind the scenes. Lots of engine revving but sadly no fighting between rival riders. Owen once again came through with the goods by bringing along an air horn, a wonderful device capable of producing even more noise than me. Trouble was I could only blast it when Swindon won a race, so not very often at all really.
After a couple of spectacular crashes the evening drew on a bit and poor old Mum stared to feel the cold. I lent her my snuggling blanket to keep her warm (notice i'm still in a t-shirt):

We had an Australian theme at nursery on Friday, I made a lovely boomerang that I was very proud of and learned all about kangaroo's and koala's.
And we had music day at Dragon club, we had to make up bands among ourselves. I named our band The Supersonic Band and we won the award for best stage prescence! In other words, i'm a big show off. We also had a man that bought all manner of creepy crawlies in for us to see, he had a giant millipede and a real life tarantula!
Dad dragged us off to a BMX race on saturday in Gosport. It was really rather busy but we managed to have a picnic watching some good fast racing. I really fancy a go.....so watch this space!
I was way more interested in the bouncy castle, the playground and the ice cream man:

I got a great big pillow of candy floss instead.
Then after all that we rode on the roundabout in the adjoining park, with several hundred lunatic BMX racer kids....who made it go really fast....surprised we weren't sick.
We came home and watched rubbishy saturday night gameshows...perfect.
Sunday we went to visit Grandma:

We took her for a stroll around the grounds, we saw some lovely butterflies and bumble bees:

And we had a game of football with my pop up goal. We were joind by John, an 88 year old man, he was much better at football than Dad so he was sent of to the subs bench. We drew quite a crowd of 'inmates' which was okay until he took a tumble. He was soon back up on his feet though and placing some lovely shots in the back of the net:

We got home in time for lunch and then I slumped infront of the telly for the afternoon, well the football was tiring.

I decided to 'help' mum clean the inside of the car and 'help' dad do some gardening. One thing that did bring us all together was the visit from the ice cream man.

It did indeed, it was probably the most exciting thing to happen all week!

Auntie Christine and Uncle Ian came round for a visit as well, they bought us some lovely tops and socks.

Yes, the t-shirt's that Uncle Ian got me (yes, Uncle Ian, not Auntie Christine) one had a picture of a cat on it and the other one had a rabbit and they are both wearing crowns made out of sparkly jewels!!!!! I love them to pieces and want to wear them all the time.

So after all my brilliant cycling to nursery last week I let myself down badly on Monday. I got as far as the little shop down the road and decided I was too tired. Mum was running too late to go back and get the buggy so she had to carry me on her shoulders pretty much all the way there while Ned rode my little tiny bike...ooops.

Yes Ellis, oops indeed, mum says you'll never be allowed to ride your bike to nursery again (give it a month or so and I reckon you'll be okay though).

Good old Dad though, he won't let anything so trivial put him off his masterplan. Mondays masterplan was to go to Wargrave BMX track.....i'm glad he did. It was the best track ever and we loved it.

Even I did after a little bit of Calpol and a cuddle.

Another boy of my age turned up and I raced him, then three teenagers turned up and I beat them too! I was very proud of myself and rode lap after lap after lap. Dad reckoned he'd never seen my face so red.

I think thats just about all for this week, see you in two as it's holiday time again...............

School holiday still....yay! Dragon Club is still great fun, even though Hugo has gone off to France.
And i'm still enjoying Ned and his friends visiting me at the fence, I even got a kiss from him today!
Wednesday was different though, we had Auntie Christine and Auntie Trish round to look after us instead. They really must come again, laden as they were with wondeful gifts and plenty of laughs.

They did my dalmatian face paint and took me to Melissa's party (Josh and I were the only boys there!).
And while Ned was out we went to the park so I could show off my climbing skills and show them I was okay on the aerial runway too. I must have made it look easy as they both had a go!
Then when we got home it was serious girls stuff, nail polish, foundation and lip gloss. I looked beautiful of course.
We met Mum for dinner on Thursday lunch time, so obviously it was a trip to McDonalds. I love sitting on the relaly high stools.
I think they're probably a bit too high for me to be truly at ease but I struggle on.
After that it was time to go and get new school shoes, apparently I have a really wide foot, an 'H' fitting by all accounts (whatever that means).
We've had plenty to chat about in the mornings, what with me going to nursery with Ellis before Dragon Club and I think Mum has enjoyed my company. I've also got to meet Ellis' friend Ron from the park too. One morning Mum and Ellis nearly got run over when we crossed the road, it lead me to thinking about if they'd been squashed flat. I told Mum it would be okay as Dad and I would just live together and ROCK!
The big news this week is that I was finally allowed to go out on the bikes after tea with Dad, Owen and Andy, I was rather pleased:

The whole thing kicked off in spectacular style when we picked Owen up, he got in the back of the car with me and immeadiatley cracked open the sweets. I knew it was going to be a good night. I checked out some lines to make sure I knew what I was in for:

Before doing twice as many runs as everyone else:

And having a generally brilliant time dazzling everyone with my two wheeled skills:

I didn't even fall off once. I think everyone was pretty impressed actually. Not as impressed as I was when we went to pub for coke with a straw, a flirt with the barmaid and some crisps before retiring to the terrace for a spot of stargazing. We crept in at nearly 11 o'clock, everyone else was already in bed!

Yeah, good for you Ned, I wasn't allowed to come, something to do with still having stabilisers on my bike or something. I turned on the waterworks big time before I went to watch Seaside Rescue with Mum.

We went to the woods with the Halford boys on friday afternoon, we collected sticks, climbed trees, threw stones into the lake, all the usual stuff.

And I was of course terrorised by every single dog that walked past.....

We got back to their house just in time for the ice cream man to come, what a result!

Saturday was Kin's 40th birthday, he was having a barbecue at his house. As well as all the usual brilliant stuff over there, they had a bouncy castle/pillow fight on a pole contraption too.

I had a couple of tussles but came off second best due to my overly aggressive style:

It wasn't long before Dad and Nick had got me and Abi squared up for a match:

The crowd didn't think much of it due to a distinct lack of action. We cleared off to the playhouse instead pretty sharpish:

We helped wind proceedings down by playing some chilled out piano later in the evening.

Happy birthday Kin, hope it wasn't too traumatic a day for you!

Very quiet day on Sunday indeed.

We watched the film Up, well, I fell asleep and woke up 2 hours after it had finished with a start and wanted to know where the film had gone!

Monday afternoon Dad took us shopping...to Toys R Us, I was owed a present.....

...and I have got loads of money saved up in my money box.

I went for a Disney princess hair styling set with a drier, straighteners, curling tongs, curlers and a brush. All pink. All in a lovley bag. Very me.

And I got a Bakugan starter set. Exciting stuff.

After that we went to the camping shop to show Ned all the tents they had up indoors.

It was fantastic, there were about 40 tents to hide from Dad! He couldn't keep track of us both as we darted in and out from tent to tent...he he!

Then today was Bike day at Dragon club, we had a course laid out, did some fast races and some slow races and then gave our bikes a wash.

As soon as we got there to pick him up I was trying to ride his bike away. Trouble is, it only has two wheels and is a little on the large side.........

Sports day went ahead last Wednesday, rain didn't stop play thats for sure, it was a hot afternoon. We had to shelter under our gazebo's between races (i'm on the left in the blue):

My first race was the egg and spoon. As you can see, Maya helped her egg to stay on with a little help from her thumb:

I wish i'd thought of that! I was doing okay, until my shoe came off half way down the track. Maybe demanding a size 12 wasn't such a good idea after all?

I quite liked watching the racing, but I prefered playing on the playground with the other litle sisters a lot more.

I had a second race, the obstacle race. Once again a lost shoe cost me dear. Oh well, I enjoyed it all the same and gave everyone a laugh:

We were all very proud of our teacher Miss Stephenson when she broke ranks during the teachers 'walking' race and sprinted for the finish line:

I got my turn in the toddlers race, and of course i was dynamite, mum couldn't keep up:

I won, well, I sort of won. I mean, I would have won if i'd realised where the finish line was. There was a photo finish but it's inconclusive.

There was of course a parents race too, there were so many willing Mum's they had to have two heats:

Mum didn't win, but she certainly didn't let herself down either.

Dad fared less well in his race, he suffered the same cruel fate as me and lost a shoe half way up the track......

I did tell them both that I was very proud of them for having a go.
Seeing as Mum was off work for the afternoon, I got to finish school a bit early and it was nice and hot we had to go to the outdoor pool after sports day was done and dusted. Truth be told i'd rather have watched Scooby Doo....

....I wouldn't, I loved the pool last time and couldn't wait to go with Mum and Ned. I really enjoyed it, jumping, floating, splashing and wrapping myself up in a towel and having a snooze on a bench.

To tell the truth I rather enjoyed it too in the end, but don't tell anyone. Especially Dad launching me up into the air for a big splashdown.
And then it was last day of term, last day of the school year. No more year 1 for me.

Here's all the assorted art work I produced over the year:

I was pretty pleased with my output.

Onto weekend business then, Saturday was big day. First off we had a barbecue at Snelsmore with Hugo, Matice and Luca as well as Alastair and Emily:

We played rounders (I was rather good at bowling), we played football, we climbed trees and we took it in turns to jump my bike over the ramp as well as indulging in a little game of chicken:

While the bigger boys were doing that, us littler ones were leaping form the picnic table:

We ate sausages of course, and crisps.

But best of all we ate the chocolate brownies Dad and I had made on friday afternoon. They were truly delicious and I took great pleasure in telling everyone I had made them when they were saying how lovely they were!

As if that wasn't enough excitement for one day it was Abi's birthday party at teh pub in the evening.

Of course, when it was cake time, we were close at hand:

Sunday we went to see Grandad and Anne. We had a lovely dinner out in the garden and then I helped Grandad water pretty much every single plant in his garden whether it needed it or not with a great big watering can.

I sat and read my cool new books they had got me, one about all the things that live under the sea and another about how the world is made up.

We went for a walk in the afternoon to see some chickens in the field, they were quite difficult to count as they kept moving around, but we think there was 8.

Grandad and Mum were showing us all sorts of things in the hedgerows, blackcurrants, hazel nuts and rabbit burrows:

So first day of the school holidays proper on Monday, I went to nursery as usual.

And I went to Dragon club which is right next door. Which means I got to wave at Ellis through the fence! Hugo is going this week to, so that's been brilliant. We baked biscuits (ate them all before home time), I won the 'Super Dragon' award for a poster I made (which means a lollypop prize and loads of other stuff. All the ladies couldn't believe how big and grown up I am since last year.

In the afternoon, we went to the BMX Track, my first time on my own bike:

I was raring to go, and after Dad helped me down for the first time I was well away:

I loved going really fast over the bumps.

I hadn't been for a while either and was soon back up to speed:

But no matter how fancy and shiny my new helmet is, it's certainly very hot, making it thirsty work:

We came home and watched a cartoon film about a horse called Spirit, I loved it.

And I fell asleep.

Today was Dragon club again, it was space day today, so I made a smart UFO, yet more biscuits and had my face painted as a skeleton!

We had Stretch and Grow at nursery which is absoloutley my favourite. Ned and Hugo wiggled their bums at us through the fence again and I showed off my brilliant new picture i've drawn for my peg.

Dad picked me up first and we went to Waitrose for cake supplies. We also had a visit to the fish counter and the lady behind the counter spent ages showing me all the fish and their markings and their fins and everything. I lapped it all up. They even had dressed crabs on the counter. i love crab. I've never had it, but I love it anyway.

In the afternoon we finally got to go to the park we sometimes see when we're in the car along the A4 towards Hungerford. We had a good old explore and decided we really rather liked it, especially the funny exercise machines.

Todays film was Alvin and the chipmunks!

I still love it.

And I fell asleep. Again.

Sports day got cancelled because of rain...boo hoo. I was well fired up for it as well. It's been re-scheduled for the following Wednesday so fingers crossed.
Auntie Christine and Uncle Ian came round for a visit in the afternoon, I showed them my lovely new princess dress.
And they gave me a wind up torch/radio and a special chocolate pudding to take camping at the weekend. Music and chocolate cake, thats all I need for weekend away.
Camping then, how exciting, we didn't have to wait long to use our new tent and set off for Charmouth on friday night after Mum had finished work. It took a couple of hours to get there and find Yanna and Fen had set there tent up already.
We pitched next door and soon made ourselves at home:

We had a great big bedroom for all four of us, with Andy in the guest wing at the other end of the tent.

Dad forgot to pack any story books so it was up to him and Mum to make us a couple up, they did an okay job actually:

We were up bright and early of course, Mum and Dad were delighted about that.

But we were excited and happy to be so near the park at the campsite.

This is as close as the grown ups were allowed to get (unless one of us was stuck up a climbing frame):

One of the main reasons for the getaway was to go fossil hunting at Charmouth beach. We combed the beach and the cliffs for potential fossils. Kin was nominated fossil expert, much to his suprise:

Even though Melissa would have been quite happy to examine every single stone on the beach. Mum found one, Dad found one (which promptly got lost from our bucket and Yanna found one:

As good as they were, they weren't as good as the ones the man had for sale in the shop, so we invested a little pocket money for some quality samples:

I very bravely fed the dinosaur in the museum:

Proceedings were rounded off with an ice cream of course:

After that it was back to the campsite for swiming.

It was great fun and total carnage with us all bombing and jumping and throwing our masive beach ball all around the place, sitting on the grown ups shoulders (until we got told off) and then some more bombing and jumping for good measure.

After all that, I was a little worn out and took forty winks in the tent:

They thought I was in for the night and got me dressed for bed..the fools! I was soon up and playing frisbee:

While Fen and I had a kick about and then went for a roll down the hill:

It was of course a bbq for tea, finished off with Auntie Christines Spaceman pouch chocolate cake and sauce:

Which we all thought looked rather like a poo. But it tasted okay!

It was then time to turn in for our second night in the tent. We had a much better sleep and had quite a lie in the next day to catch up on a little sleep.

But we were soon headed for Lyme Regis for a mooch about.

We took a walk along The Cobb, it was pretty cool, a big old wall out into the sea.

The waves crashed against it and gave us a good old soaking at one point too!

We sat and contemplated the view of course:

Before having fish and chips sat on the sea wall, which was of course followed by an ice cream. (note to self, do not ask for ice cream just because it is pink when I don't really like strawberry flavour ice cream):

I did a few shots for my modelling portfolio:

Before we got Mum to carry us both back to the car for a snooze on the way home.

None of us wanted to go home of course, we'd got quite used to sleeping in the tent, living the outdoor life and eating like kings!

But it was back to school, nursery and work of course.

Hmmm, Eva, my previous best friend lulled my ear and it hurt. I don't like her anymore. I do however like Ella though. She's my new best friend, she never pulls my ears.

And I got my first ever written school report. I won't go into too much detail here but it made me sound really rather good. Phew, thats a relief.