My good run of trampolining club came to an abrupt end last wednesday when we got to Northcroft to be told that all sessions were finished until after christmas. We thought better of standing about arguing about it like some of the other Mums and went for a play in the park instead. We saw a cheeky little squirrel as well, running along the fence and then off up a tree, I loved that.
I came home from school and got back on with my christmas card writing. I'm upto 19 cards from my friends now!
When we went to pick Mum up from work we didn't go straight home, we went to the market place instead...to have a ride with Santa in his horsedrawn sleigh:



We had a lovely time riding around the market place and waving to everyone:

Santa told me I need to tidy my room too, it's almost like he can see all my mess somehow?

I had an unexpected treat on Thursday morning when Mum had a morning off to look after a leaky radiator. We had to wait for the plumber man to come and take it off without letting hundreds of litres of water slosh everywhere. I was really rather interested in what he was doing.
While all this was going on, I was off on my school trip to the panto in Basingstoke at the Anvil. We had a double decker coach to take us and I got to sit on the top deck so things got off to a good start. When we got there my teacher asked me if i'd like to go up on the stage, so of course I said yes! I wanted Teagan to come up with me but she didn't fancy it for some reason? So anyway, during the show I got to go up on stage with none other than PC Plum (out of Balamory) for a few questions (Name, School, what i wanted for christmas) and to do a bit of a dance routine for a song. I loved it of course, especially all my mates giving me the thumbs up sign all the way through. I got some really cool colouring books and a puzzle book with plenty of word searches in it....result. There was also of course the bad fairy in the story, Abi Titmuss apparently...I liked her. The teachers couldn't wait to tell Dad what i'd been up to when he came to pick me up.

We're well and truly in the Christmas spirit at School, we had our Christmas Bazaar on friday afternoon.

We always love the Christmas Bazaar. The first thing we got involved in was like a treasure hunt where you had to find 10 christmassy stamps around the school grounds. Once you had collected them all you could claim your prize of some sweets!

Yeah, we loved this, I don't think there was a prize on offer for fastest completion but the speed I was running around the grounds I would certainly have been in with a shout if there was.

There was plenty of other games and things to get involved in too of course, I just liked wandering about the school though to be honest, getting a feel for it for when I start myself next year.

After we'd had our fill of home made cakes and sweets, bought back the fudge that I made in class last week and spent all of Dad's money we rounded off the afternoon with a trip to see Santa in his grotto. We were almost the last ones of the day to go in so we were hoping he hadn't promised all the good toys to everyone else.

Ned wanted to go in alone so I went with dad, which was just as well as I made him do pretty much all the talking.

Auntie Christine was coming round to babysit in the evening, obviously that was going to be cool.

Yes, she arrived bearing christmas goodies of course, we made some cards and played Christmas snap.

We were so enthused with the christmas snap that we had a game in bed with Mum and Dad on Saturday morning.

Before we got headed for town to see the ice sulptors.

They had a massive great big lump of slippery, shiney cold ice and they were chipping away at it trying to turn it into the shape of a man (Jack O'Newbury by all accounts). I was intrigued by the whole thing really, like how they were doing it, how they got the ice into town in the forst place and who had a big enough freezer to make it at all?

Rather brilliantly we were allowed to help and have a go for ourselves:

I really got a taste for it:

And could quite happily spent the entire afternoon chipping away, especially once i'd managed to convince the man to lend me his lovely warm waterproof gloves to wear as well:

We didn't get to see the finished article as it was taking a while, but i'm sure it will be in the paper on Thursday.

We had more pressing issues to attend to anyway, like our christmas tree.

Yeah, we went round to Alan and Hayleys as they we were going over to Yattendon together. Alan was playing a game called Call of Duty Black Ops on his PS3....it was awesome. Guns, explosions, blood and guts and bad language. I'd never seen anything quite like it on my DS or the Wii thats for sure!

Anyway, the main event was of course tree shopping, as usual me, Ned and Mum settled on pretty much the first one we saw while Dad spent ages rooting about through hundreds of trees trying to find the perfect specimen:

We got it in the bag of the car with no problems at all, unlike Alan and Hayley who had to shoe horn their monster tree into the back of the Gayo....

We got out and about for a little while on Sunday with a visit to the Discovery Centre in Thatcham. The playground was good as always but the lake was really smart....

......as a lot of it was frozen! We fed some ducks with some bread donated from someone else's mum (we were not organised enough to bring our own):

Quack!

We marvelled at the birds standing on the ice out towards the middle of the lake:

Mum took an arty picture with the sun shining off the water:

And we headed off for a lap, which turned out to be well worth the trip as the ice on the opposite side was really thick. We had great fun throwing twigs and stones onto it, watching them slide off across the ice and make funny echoey noises if thrown really hard.

When we got home we had a lovely snooze before Dad finally gave in and we went and out up the outside lights.

Yes, we were most helpfull, even if we did leave all the doors open and nearly froze Mum to death.

Today was the first day of our school nativity play, Dad recieved two glowing reports of my performance from two of the Mum's in the playground at home time (one of which was a music teacher and everything). I can't wait to do it all again tomorrow.

But even more exciting than that was our christmas disco after school. I had my snazzy new shirt to wear and I was raring to go. We had cool music (Black Eyed Peas, Cheryl Cole of course), sweets, crisps, free drinks and glowing bracelets. What more could we want?

A swift video to finish with this week I think:

Still managing to go trampolining, there were four of us this week so I got to share my trampoline with another little girl which was lovely. As usual I was used as the class instructor and pulled off my best moves (seat drop, tuck jump, scissors, star jumps and twists. As a result we only got quarter of an hour in Bumpers afterwards. It turned out to be plenty of time to get Dad up to the top of the climbing frame before I cleared off into the distance leaving him to make the twisty and difficult descent alone.

I took my lovely Nativity book that Nanny bought me years ago to school on Wednesday so we could read it in class. It's a really nice pop up one and everyone else seemed to like it too.

It wasn't all brilliant at school though, I sucked the end of a permanent marker pen for a dare and then my 'friend' Ellen told me that I would die in three days time. I was pretty worried about this by bedtime but Mum managed to convince me i'd be okay (i've managed to last a week so far so I think i'm over the worst of it anyway).

I bought my delicious gingerbread man home from nursery on Thursday. I told Dad that there was a bit for me, him, Mum and Ned but by the time we pulled into Tesco carpark i'd sort of eaten the whole thing myself. Well, he was delicious and beautifully decorated it seemd a shame not to wolf down the lot.

Of course it had snowed a little bit too, not enough to get us truly excited like last winter but there was enough to slide around on and have a snowball fight after school with the Halfords.

I had a very uncharacteristic wobble at breakfast club on Friday morning and got proper worked up and didn't want to go. It made things a little bit hard for mum I think but she needn't have worried as I got over it really quickly and it was all forgotten about until Dad asked me if everything was okay, and then mum got home from work and asked me all over again.

We took the cat to the vet for her jabs in the afternoon, she did a poo in her box just as we set off in the car...it smelled really bad. Poor cat, she mustn't have liked Dad's driving very much that's all I can say. I was really good at looking after the cat while she was on the vets table and kept stroking her while she was being prodded and poked at. I also answered all the vets questions about how the cat was doing and what she was eating and drinking so I was very helpful.

When I got home from school I got the choice of baking or christmas card making....Card making it was! (Well, Dad and Ellis had only just been shopping and we were well stocked on sweet goods). We got all the shiny card and glue and sticky shapes out, lovely!

Yeah, I really enjoyed it too, Ned really is an inspiration for my art work.

I was sooooo tired that I fell asleep in the car on the way to collect Mum from work and i was so tired that I slept through tea and then got carried to bed where I slept right through to the morning.

While Ned was in bed snoozing I got the Mum, Dad and the Wii to myself. We played Wii party, we had a controller each and I won! Perfect.

Saturday was JJ's day, we hadn't been for aaaaaaaaages so we were well up for it.

Here's a picture we haven't had for a while, me on the blower:



My hair still looks cool on this.

We had a great time, I tool Ellis on a guided tour of the big stuff now she's big enough to climb properly.

Yes, I love my new found scrambling ability honed in Bumpers on Wednesday afternoons. I'm not quite as quick as Ned though and i'm quite happy to explore at my own pace.

I made a friend, Evan, we went off exploring and dropping down from the top of the big slide.

We even got to have lunch there, it must be winter desperation kicking in.

We called into Sainsbury's on the way back to pick up some stuff for sunday on the way back.

And I got to buy myself a rather smashing christmas fairy outfit that i'll no doubt be modelling at every oppurtunity over the festive period!

We made a mk2 chocolate cake when we got home, this time with Mum's input over the chocolate choice for the icing, she certainly knows her chocolate.

The chocolate cake? it was for Grandads birthday lunch on Sunday, well we needed something to stick a candle in didn't we?

Grandad, Anne, Alan and Hayley came round. It was lovley to see them all as we haven't seen them for a while. We had a pretty good dinner actually.

Yeah, we even had some special pre-christmas pigs in blankets.

Shame I let myself down having a massive strop during Wii party.

School business then, i'm starting to get a few christmas cards from my friends now (even though they've scrapped the school post box this year). So i've started writing my own to give out.

We've also started rehearsals for our christmas show in earnest. As usual i'm coming home full of my new songs and can't wait to get on the stage.

Made a triumphant return to trampolining on Wednesday! I was going highest and had the biggest bag of tricks (even if there was only three of us). A trampoline each meant there was a lot of bouncing to be done, so after half an hours solid boinging we headed off to the Bumpers indoor playground for a bit as well. This was great actually, after i'd made Dad accompany me through it all (at great personal riske to himself in some of the tighter areas) I was quite happy to go it alone right to the very top.
We've started work on the nativity play at school and i'm a narrator again. Not really that happy about that truth be told as I was aiming a little higher. Whats really unfair is that the boy who is playing Joseph doesn't even want to because he doesn't want to be in love with the girl who's playing Mary!
The cold weather has been playing havoc with our after school play time as Dad and Ellis really don't seem keen on standing about and getting freezing cold while I charge around the grounds for some reason. We have a secret base with a secret password at the edge of the field. I told Shimon the password in strict confidence and he went and told everyone! Access denied for him in future and we changed the password straight away too.
We did however have a mighty kick about with a ball I found in the playground.
Yes, Dad and I joined in and everything...until I got too cold and wanted to go home.
And then when we got home Dad managed to tip a whole glass of squash into my Lego tub. Ooops, he was pretty cross about it and spent ages washing all my bricks up so they didn't get sticky. We had no takers for drying up surprisingly?
Our new morning regime is running very smoothly, Ned and I dress ourselves,
And then I load all the he things for the day into the buggy, this all means Mum can have a lovely leisurely morning of course.
Friday night was most exciting, Father Christmas was switching the lights on in town!
Dad route marched us from our 'park and ride' location miles from town which gave us plenty of time to get hyped up for the big event.
We met Mum and headed for Auntie Christines shop.....she had chocolates! How christmassy.
We headed out into the street to await the arrival of the big man, we really were much more excited than we look in this picture:

I waved like mad at him but he didn't see me so I didn't get a wave back.
We followed on to the market place where there was a snow machine covering everyone in snow.
it wasn't real snow though, and on closer inspection it turned out to be bubbles instead!
We got up on Mum and Dad's shoulders to watch Santa do his bit on the stage before going off to see the real life reindeers that he had bought along with him.
Then it was a trip to McDonalds before the long, cold, dark, walk back to the car.
Saturday morning and at long last a trip to the swimming pool.
I took some convincing it has to be said.
I didn't, I was straight in and right on it, I really love the water.
To tell the truth, so do I really.
After lunch I was off to my friend Neve's birthday party, I looked pretty good even if I do say so myself:

I won that doggy balloon by being the best doggy impersonator. I had a lovely time and joined in with all the fun and games.
While the girls were at the party Dad and I went to the sweet shop and played the mini games on Wii party...my perfect afternoon really.
We had a day with Auntie Christine on Sunday while Mum and Dad went out on top secret business.
We don't really care what they were doing though, we had such a cool time.
We baked, we painted, we coloured, we played dominoes, we went the park in Laura's monster truck, we made paper chains...all the lovely pre-christmas stuff.
We had a lovely day thanks!
We even had a writing competition when mum and dad got back to collect us, Uncle Ian apparently writes like an old Man (according to Auntie Christine) and Auntie Christine writes like a baby (according to Uncle Ian).
It snowed on Tuesday! Not much admittedly, but it was enough to get us excited.
We enjoyed our trip to school even more than usual, and we also got have a lift to nursery with Luca...result!
As if that wasn't enough to egt us going we also got the advent calendars and what have you out ready for tomorrow....the countdown is ON!!!!

Had a sneaky lunch with Mum on Wednesday, we went to the Cafe in her shop and I had a rather delicious gingerbread snowman washed down with apple juice. A very pleasant supplement to my lunch at nursery. This was all despite my very muddy coat that I actually had to go out in public wearing after spending a large part of the morning making mud pies.
Tea has been eaten at a hell of a rate lately so we can fit a game of Wii party in before bedtime. I still haven't won a goame yet though and i'm begining to get a little upset about it.
Thursday I had to have another emergency coat wash following a big morning of yet more mud pie making.
It was parents evening for the first time in my new class. This is generally a cool thing as Andy comes round for tea, so not only do we get his company, we get somethig nice to eat. This time we all had to top our very own pizza's. I loved it. While Mum and Dad went off to hear all about me at school we made Andy play Wii party with us.
Where Ned's losing run continued...oops!
Friday was wear some spots for Children in need day at school, my wardrobe doesn't really have much in the way of spotty garments so we had to improvise with some pens:

Mum made a bit of a mistake with the shirt she used though and picked one of my newer ones rather than the older, almost too small one she had intended to use.
Best of all though was my fabulous Wii party victory at long last! I was rather pleased to say the least.
This weeks school project was all about castles so Dad and I built one from Lego:

Well, we built the front wall of one anyway as we soon ran out of 'proper' building bricks. I did set about furnishing the inside of the castle though. We had a fireplace, a banquet table and a throne:

Where the king and his two mean looking guards were positioned:

Saturday and we split into boys and girls teams. Mum and I were going to the theater to see Elmer with Abi and Carol.
While Dad and I went to the cinema to watch Alpha and Omega.
We had a lovely time at the Corn Exchange and lapped up the show, especially the singing and dancing (not to mention the cool Hello Kitty sweets Carol bought along).
Dad and I had our fizzy fanta and a massive bag of Tangfastic's, we were all set. I loved the film almost as much as the sweets too. I also liked waving my hand in front of the projector during the adverts and seeing my massive hand accross the big screen.
We went out to buy me some suitable winter footwear on Sunday morning, a nice pair of cool trendy boots (with Butterflies on them). I love them, really love them and haven't wanted to wear my Peppa Pig trainers since.
When we got home Mum and Dad forced us to go outside for some reason. We walked up the field to the Wash Common park which actually turned out to be quite A good idea I suppose.
When we got home we made a nice big gooey chocolate cake:

It really was very chocolatey indeed.

And then a little more Wii party to finish off the weekend. Are we addicts?

Well it's getting all wintry out there isn't it? I've even worn my coat once or twice.
Because of this, we've been involved in a lot of indoor activities of late so once again we have a distinct lack of pictures to back up our news this week.
We had a trip to the park with Leo on Wednesday afternoon, I think he must have been having a bit of a day of it and sadly I didn't really help matters with my gentle wind ups.
On Thursday we were impossibly excited about a trip to the dentist for our check up. The lure of a sticker eh?
And now I was three I was allowed to have a go in the chair and everything.
Dad got to go first and then it was my turn. I hopped straight up in the chair and opened my mouth so wide the dentist nearly fell in. Dad commented that I hadn't lost any of my teeth yet, even though all my friends are having wobblers all over the place. He said that it wil all happen soon enough and not to worry.
I wasn't quite as brave as Ned and I sat on Dad's lap for the dentist to take a look in my big wide mouth.
Afterwards while we were out at the desk rifling the stickers the nurse came out with a special envelope to put my teeth in for the tooth fairy........
We went from the dentist to see Auntie Christines 'new' shop.
It was super cool, it's got the biggest telly we've ever seen and a lovely comfy sofa for us to sit down on. We spent quite a while marking out plenty of new 'height benchmarks' for us to compare ourselves to.
As we walked back up town to go and pick Mum up from work I decided to pock a fight with the pavement....the pavement won. I bumped my head really hard, and i cried my eyes out. Dad picked me up and soon discovered a truly enormous lump on the side of my head as well as some blood. He had a little panic and called Mum as we were right outside her shop, she got her work first aiders to take a look and they recommended I get the docor to check it out.
While this was going on we got to raid Chris the security man's sweetie stash, nice one Ellis.
So we had an unscheduled trip to the doctors. I got checked out and even he remarked on just what a big lump I had attached to my head.
So Friday then and I got picked up early from nursery to go and have my jabs...at the doctors! What a couple of days i'd had there! Still, the jabs themselves went by without any undue stress or bother. I didn't mind them at all actually and made sure I had a good look at what the nurse was doing. I was pretty proud of my twin plasters afterwards as well and didn't want to take them off.
In the afternoon Dad and I hit Sainsbury's to get some supplies for saturday evenings entertainment. This of course meant the cool escalator and a lot of fun and games going through all the fruit and veg.
We had a rather ill advised trip to Hungerford Skatepark on saturday morning, it was a little bit wet form the overnight rain and the metal ramps were pretty slippery. We fell off. A lot.
The park next door was great fun though so it wasn't a complete disaster.
We went on to Marlborough afterwards and had a look around the shops, there were some cool toy shops to look around and everything was starting to get a bit Christmassy.
So we went to get our advent calendars, exciting or what?
We had an afternoon session on Wii Party before heading off to Kimi and Marny's place so the grown ups could eat or something?
We had a lovely time ransacking their toys of course.
And once all the young un's had fallen asleep we watched the boxing. Although everyone seemd to think it was rubbish I quite enjoyed it really.
In view of the late night on Saturday, Sunday morning was a very lazy affair indeed. Infact no one was dressed much before lunchtime.
We watched the Grand Prix that had an 'Awesome' crash at the start but then became a bit boring.
Then it was back on the Wii party...have we mentioned that we love Wii party before?
We love Wii Party!
And this weeks bedtime literature? Shakespeare no less. Auntie Christine gave me a a box set of his books (in condensed form I should add). I love the stories, full of violence, poisoning, deceit and love! Right up my street they are.

First of all this week was nursery parents evening, a chance fro Mum and Dad to find out what i'm really like! Very good by all accounts, if a little bit bossy at times. They got to have a good old read of my development folder which also had some really good photo's in it.
Yes, they were ven a few of me tucked away in there. It was cool going back to nursery, but everything seemed so small.
So once the heat was off, I had a great time at nursery the next day painting my hair...or highlights as i'd prefer to call them.
I rode my two wheel scooter almost all the way to nursery on Friday...scoot, scoot, scoot!
Another week, another celebration. There's plenty of them this time of year and this time it was Bonfire Night.
We've been learning all bout it at nursery, I made the Guy for our big bonfire picture on the wall.
And we've been learning all about it at school of course as well as doing plenty of fireworks pictures. The highlight though was the caretaker, Mr. Jones making a real bonfire on the field that we got to stand around.
Unfortunatley though Mum and Dad were going out on Friday night so we didn't go and see any fireworks.....
...........the upside was that Auntie Christine came round to look after us. I really enjoyed showing her my nursery log and she was really thrilled that watching the sound of music with her had made it into one of my weekend observations!
We headed for the beach on saturday, well it had been quite a while. We took Owen along for the ride too.
Dad took the camping stove and we had fresh cooked bacon butties on the pebbley beach:

The sea air made them taste even better than at home.
I don't like bacon sandwiches, so I had my usual...cheese sandwich instead.
We even had a flask of hot chocolate to drink, but the sun was out and it really wasn't cold enough for us to get the full benefit.
We did a bit of shopping but sadly, being winter, the ice cream kiosk was closed.
Owen devised a 'throw the stone into a hole he'd dug down below on the beach' game.
I let him and Dad trade wins until the final game where I showed them how it was really done and cleaned up:

Auntie Christine called us on the way home, desperate for someone to go to the fireworks at the racecourse with.....we were asleep at the time so couldn't give her a proper answer.
So we had to just go and call for her and hope she hadn't got a better offer.
She hadn't, so we walked down to the racecourse with her, sparklers in hand.
We also met up with Alan and Hayley when we got there which was good, uncle Alan is so much louder than even the loudest foreworks so we weren't frightened of any of them this year.
Which is definatley a first. We loved them this year, even if I did take to my buggy for a blanket snuggle towards the end of the display.
We went into town on Sunday to buy presents for our childrens charity shoe boxes that they are organising at nursery. We spent ages picking and choosing what we thought they might like.
It raised a few questions qith me though....like how come Father Christmas doesn't visit the poor children as well? Never mind the difficult questions anyway,m the highlight of the trip was in actual fact....
Me.....
Bouncing on a space hopper.........
Wearing a big pair of wobbly...........
pretend...........
Boobies!!!
We went home, had a bit of a snooze and then played some more Wii party......brilliant.
Nothing to report from the start of the new week so far. Oh, except Mum gave me a kiss goodbye when she dropped me off at school this morning...didn't go much on that.
Dad and I went to meet Mum at lunchtime today for a sneaky trip the Pasty shop. Don't tell Ned for goodness sake..........

So we're still on half term.
Mum had the delight of doing the weekly shop with both of us on Wednesday morning.
Things got a little...umm....fraught.
After all that excitement we decided a quiet afternoon was in order. Once Dad got home we settled down to watch Kung Fu Panda.
Which we all loved.
We went for a walk around the field afterwards. I took my binoculars and magnifying glass so we could examine the wildlife.
But we got more than we bargained for with a very enthusiastic dog who quite frankly terrorised the pair of us.
Thursday was Dad's birthday and we rang him at work to sing happy birthday.
We couldn't wait for him to come home and have his presents and the cards we had made him.
And even better than that, Pizza Hut!
We came home and gave him his special 'surprise' birthday cake (that he knew all about because of Ellis) and of course we didn't like it. We never like birthday cake, we always think we do but it turns out we really don't.
Everyone had a day off on Friday so we had an outing to the Alice in Wonderland park in Bournemouth.
Last time we came here Ellis was only just born so didn't go on any rides.
I did this time though:

We climbed through crocodiles mouths:

I screamed for speed:

We drove funny orange caterpillar:

I climbed as high as i'd ever climbed before:

And most exciting of all we rode ponies:

Yes we did:

I went on my first pirate ship ride, I sort of liked it but it made my tummy feel a bit woozy.

And there was a great big indoor playgorund which was really good except for the blue bumpy slide in the corner. It was so fast that you jumped the last bump and landed either on your bum from a great height...........

...........or on the back of your head!

The end result was the same for both methods though...tears!

Once we got home it was time to get ready for trick or treat:

The usual gang were here from the West country and we were off out for treats (we didn't actually have any tricks to speak of).

We visited John and Sarah's ran and Grandad first of all, I must admit I was a little disappointed that this didn't involve a trip to the caravan in Cornwall.

Then it was on to Auntie Christines for a quick blast of the sound of music,

Then on to Alan and Hayley's:

Before our final call of the night at Owen and Hannah's.

We had a tremendous haul again, thanks everyone!

And apologies to anyone who had sat in the dark for ages waiting for us to arrive....our schedule went out of the window very early on.

We had to have a lazy morning to get over our trick or treating on Saturday. We were finally forced out of the house by mum and dad to go for a walk around Snelsmore in the afternoon.

It was great actually, we put our wellies on and waded through a lovely sticky, muddy bog!
We also had to cross a stream, which Mum very nearly fell in....that certainly made us laugh.

But not as much as if she had fallen in it properly.

When we got home we played Wii Party (that Dad had for his birthday). It's really good fun, especially the game where you have to play hide and seek with the Wii-remotes.

We went to Grandad and Anne's for lunch on sunday.

We span in the chair of course.

I cuddled their cat...a lot!

And we had a trip to the park where Grandad and I had a brilliant game of dodgeball. I was quite bold during the game and wouldn't flinch even if the ball was coming towards my head.

When we got home, seeing as it was proper Halloween mum and I carved our pumpkin....she hated the smell of it's insides though:

I drew the face on and Mum did the sharp knife work:

Monday and we were still off school and nursery.

We had another morning with Mum before we headed for the skatepark with Dad in the afternoon.

I love the skatepark, especially when I get to show the older kids up in front of their mates. We hadn't been to the one in Hungerford before so it was a bit of find really. We had a great time, the locals were really friendly as well.

Even better than the skatepark was the playground right next door though, loads to explore there.

So today was the last day of our holidays, I was going to spend the morning with Hugo.

And I was off to nursery to finally catch up with my friends.

First of all though I accompanied Mum and Ellis to nursery, it was photo day so we got to have a few cheeky shots of Ellis and I together before I went back with Hugo, Matice and his Mum. We had a great morning, went to Victoria park, the library (where Hugo and I were a little noisy and played noughts and crosses instead of reading) before heading back for lunch. Dad came to pick me up early afternoon but we made it pretty clear that we were having such a good time I didn't want to go home. He and Ellis cleared off for a bit while we had our faces painted with camoflauge before meeting up with Dad and Ellis in the park later.

We stayed all afternoon, climbing trees, having pile ups on the slide and riding bikes.

We built an obstacle course at nursery on Wednesday outside in the garden. I had to get the grown ups to help me move some of the bits of apparatus. I'm very strong of course, but not quite strong enough.
When we went to pick Ned up from school and Ben's Mum had seen that mornings harvest festival performance, she said Ned was very good in it!
Hmmm, well I had been practicing for months at home. I also made everyone a personalised notebook at breakfast club. They all seemed very pleased with them. Dad got a special one with lined paper and used it to make his shopping list.
The cat decided that my loving was a little bit too full on again and issued me with a warning scratch. I cried like hell but we were friends again before tea time.
I took my shield to school on Thursday, everyone was very impressed with my effort, Mrs Douglas wanted me to keep it at schol for a bit but I was having none of that and took great pleasure marching out into the playground with it after school.....I had to give it to Dad pretty quick mind you, it's quite large and rather heavy.
I also got commended on my Thursday harvest festival performance by Noah and George's Mum.
Mum came to see the harvest festival show on Friday, she loved it of course. I got stung by stinging nettles playing in the grounds after school, but Alastair fetched me a doc leaf in record time, what a good mate!
We had a team lay in on Saturday morning, before getting up and heading to the races.
We hadn't been for ages, so it was all rather exciting, we loved watching the horses go around the parade ring:

But the racing wasn't nearly as cool as the army being there. I shot a paintball gun:

I had a go with a real sword:

We saw Montgomery's old car from the war and talked to the man that looks after it:

I tried on a pilots helmet:

And we took on the obstacle course:

And I beat Ned everytime (even though he did help me up and through the high bits):

I also beat him at the laser clay pigeon shooting (with a little help from Dad, well the gun was very heavy).

But what was super cool was driving the bomb disposal robot, forget robot wars:

Dad finally got a winner so we spent all his profit on sweets:

We had a trip to the Sainsbury's on Sunday morning for some Halloween stuff, it was far more exciting than it really should have been.......

And then in the afternoon we went up to the Wash Common park on the bikes. I met up with my friends Maxim and Ruby from school.

I reminisced about my old bike, it looks pretty small these days:

I rode it with no stabilisers again for a bit but I really can't see what all the fuss is about and got them put back on again.

Monday then, half term, so Mum was at home with us for the morning. It's lovely, we stay in our pyjama's for ages, play with our toys and eat a long leisurely breakfast:

By the time Dad got home at lunchtime we were ready for a bit of action so demanded that he take us to the BMX track. He obviously didn't take much persuading.

We met up with Kin and Fen as well which was great as Fen and I compared notes on giving our siblings wedgies and had almost as much fun climbing on the railings as we did riding the track.

I rode the track, it's a serious business. My jumps are coming along nicely and I got to race a wide variety of other kids. I also got to talk at them about my various track visits, my bike, the bike I want father christmas to bring me, whether you should ride the track the wrong way round, as well as telling people off for walking accross the track and using micro scoters. All in a friendly way of course!

We got up bright and early today to head for the cinema to see the film Marmaduke. We loved it, I especially liked the doggie blowing off on the bed!

Yeah, it was a good film, i'd wanted to se it for ages too.

We came home on the bus which was really cool, especially as it seemed to be driven by Jenson Button it went so fast.

We spent the afternoon playing games on the Cbeebies website....

.....Ned was helping me to do them, sometimes he's a nice big brother.....

I got a smack on the nose from my friend Eva at nursery last wednesday. It gave me a nose bleed, it was well worth it though as we were arguing over a book. I also enjoyed milking my injury for the rest of the day.
The following day I took a big old tumble on Ned's school climbing frame too, I gave that one a good milking too. It was a shame actually as i'd climbed up really well.
In more academic news, i've been really getting into my phonics lately, i've even learned to write my name:

I managed to find the time to let Ned give me a ride around the house though:

What have I been into this week? Fractions...loving those and am throwing questions and answers around all over the place.
And what am I not loving this week.....? Not having lost any teeth yet like loads of my friends. I haven't even got any wobbly ones for goodness sake.
We went to Legoland on saturday, it's shutting for the winter soon so we thought we should get another trip in.
As usual, Dad and I got the rubbish boat and Mum and Ellis took off into the distance:

I got to give the pirate baddie from the show a high five.
I hid from him, he looked a bit of a meanie!
We rode on the carousel:

And I shared the spinny seat with another couple of children:

I used all the same techniques as Dad does to make sure we spun super fast...the others loved it!
Then I called Mum's bluff and decided I wanted a go on the log flume, I never want a go on the log flume:

It was brilliant and we didn't even get that wet!

Dad took us for a spin on the spiders web ride:

He obvioulsy didn't spin it fast enough as he didn't feel sick when he got off.

The biggest most exciting thing for though was going on the viking river rapids ride as I was finally tall enough. I loved it too, especially when we got soaking wet.

So that was our last trip for the year done and dusted.

Sunny sunday morning cuddle club:

And then in the afternoon it was Joshua's first birthday party, and a very good turnout of us kids and their accompanying grown up's:

We had a lovely time and hope you had a happy birthday young man!

Here I am as my super hero alter ego, Ellis the Zebra:

Well, that brings us up to yesterday, the day we said our final goodbyes to our great Grandma.

Yes thats right, it was her funeral yesterday. There were a few good things about it though, first off we got to ride in a limo with Mum, Dad, Alan and Hayley all in the back.

We also got to listen to some really good stories about her life during the service.

I made sure I kept things lively by responding nice and loud when I thinght the Vicar bloke needed some added atmosphere. He really liked that i think.

Almost as much as he liked Auntie Trish's and Auntie Christines singing during the hymns!

We headed off to the pub afterwards, the ladies there made me a special marmite sandwich which went down well.

We had a game of giant connect four in the garden (thanks Anne)

And a great chase around with Grandad!

So, (Great) Grandma then...not the most agile and a little forgetfull at times perhaps, but she always had a fridge full of chocolate (only ever Dairy Milk!) and a purse full of ice cream money. Best of all though, she had a lovely smiley face whenever she saw us and we took her out to play with us...

and of course, she was always on our side.

Not many kids get to have a great Grandma at all!