The Wednesady before Christmas was another mum/dad split. Uncle Den popped in, to say merry Christmas as they were going away for a few days and settled in to watch the last part of the nativity series that had been on BBC One every night, we loved it.
Thursday, Mum was now off work all day. We went to Eddie Katz in the morning and had a good old play.
Yeah, we hadn't been for a while and we had to show Mum around as she hadn't been before. She was much better value than Dad because she even went down the twisty blue slide with me.
We picked Dad up from work and went straight to Pizza Hut for lunch. We had a short wait but it was well worth it as we got to sit on one of the big cosy round tables.
I ate loads and loads, most of it was actually savoury, what a shocker!
We went to nursery in the afternoon for the Santa visit (re-scheduled due to him feeling poorly when it was our carol concert). It was nice to catch up with my friends I hadn't seen for a few days and we were soon all sat on the rug waiting for him to arrive. He had a present for all of us in his sack and I wasn't at all shy about going to collect mine. I even said a nice big thank you (without being prompted) which made Mum really pleased. The present was a Christmas CD, which I insistted Dad put on as soon as we got back to the car.
We had a drive round looking for outside Christmas lights and decorations, I love doing that.
And with my CD on it was even better...even if I did fall asleep and miss them all.
Friday was of course, Christmas eve....how exciting!
We had a morning with Mum as Dad still had to go to work. We drove her slightly mad I think.
We had a visit from Sue which was cool as we hadn't seen her for a while.
Dad was soon home from work and we headed off out to the pub to see all the gang before Christmas. I headed straight or the games room with Max and Leo.
And I headed for Abi and Joshua who were sat around the table with the grown ups.
We drank fizzy drinks, played dominoes, ate crisps and even tried pork scratchings (yuck) before everybody started drifting off, wishing them all a happy christmas.
Then Alan did a doughnut in the Gayo in the snowy carpark, which was really cool.
We went home and had a luxury hot chocolate.
Topped off with squirty cream and chocolate sprinkles! After that I was ready to go to bed even if it was only 5:30 in the afternoon. I thought that the sooner I went to bed the sooner the morning would come. I wasn't allowed.
Slim and Trace came round to see us, we were pleased to see them of course.
I showed them how far Santa had got on the Norad website and we worked out how long it was going to take him to get to us.
We had a few jobs to attaned to, the Reindeer food had to be sprinkled out on the drive:



I put out a mince pie, a carrot and a drink for Santa.
And I left him my Santa book to read in my bedroom. When I got into bed I just couldn't stop smiling as I was so excited.
Then it was sleep time.................
...............before we woke up to find that he'd been and filled our stockings! (not too early of course, only around 5:30am):
I had a note from Santa, left on my book thanking me vey much for leaving it out for him and how he enjoyed a five minute break to read it on his busy night.

And here I am with my yucky farting slime filled toilet. What six year old wouldn't be happy with such a gift? The rest of my stocking contents were also really cool and it took me no time at all to get the rest unwrapped. Then I had to wait for Ellis to wake up....and wait.......and wait for what seemed like FOREVER!
It wasn't that long Ned, I had to play stocking catch up:

And then it was downstairs for the real action:

There were two proper big presents to unwrap, mine had a Hello Kitty surf board in:

And mine had a BMX in, a real BMX, a few of you may have heard me mention that I wanted one once or twice this year?

I had so many lovely things that I didn't know where to start, I thought i'd start with some make up though:

I tried my bike out for size, Santa got it spot on of course:

Auntie Trish came round to see us, which was really nice. She had bought a few stray presents for us that got left in Basingstoke apparently?

Even though every shop in the world was apparently sold out of them, Santa came through with a Barbie puppy swim school for me:

We headed outside for a little bit, to have a quick spin on my bike (through the snow).

And to throw some of our smart little bangers from our stockings.
Grandad and Anne came round for lunch with a few more presents that had found their way to Swindon.

Christmas dinner was of course a pigs in blankets fest, we love them!

Team them up with the crackers and the relaxed rules about how much we have to eat before we can have pudding and we were well on to a winner.

Later in the afternoon we headed off out to Auntie Christines, rather surprisingly there were yet more presents to be had:

Here we are with our very own copy of the sound of music to watch.

A double dose of Auntie Trish as she was there too, I helped her on a winning streak at shut the box:

Alan and Hayley arrived later on, even though poor old Hayley was struggling with a savage sounding cold.

Guess what? They had......presents!

We stayed really late and had a lovely time, thanks for having us!

And thanks to everyone we saw on the day (and indeed the days before) for such lovely presents. We really were very pleased with them all and know how lucky we are.

So boxing day then, nothing planned, just a lazy day eating and playing.

It was lovely to be able to go through all our new stuff properly.

Sadly mum was back to work on Monday so we had another lazy day going through our new stuff.

Another go with our bangers and a little bike ride for all of us. It was still a bit snowy though.

So after three days of staying mostly in, we thought we'd better get out and about. We took some bread to feed the ducks in the park and then we went to meet mum for lunch.

We took her to the pasty shop and then went to get little Finley a present.

Yes, we've got another little friend to play with, congratulations to Chris and Kate!

We went home to watch Dad's favourite film ET. We hadn't seen it before but Mum said it was really sad and she always cries when she see's it. I didn't cry of course, and I loved the BMX bit!

I cried, I cried quite a lot when the poor little chap got all poorly. I also cried when he got better and went home to his mummy and daddy.

Wednesday and we went out again, this time to Avebury stone circle, it was really foggy on the way and Silbury Hill looked really cool with the mist all around it.

It was a really good explore with plenty of hills to climb.

The stones were pretty strange, some of them looked like they would fall over if we gave them a good old shove:

But they didn't, I suppose they have been there like that quite a while:

We went back to the car and had a lovely picnic and a sing song before we headed home.

Thursday was Ice Skating day. We took Andy along (and got in on a 'family' ticket).

Here I am in my rather fetching ice skates:

I know this will probably sound a bit stupid but the ice was just so slippery!

Dad and Andy did a really good job of keeping us upright.

And by the end of it I was sort of getting around quite well on my own:

Friday and Dad finally cracked and took me to the BMX track. It was pretty muddy and soft but I made the most of it and my new bike was brilliant:

I certainly showed Dad, Owen and Andy how it was done.

After one lap of the track I curled up in the tent with a few cuddly toys and the picnic and snuggled down for a kip:

Well it was now the weekend so Mum was back off work for a couple of days at least.

We made the most of it by going to the Cotswold Wildlife park, a winter favourite of ours.

First stop was the Lemur enclosure where thay aren't in cages and like to run around and jump about the place.

I thought maybe some gentle provocation would get them to perform:

This was about as close as I was prepared to get to them:

What? Lemur? In my hood?

We loved listening to the keeper lady do a talk on them and we learned all about where they live in the wild and what they like to eat.

The Otters were on good form, having a game of Otter tag:

And the Meerkats were really funny too. We got to them at feeding time, and do you know what they ate? Hard boiled eggs!

We love the farm section and I managed to help Ellis over her fear of animals larger than cats:

Yeah, I got really brave and loved these little goats:

There was a lioness that you could kiss through the glass:

And there was a brand new giraffe enclosure and even playfighting Rhino's.

Of course there was also the train, we were very lucky and caught the last one of the day:

We went to Grandad and Annes for lunch on Sunday. As we left Mum and Dad, in a devious, sneaky move snatched our Muzzy and blankey and put them in the washing machine.

To say we weren't happy was an understatement. We screamed and wailed like we'd had a leg cut off.

We were just about over it by the time we got there and we had the coolest little cakes ever with lovely pink and purple icing.

And then we watched Madagascar as it was a little bit too cold and muddy to go to the park.

Mum was back to work on Monday so we took her out for lunch again, then it was home to watch Snow Buddies on DVD and then a visit from Auntie Christine and Uncle Ian.

We showed them all our lovely presents.

I did a few peg board pictures with Auntie Christine.

And I took uncle Ian on at Draughts.

We had a letter each from Santa.

Yeah, a real one that the postman bought and everything.

He seemed to know an awful lot about us, and told us that he was doing final checks on the sleigh and that he had a new 'Santa-nav'

And he told me that he likes to tell lots of jokes and was about to put my presents on the sleigh ready for delivery. Exciting or what!!!

I've been a little bit concerned with an advert on telly though, it says that because of global warming santa's take-off runway is melting. Mum says not to worry about it and Dad says it's okay as Santa goes to hot countries too where there isn't any snow at all and he manages just fine. Having said all this, i'm not so sure about the whole Santa thing really. First of all, I can't see how he has the time to get around to everyone in just one night (unless he stops time somehow?) and secondly Mum is being very protective of whats under the bed...makes me very suspicious that does...is she hiding..............Presents perhaps? I think i'll go along with it for now all the same.

We had our school nativity play on Wednesday morning, Mum got there nice and early and bagged front row seats for Ellis and Dad. I was so pleased they were at the front for once and gave them a big old wave.

I gave a big shout for Ned as well, he liked that.

I got to sit next to Louise at the back, we were quite a double act during the song and dance numbers and I was really getting into it:

I even sang the songs that were for the other classes as well. The whole thing went really well, so well that Mum decided to even have a little cry.

We had our school Christmas dinner afterwards. It was really good although not as good as Dad's it has to be said (there was only one pig in a blanket for a start). We had crackers and Christmas music though so it was still good fun.

And what did I get to do while Ned was enjoying his day at school? Well after nursery (where I had soaked myself playing with water) Dad and I went to B&Q and Halfords to buy various light bulbs....wow!
Thursday was non uniform Christmas party day. i didn't win the dancing contest and quite frankly it ruined the whole day for me. I'd tried really hard and got nowhere. Dad's pep talk wasn't that inspirational to be honest and did little to help.

We went into town in the evening and we ended up going to Mum's office for a bit. It was brilliant, we punched loads of holes in paper and did some good drawing.

Andy came round for tea in the evening, which of course meant Mum and Dad were going out. Mum went to the ballet, and didn't take me!

Dad went to the pub for his work Christmas party.

We had a great time with Andy as always, thanks Andy.

So friday then was our last day of term. I made sure I told all the teachers and kids about the Santa tracking system on the NORAD website, they loved the idea of that. It was also Mrs Douglas' last day as our teacher as she's moving to the junior school after Christmas. She gave all of us a little cuddle as we left for the day. We weren't sad for long though as Hugo and Matice were coming home with us (due to the early finish).

We had to go and get Matice from Neds old classroom in reception, he was pretty pleased to see me (and the others I suppose).

We got home and went crazy for ten minutes, bombing about and jumping down the stairs before we settled down for a game of Wii Party:

While Matice and I played with Poppy, I think he's over his fear of cats now.

Once they had gone we were pretty tired out so we watched our Mr Men and Noddy Christmas DVD's and a had a snooze.

Dad got a christmas present at work with two pretend poo's in it. They were very lifelike. So lifelike in fact that I thought Poppy had had a poo on my chair when I went to sit up for dinner. I couldn't believe it when Mum picked it up and chucked it at me!

The weekend then, and it snowed...quite a lot!

So once we'd had some breakfast we kitted up and headed out with the sledge to Northcroft.

Andy turned up for a go too, which was good for pushing and pulling purposes:

I loved the two goes I had down the hill but pretty soon I decided my feet were cold and i'd had enough.

So after Mum had a go with me she took Ellis back to the car for some warmth.

Yeah, she put her gloves on my feet which made me look really funny but was lovely and warm.

The boys stuck it out for a bit longer but were soon enough back at the car.

Once we were home Dad finally got the Christmas tree sorted out, about time too:

Here we are snipping it out of it's bag.

We decided which side looked best (a rather difficult task as it turned out) and slid it into position ready to be decorated.

After a nap of course.

I stayed up really late to watch 'Take me out' I love that show but feel sorry for the man if all the lights go out and he goes off alone.

Nothing much happened on Sunday as we were waiting to go to the Panto in the afternoon. It was a good turnout for this one, Auntie Christine, Auntie Trish, Andy, Owen, Hannah and Laura with her little bump. My first Panto then and I loved it, totally lapped it up and sat on the edge of my seat, wide eyed for the whole thing. I was so good and enjoyed it so much they said I could go to the ballet with the girls next year!

Monday then, Mum was off in the morning.

No nursery for me then! I made the most of it by having an epic lie in.

While I played Lego Star Wars on the Wii, my new favourite winter activity. I am actually addicted to it I think, but it is brilliant.

We had a craft morning with Mum yesterday:

Made a nice santa bag:

In the afternoon it was decided that it was high time we built a snowman:

He's a pretty good effort I think:

After that it was my nursey Christmas sing song. I'd missed the last few rehearsals but I didn't need them really as I have bags of natural talent. I got to nursery in plenty of time to get changed into my fancy new Christmas fairy outfit and get into position for my performance:

We were all very good and it was really fun to do with all the mum's and dad's there, the room was packed!

Even I quite enjoyed it and decided i'd sing along too.

We headed into town afterwards for a bit of food shopping and I managed to save Christmas by finding a large untapped seam of Yule log.

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.