Okay, okay, we've been away for a bit so you'll have to make yourself comfy while we catch up.  Here goes...
Going back to the first Tuesday of the Easter holidays we had a day out with Grandad and Anne. 
We went on the train to Reading and then on to Oxofrd.  We loved that.
Things then got even better as we rode on a bus to the river!
And then we boarded a boat for a Thames river cruise.  It was brilliant, especially when Grandad managed to talk the captain into letting me drive the boat for a little bit.  How cool was that?
On the train on the way back we were even allowed to sit in the luggage racks, we loved that.  Thanks for a great day out.
Wednesday was the big one....my birthday!  Seven no less, can you believe that? I was very considerate and got up at 5am so Dad had plenty of time to see me before he headed off to work.  I'm sure Mum was pleased with her lay in on her day off too.
We had a great morning playing with my new toys before we headed off to the cinema to meet Dad fresh from work.  On the way though I managed to rip my trousers somehow and spent the afternoon with my bum hanging out.  We watched the Film Hop about a man who becomes the Eastrer bunny, so it was right up my street really.  After the film it was time for Pizza Hut...I love birthdays. 
We got home and got busy with the cake:

Hmmmm, cake:

Alan and Hayley made an evening visit, and as brilliant as my present was, the real highlight was the small polystyrene chips in the box with it, they were thrown everywhere like a blizzard.

We had a nice day with Auntie Christine on Thursday.  We painted some easter eggs and made some lovely easter puppets before I fell asleep in my usual place on Uncle Ian's bit fo the sofa.

I had a totoally brilliant hunt the Easter Chick session with Auntie Christine using her cold/hot/boiling seeking technique.

Den and Gail paid me a birthday visit in the evening.

I love going out in the garden with Uncle Den.

Alan came to our house to look after us on friday morning.  We made him take us to the park to begin with.

Then it was Wii time.  Super Smash Mario brothers to be exact.  I loved it, Alan loved it and when Dad got home from work he loved it too.  So much so we played it all afternoon until Mum got home from work.

So a big thanks to everyone who took us out, looked after us and played with us over the holidays.

And of course to everyone for making my birthday such a gloriously drawn out and exciting affair this year. 

Saturday then, or was it still Friday night when we were dragged out of bed and stuck in the car?

I don't know, but it was still dark when we got up.  Still, it was for the greater good, we were off on holiday.

After many false starts, cancelled accomodations and all the rest of it we were actually going.

We drove to Poole, by the time we got there it was daylight at least.  We drove our car onto a great big Ferry and in no time at all we headed out to sea (via Poole harbour and past the Sandbanks chain link ferry on the way).

We waved England goodbye for a week from the deck:

It was lovley on the boat, there were nice seats to snuggle in, a cafe that sold coco pops and best of all a room just for kids that had a lovely big screen showing Disney films.

We were soon at the other end and it was time to return to the car and leave the boat. 

We had the usual trip around the side streets of Cherbourg before Dad finally understood what the Sat nav was trying to tell him and we were off towards our house.

It was weird driving on the wrong side of the road.

But we felt quite at home as nearly all the cars on the dual carriageway were British ones.

As we drove further south the number of GB badged cars grew less and less and due to a flash of brilliance by Mum we were soon pulling into our farmhouse. We wasted no time setting up for lunch outside:

The house had a really lovely big garden with some swings:

And our very own meadow/wood with a stream at the bottom of it:

We loved exploring that.

There was also a lovely doggie who lived next door. He was excited to see us and loved us stroking him through the fence.

We like a dog behind a fence.

Even though it did make throwing his ball for him rather difficult.

We even didn't really mind having to go to the Supermarket for some supplies.

Even though I did get pretty tired by late afternoon.

We were up nice and early on Sunday morning and made a massive camp in our bedroom out of chairs, a clothes airer and loads of bedding we didn't use.

We also helped ourselves to the cushions from the downstairs sofa to make it a bit more cosy.

We had some breakfast (croissants of course, but best of all we were allowed those yoghurts in a squeezy tube) and then headed out. 

We went to Clecy, the nearest town for a mooch about.  Like good English people we desperatley sought a parking space and parked in it, only to find we were miles from the town centre or the river (where all the action was) and that there was loads of parking everywhere.  Mum thought the place was deserted and that maybe all the locals had been abducted by aliens?

We made our way to the river Orne and found plenty of life.  And more importanlty plenty of places to hire a boat to crusie the river.  We couldn't decide between a pedalo or an electric motor boat.

The motor boat won out, why pedal?  We were supposed to be taking it easy on holiday after all.

I had a drive:

And so did I:

And Mum enjoyed the scenery and the wildlife spotting:

She was over the moon when we nearly mowed down an otter swimming accross the river.

Yeah, everything was just great until my hat blew off and landed in the water.  But in a great team effort of Dad's boat driving, and Mum holding Ned who leaned right out of the boat it was soon retrieved....it was a bit soggy though.

Next on the agenda was the mini golf i'd spotted further up the river.  I took charge of the scores:

And after 18 holes of tense competition, Mum emerged victorious!

It was hot, thirsty work so we had a lovely cool Fanta afterwards, and a go on the bouncy castle they had at the golf course/Cafe:

Yeah, France seemed to be big on bouncy castles.  We certainly had no problem with that, unless we were all bounced out:

We headed back to the house and decided a BBQ was in order:

And I discoved a new found love for mexican spiced chicken drumsticks!

We headed a bit further afield on Monday and took a trip north to the coast where the D-Day landings had taken place.  I was really interested in all this, especially after Uncle Alan had been showing me on the map where all the battles were last Friday.

We started off at Grandcamp Maisy on the Western end:

We wandered way out to sea on this pier thing.

I didn't like it much, you could see the waterunder neath us.

We wandered up the sea front until we came to the main square where there loads of squashed starfish on the pavements.  We made Dad have Moules for lunch so we could all try them (we didn't like them much, but he did). 

And then we walked back to the car (again, parked in true British style, miles away from where we wanted to be).  By the time we made our way back the tide had gone out so we could walk back along the sand.

And our little pier now stretched out over dry land (well, damp sand).

We got back in the car and headed for a place called Longues Battery, Dad had done some research and this place seemd to have a lot of big guns still left in their bunkers.

We got a bit sidetracked on the way by Omaha beach though.  It was lovely, miles and miles of golden sand with no one really on it.  We parked up (this time in a very frnech style, right next to the sand) and got the beach gear out:

The wetsuits soon followed and it was paddling time:

 I had some digging to attend to first:

But it was soon wetsuit time for me too:

 And then bucket sploshing:

Before the long walk back up the beach:

Nothing like it would have been nearly 67 years ago though......

Once were dried off and refuelled (Fanta of course) we headed off in search of the guns again.

We drove along the coast until we arrived at Longues Sur Mer battery.  It looked like it was going to be really cool and once i'd bought some post cards for my scrapbook we were off accross the headland.

There were four of these massive gun bunkers built by the Germans to defends the coastline.  We loved exploring them.

I didn't really know what they were for but they made excellent places for hiding and climbing.

I loved it, one of them was even a bit blown up where it was taken.  There was a command post too, this is had a lovely bridge accross to it.....lets just say that Anlgo-Spanish relations may have taken a little downturn while I was stood on it.......

We'd had such a good day we were out way longer than we thought we'd be so we had to have a McDonalds on the way back to the farmhouse...it even had a playground outside?  How come they don't here?

We had a bit of a lazy one on Tuesday morning and hung around the house until after lunch.

We sat out in the garden and looked longingly at next doors swimming pool that went unused all week:

We did a bit of cuddling up:

And I made Ellis look like the peg queen of Normandy:

And we generally took it easy:

In the afternoon we headed to the model village in Clecy, first stop was a great big bouncy castle in the shape of a train.  We loved it.

Even though I did need help to climb a high section from Mum or Dad until Ned suggested I took my socks off for a bit more grip. Big brothers are helpfull sometimes I suppose.

Then it was on to the model itself, we were a bit surprised as we thought it was outdoors but once it all kicked off we loved it.  There were trains zooming everywhere and even real smoke from the chimeys.

Mum really liked it when the lights went off and everything lit up.

Once we'd had our fill and checked off everything on the list of things to spot that we'd been given we were off to the bouncy train again, although we did get off for an ice cream:

There was also a little train to ride round on, you know us, suckers for a little train:

We had a lovely picnic by the river:

We had a little baugette left which we decided to throw for the ducks:

Well, Ellis was throwing it for the ducks, I was trying to land mine on a couple of old people on a pedalo....

We had a bit of an explore, Dad was really keen to get up on the viaduct as he'd seen people wandering about up there earlier in the day.

I spotted a steep wiggly staircase that seemed to be the route to the top, so we scaled the heights and took in the view:

Wednesday we headed into Bayeaux to see the tapestry.

I didn't know (or indeed particulalry care) what a tapestry is.

I'd heard all about it and was well excited.

We had a wander round town, and looked at all the weird fish and cheese at the market.

And then we headed into the building to see the tapestry itself.  Because it's so old and under it's own special lights wew weren't allowed to take any pictures of it.  We did get a special audio tour to listen to though for kids only.  It pointed out all the good bits for us as we moved along. 

It really was very long indeed, good job iI took to the buggy.

I loved it, I love my history, especially if theres a a good old fight and some kings involved.

We sat out in the courtyard and mulled over what we'd seen whilst eating some baugette, very french:

We had another wander around Bayeaux, which was really quite nice as it goes.

Yeah, the buildings were nice, but the chocolate shop was better:

And the sweet shop was pretty good too, although I think sweets may be bad for your teeth:

And miracles of miracles we finally found a park, France seems remarkably light on these (or maybe we're spoiled a bit at home?):

Thursday was a big day, our visit to Festyland (like Crealy but in French).

Even though directions were scarce and the sat nav didn't know where it was we finally found our way there.

Our first stop was the merry go round:

Then the train:

Then the boats:

And then best of all, the cars:

Or pink motorbikes of course:

There were also rather more unusual rides like this one:

I tried this but very nearly tipped the boat over.

The pirate boat was a lot more stable, I love pirate boats and this one was world class:

And the lady that ran the ride was really friendly, she liked me, a lot:

She was really nice and made sure a little one like me was enjoying myself, I was:

Three goes later and Dad had to get off because he felt sick, sadly I had to go with him.

I got to stay on for another few goes on my own.

I also got a taste for roller coasters, me and Dad stayed on for four laps without stopping.

There were some lovely horses to ride, just like Crealy:

There was a Beast ride, like at Crealy too, but it was too high for pictures, way above the trees.

There was also a caterpillar ride that parents needed to operate themselves, here's Mum on the controls:

I think it was quite a responsibility for her, especially when a load of french kids got on the ride too.

We decided that the swing merry go round was also the best we'd ever been on:

It was super fast and swung right out! 

As usual we were pretty much the last ones to leave the park.

All too soon it was Friday, our last day.  We had a relaxing morning in the garden.

Lizard spotting, there were quite a few cool little lizards that came out for a spot of sunbathing.

I named them 'Croaky' and thought it was hilarious.

But you scared them off more often than not.

Mum made me a daisy chain tiara:

And we spent quite a while gathering garden ingredients for a nice stew (mostly grass, interesting leaves and dandelions):

All mixed up with some water in the cooking pots.  Fortunately I also decided I like washing up:

We also picked some wild flowers to make a rather attractive table centrepiece:

Once we'd had enough of being lazy (and we ran out of pringles) we headed back to the river for a bit more boating.

But this time I really fancied a pedalo:

My little legs weren't much use for pedalling the thing so I made myself comfortable.

While the top powerhouse team of me and Mum did the real business:

After a much needed ice cream we headed for a nearby town called Falaize, birthplace of William the Conqueror.  This meant a castle to visit:

Even I love a castle to visit:

This one was the birthplace of William the Conqueror so we got anothe cool audio tour to listen to.

And loads of twisty steep steps to climb up:

But most cool of all was the games rooms that were placed here and there aroud the castle.  Every now and then a room with comfy cushions and a selection of medieval games would appear.  We found one with shut the box in it and I gave everyone a good whooping (with a score of just 1).

So that was our French week all but done and dusted, we had a lovely time in the all the sunshine and didn't even miss Cbeebies or CBBC.

We had to get up a bit earlier than we would have liked on Saturday to make sure we got the ferry home okay.

But we just so happened to have two small ice creams in the freezer that needed eating, quality breakfast or what?

We were soon on board the ferry and heading for home, waving France au revoir:

We got home just after lunch and had a lovely time going through our toys and what have you.

Sunday was of course Easter, so it was a sort of early start for the egg hunt:

Even I was quite taken with it all this year and was glad the Easter bunny hadn't forgotten us what with us being on holiday and all:

After visits from Auntie Trish and Mark and Uncle Den and Auntie Gail (all laden with Easter eggs, yum, thanks!) it was round to Kimi and Marney's place for a barbecue.

Abi and Faye were there as well as Yanna and Fen so it was quite a gathering.

Mum went to work on Monday so we spent most o fhte day at the park.  Fin from school was there with his sister so we played with them for a ages.

Yes, I was the scary monster chasing them all!

We picked Mum up from work and then took her out for a picnic for tea, at another park of course. 

Mum looked after us on Tuesday morning, we had a low key one and played some board games and the like. 

Then in the afternoon we made an erupting volcano for my school project (nothing like leaving it until the last minute).  We had to mix vinegar, washing up liquid and red food colouring before dropping in some bicarbonate of soda.  It went everywhere!  Hopefully the video should appear soon....

Back to school and nursery today.

I was quite excited about it all actually, I had a lot to catch up on with my friends.

Just as a side note, we've found this really funny this afternoon (you'll need sound on):

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It was a dark day for fashion on Tuesday. I made my own trousers soaking wet playing in the water at nursery and had no spares in my bag.  That meant nursery trousers.  Oh no.  Not only that, they were dark blue cords....boys torusers!  I was so upset about it, I cried all the way back to the car when Dad picked me up.. he couldn't understand what the fuss was all about, he doesn't know anything!

I didn't bother with the Easter meal at school, the things on offer didn't make the grade so I settled for a marmite sandwich instead.

One thing I have been loving at the moment is blossom on all the trees and bushes.  I love it, all pretty and blowing around on the wind.

Mum came to my Easter assembly on Thursday morning.  I had an important job at the end of my class row so they had to come and go on my prompting.  I didn't let that put me off giving the singing 100% though.  Once again she did the business and got a seat on the front row.

I also got to go to Tesco for the shopping trip.  I quite enjoyed it actually.  I think Dad enjoyed having another little helper too.

As if that wasn't enopugh excitement for one day ot was also Mum's birthday.  We'd spent ages making the cards and wrapping the presents so couldn't wait for her to finally finish work:

She did her cards and presents and then it was the main event, the cake!
We got her a Colin the Caterpillar this year.
Yes and he was delicious.
It was the last day of term on Friday, we spent most of the day ou ton the field in the sunshine playing games.
We had to pick Ned up especially early from school so made the most of it by going to the park.
I think everyone had the same idea, there were hundreds of us down there and we had a great time. 
We took our bikes and I finally got to silence a few of my friends who thought they were faster than me (mentioning no names here of course).
I held my own with the bigger kids on all the new play stuff.
Dad pushed me and a load of my class mates super high in the basket swing and
I even got involved in a game of football, unlike Dad I wasn't picked last!  In fact I was picked first.
We headed off for a well earned ice lolly at home.
Once we'd had five minutes rest it was trampoline time, which ended a little badly.
Ned bumped me in the cheek and it really hurt.  I had a good old cry about that one.
It was soon forgot about when Auntie Trish arrived for babysitting duties though.  Once we had got rid of mum and we had a lovely time.
And I got to grips with my new 'Boy stuff Top Secret' book.  There's loads of things to fill in, I've hardly put it down since I got it.
After some early morning baking action with Mum (yes Mum you read right) we had a trip out to the theatre with the Aunties on Saturday morning.
To watch a man do tricks with bubble blowing.  He had some serious skills.
He could blow bubbles big enough for children to get into!
We went to the park afterwards, which was great fun but I think it helped contribute to the blisters I developed on my feet....ouch!  All dad's fault as well, making me wear my sparkly shoes (although I did look lovely).
In the evening we went straight round to Abi and Fayes to play while the grown ups stayed in and did boring stuff.
Abi's new play house was seriously cool at the top of the garden, though she did enforce a strict shoes off rule (well it was luxuriously carpeted).
I got to dazzle everyone with my new found swing skills.
Once it got a bit later we took to the beanbags with a big bowl of popcorn to watch some DVD's and have a snooze.  Perfect.
Sunday was the biggest event of the year, my family birthday outing to the Szechuan.  I had been getting excited about this for weeks.
And so was I, even if I only like chips and don't really care much for chinese food:

It was a really good turnout and took some considerable effort to 'work the room'

Although I think between us we managed it okay:

I was even allowed a pudding:

I'd like to thank everyone for coming along, even those of us who were feeling al ittle 'delicate' after Auntie Christines 'retirement' party in town on Saturday night. 

I know, I can't believe she's old enough to retire either!

Just so as she could start enjoying the easy life, she looked after us for the day today, she'll wish she was back at work before long.

We had a lovely day and only watched  a little bit of The Sound of Music this time round.  Still, there's always next time.

I finally managed to complete one of my homework challenges from school this week.  We've been studying space so i'm proper keen.  I drew a lovely diagram of our solar system and made sure all the planets were the correct size and colour and included the appropriate rings and what have you.

We went out shopping form Mum's mothers day present on Tuesday afternoon.  In the spirit of top secret present buying, I fell asleep in the buggy and didn't even see what Dad was buying on our behalf so there was no way I could blab.

I'd already put my present request in for mothers day, a large box on Lindor chocolates.

On Wednesday we went to the Fair Close old peoples home to deliver the money we raised from the cake sale.  We did them a few songs and hung out for a bit and we really enjoyed it.  I  especially enjoyed walking there and back with all my friends.

After we picked Ned up from school in Thursday we went to the big park in town.  I got to do loads of climbing which i'm really into at the moment:

 We loved the springy see-saw until Dad nearly pinged us off it and we got bruised bums:

I was a bit disappointed that the old skatepark had been taken down and the new one was still just a few piles of rubble though.

I also bought Mum home some flowers from nursery that we had bundled up for  mothers day, we decided she could have them early because i'm good like that.

On friday I bought her home some peppermint creams i'd made her at nursery too.  They also didn't last until the actual Mothers day. 

We also had a busy creative session making mothers day cards.

Yeah, we covered all bases of course, glitter, glue and loads of sticking.

I went to get new school shoes on Friday after Mum finished work.  I'm now a whopping great 13H!

We had a Friday night disco session after tea, I do love strutting my moves of an evening.

Saturday, we had a boys and girls split.

Dad and I headed for Gosport BMX track for a coaching session (for me, he's way beyond help).  We got there nice and early and had a good few laps before anyone else turned up.  I shouted at Dad every time he overtook me of course.  It was really good fun when the lesson began and there were loads of us joining in.  We did some sprints, some cone slalom, and practised bunny hopping before getting a few lessons on gate starts on the track proper.  I was dead keen on taking it all in and making sure i was close enough to the front to hear what was being said, i'm dead serious about getting faster.

Mum and I had a leisiurely morning at home.  We got all my toys out and had a good old play session before heading off down the park.  Ned's friend Ben was there and his little sister Lilly and we had a great time, shame Ned missed it really.  We went to the shop after we'd finished at the park and I reckon Ned must have smelt the lolly i'd got him as they arrived just as we were leaving.

I do love my BMX riding, but I think I love my sister a little bit more, we had a nice cuddle.

After lunch we went to the Coral Reef for a swim, just to keep Ellis happy.

Yeah, I love swimming the most.  I had a big smile on my face the whole time.  Even when we had to go through the tunnel to the outside section! 

I actually quite enjoyed it too, especially all the jumping in and best of all the diving.  I've really got my dives down now.  There were a bunch of lads on something that Dad said must have been on a stag do at the pool, I joined in there game of splash, they loved that.  Thigs were all a bit weird outside though as the one that was wearing a ladies bikini in the pool had been cling filmed to a lamp post in the car park.  He seemd to find it all quite amusing and a passer by was helping him escape.  Very weird. 

Had a bit of lazy morning on Sunday, giving mum her presents and cards, she was well pleased of course.  I even made her breakfast for her.

The we headed off for the seaside.

It all seemed like a good idea, but when we actually got on the beach it was freezing and windy and I didn't like it.

I wasn't quite so bothered,  even if it did take ages for the bacon to cook because of the wind on the stove flame:

I got Mum to tuck my cardy in, a rather pathetic effort to try and retain some body heat:

I wasn't too cold for an ice cream though, no way.
Me neither.  Or for a game of chase the tide up and down the beach or some good old fashioned stone throwing.

I've taken to applying a little bit of lippy and some eye shadow every now and again when we go to pick Ned up from school, well, you never know who you might bump into do you? I've also been making loads and loads of pirate treasure maps recently at nursery. I'm not quite down with the proper lingo though, X marks the Spencer according to Ellis.

Another thing i've been doing a lot of lately is finger clicking. I love it even more as Ned can't do it. I like to precede a finger click by saying 'check me out' and then wafting my hand through the air with a nice crisp click.

Nursery must have been feeling particularly brave on Wednesday as they took us all on a group outing to the park at Northcroft. We had a great time of course, especially when we al rolled down the big hill.

I was a lot happier at multisports this week as firstly it didn't clash with a cake sale and secondly we were playing tennis. I love tennis.

We hit the shops hard on Thursday as we had to get all Ned's requirements for tea, he had a friend coming round.

Yes, I did, Tegan. She's really cool, has a BMX and a collection of those mini skateboards. When we got in she produced a bag of sticky lizards that stuck to the roof really nicely. We did making, we did Lego, we played in the garden for a bit and then we had super long spaghetti, garlic bread and super gooey chocolate cake and cream for pudding.

I couldn't work out why she wasn't interested in my pink sparkly ponies?

We took her home after tea and got to invade her house, she even has a Nerf gun!

We went to see Mum at lunchtime but we didn't go anywhere for dinner. I was not happy about that especially as it was pasta for lunch at nursery and our dislike for pasta is well known. Mum came to the rescue though and got me a cookie from Marks and Spencers no less. We went to pay Auntie Christine a visit at her shop. She was pretty excited with it being her birthday and all, so we timed that really well and got to take some of her birthday cake home with us.

We went to the park after school, the new bit still wasn't open.

We still had a good time though.

Yeah, loads of our friends were there to play with as well.

Sue came round to look after us on Friday night, we hadn't seen her for ages.

She bought us some comics and my Scooby Doo was so cool i've barely let it out of my sight since. I've particularly loved all the brilliant monster pictures to colour in.

The weekend started with a trip to trampolining on Saturday morning as I didn't get to go on Wednesday.

But this time I was allowed to come along too.

We both loved it, I got to show Mum and Ned all my tricks.

And once i'd calmed down a bit I did some really good controlled tricks. I hope we get to go again soon.

Once that was finished we headed into town for haircuts.

We LOVE haircuts.

I really enjoyed sitting in the chair and being brushed and trimmed and generally made a fuss of.
I sat with my trademark stern face throughout the whole thing and couldn't wait to get my hands on my lolly.

We headed home for lunch and five minutes calm before Luca came round for the afternoon.

Yeah, thats right, Hugo's little brother!

It was nice to have one of my friends round, I got to show him all my toys and best of all my lovely cat. We played out in the garden and even helped do some gardening with Mum and Dad before we had a bounce on the trampoline.

Yeah, Dad set the trampoline up for the summer season again.

We went to the Wash Common park, but Mum overdid the pushing on one of the roundabouts and poor old Luca didn't like it. In fact, he wanted to go back to our house for something to eat. This time it was my turn to feed my friend super long spaghetti.

His mum and Dad came back to get him halfway through though, so Hugo and Matice got to come in and play until he was finished which was brilliant.

Auntie Christine was babysitting in the evening so we had a nice quiet one with her.

Then in Sunday it was Legoland day! Things didn't look good when we arrived and had to park further away than we ever have done before...it was going to be busy, busy, busy!

It certainly was, there was a lot queueing to be done but we made the best of it and had a good time, even if we did vow to come back soon once the weather wasn't quite so nice or something?

Yeah, It was well worth it just to see how wet one man can get on the viking river rapids. No one is ever going to sit next to Dad on that again, he's a water magnet or something!

We went to the park again tonight after school, but finally some good news, the fence has gone!

Which meant we could really get into the new stuff. We love it, especially the slide, it's tall and really curly. I soon decided it wasn't exciting enough though and decide I should go down it head first and on my back. It was quite a brave move and by the time I got to the bottom I was somehow the right way round. It was so risky in fact that Ned decided having a go himself.

After what must have been a rush of blood to the head I managed to get myself re-enrolled in swimming lessons.  It was my first one on Tuesday and I found it all a bit of a struggle if truth be told.  Well, I hadn't been for what must be nearly a year and the first thing I had to do was front crawl across the big pool (which was FREEZING).  I'm not good at front crawl though, had it been backstroke I would have been well in there.  I picked up a bit towards the end though and was really good at retrieving things from the bottom of the pool and of course my backstroke width.  Hopefully next time won't be quite so traumatic.

Hmmm, I wasn't too great at trampolining this week either.  In fact I decided having a kip on the side of the trampoline was the way forward instead.  In fact I was feeling pretty under the weather and hadn't had a good nights sleep.

It was multi sports club in Wednesday after school again, but this week I was not so happy about it as it clashed with our charity cake sale.  I had to miss out on cakes!  We'd spent two days making them at school and everything.  I kept on and on about it all night, Dad was really sympathetic but I knew I could rely on Mum.  She had a word at school next day and there just so happened to be more than enough cakes leftover.  I was mighty pleased about that and managed to stuff myself and even get one for Ellis (with a pink Mini Egg on top no less).

Dad also found some of my race pictures out on the internet, I was pretty pleased with them too, much better than his and Mum's efforts:

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I felt a lot better on Thursday, no doubt due to the Calpol Mum was feeding me. 

Excitement central for tea time, Andy was round!

There is of course a downside to this, parents evening...AGAIN!  I had nothing to worry about by all accounts though, i'm doing pretty much as well as I should except in maths, where i'm even better!

We had a game of build a beetle while Mum and Dad were gone which was nice.

And we didn't even resort to any shouting or squabbling.

The weekend was soon on us and yet again we had to go to Wantage for cars.

At least this time we actually got one though, even if it is pretty much the same as the last one, albeit a bit nicer....

.........and it doesn't smell of Ellis' cheese sandwich sick which is nice.

There was a bit of flaw in Dad's plan for the afternoon, the boat yard in Abingdon hadn't opened yet for the season even though it was a lovely sunny day.  So our plans of  a leisurley afternoon cruising the river Thames became an afternoon in the park and an ice cream.

There was a pretty big slide by todays standards:

It got Mum and Dad talking about when they were kids and there was a huge slide in Victoria Park or something.........yawn.

Biggest news of all though was that I finally managed to get on a swing and get it going really high with no help at all.  Atter all these years i've finally achieved what looked to be impossible.  Jumped off it from a pretty impressive height too!

And I got to show off my climbing prowess on stuff that was meant for much bigger kids, i'm getting like Spiderman these days!

Grandad and Anne and Alan and Hayley came round for dinner on Sunday. 

There was obviously a massive fuss over who was going to sit where and mum managed to broker a deal to keep all the parties concerned happy.

After lunch we forced Alan into going for a walk in the sunshine.  We went to the park for a bit, he reckons he hated it.

I didn't as we managed to find a hole in the fence of the new park equipment and test it all out.  It was brilliant and it's a shame it's all still fenced off. 

I hope we don't get into trouble for going on there.......