We've been very sow getting ready for school this week and Mum had just about had enough.

So we had a telly ban in the morning, oh no!  What a disater!

One thing I didn't need any chasing to get ready for was dancing classes re-starting after the holidays on Wednesday afternoon though. It was lovely to get there early enough to have a chat with the teachers before we started.  They'd asked if i'd had a nice summer holiday and if i'd started school yet.  Dad told them that i'd asked if it was dancing day at least three times a week for the last 7 weeks or so and they seemed really pleased.

I had to do my reading in the car with Dad while we waited.  Now i'm in juniors we get to pick our own books, so I got a lovely factual one about African animals.  Still wasn't that bothered about tactually reading it though and spent most of the time asking Dad whether a Rhino could beat up an Elephant and suchlike.

I bought home my first massive load of artwork from school on friday, a load of 'telescopes' that i'd made.

I had my first session of after school multisports club on Thursday, it was great to be back and I loved it of course.

And I had my last afternoon trip to Tesco with Dad (i'll be full time at school next week).  We had a big final herb smelling session and I got pretty much all of them right, job done!  I also managed to revive my mystery word from Pizza Hut at the weekend...Tom Screws!  Dad didn't have a clue what I wanted when I asked for these at the salad bar, dozy old fool, it was quite obviously croutons I wanted!

Friday and we had a special day off school for Alan and Haykey's wedding, proper exciting stuff.

I was really excited to be having a day off but still spent most of the day looking out of the window to see what my friends were up to in the playground.

We scootered into town with Mum to get her hair cut.

And got a hot chocolate and some biscuits while we were in the hairdressers.  This pleased Dad as he thought we'd got our moneys worth with the haircut.

We got home and had to sort our stuff out for a night away.

Eat some lunch, slowly.

And then Dad was home from work and we were sort of ready to go.

It wasn't far to Wasing Park so we were soon there and checked into our room for the night:

We decided we really liked the room, nice big comfy bed and a lovely close range telly...cool!

Everyone started to show up, we were particulalry pleased to see Yanna and Fen:

We had to pose some pictures of course, I decided to pull faces in all of them:

And then it was time for the ceremony, I was actually pretty excited about it all and made sure I sat on the end of the row so I could get a good view of Hayley in her dress:

She looked very pretty of course, I was pretty much awestruck:

So here we are with Alan, Hayley, Mum, Dad Grandad and Anne:

And here are Abi and I, weighing up Hayleys dress:

Once all the talking and signing and what have you was all finished we headed out onto the lawn for a run about which was cool.

But not as cool as the bouncy castle man turning up, I chivvied him up best I could:

And then we were all on for a good old bounce!

Before I managed to aquire some flowers to look lovely with:

We had a lovely meal, the table had some top notch sweeties for us kids,

With some lovely decorations!

And the coolest Pokemon cake ever:

Once all the eating and talking bits were finished we had another bomb about outside before the disco started and a load more people we knew turned up, cool!

Yeah the disco was pretty good to begin with, but the the grown ups started dancing and it all went down hill really, they were pretty embarrassing so we hid in the corner:

We had a really great day and we hope Alan and Hayley did too!

So we stayed over that night and got to have a lovely breakfast with all of Hayley's family and some of our friends the following morning.

I had a record breaking four bowls of cereal!

We finally made our way home at nearly lunchtime and had a very restfull afternoon.

In the evening though we rounded up Andy and Owen and headed to Pewsey for the carnival.

First thing on the agenda was candy floss:

We had to wait a little while for the floats to start coming but that just gave us plenty of time to get our pockets full of change ready!

Yeah, for throwing onto the lorries, taking great care not to hit anyone of course.

Unless it was an accident...oops!

I think our favourite was this Lego racers one.

Sunday we went to Newbury show, I can't remember what it was like as last time we went I was a baby so I was pleasantly surprised actually, especially with all the animals:

Even I loved the sheep:

But not as much as I loved the super cool army stuff.  We got to shoot paintballs, do Laser Quest and get in a real life tank!

We had a long wander around and saw loads of cool tractors and quad bikes as well as some really smart campervans.

Yeah we had a good old dig about in those, we found where the cookers, sinks and fridges were hidden.

I treally think we shoulkd have bought ourselves one, but apparently they were a too expensive?

There was also a trip on the big wheel, luckily for Dad it could only seat three:

I also won a lovely gold, glittery, light up bouncy ball on the hook a duck game.  Was well pleased with that!

And of course Dad and I did our best to get mum to let us have a hot tub for the garden.....we didn't succeed, maybe next year?

I had my first full day at school today, right up until 3:10 in the afternoon....I managed it easily of course, even if I might have got a little sleepy on the carpet during story time...oops.

I had my first proper day at school on Tuesday, I had been counting down the days for a good while so I was super excited.

And I had my first day in juniors as well, I wasn't quite so excited as Ellis.  Especially as I have to wear a tie now.  Having said that I did manage to tie it myself:

I went off to breakfast club on my own as a special treat, but the usual gate was locked so I had to go round and through the car park.....which I got told off for.  So that was a good start to the new school year.

Dad eventually came home from work to take me in with Mum too.  We went to my classroom and I got to stick my name on the board to show that I was in class.  Then it was on to the cloakroom and I found my very own peg with a lovely little doggie picture on it.  Once all that was dealt with I tucked myself into a game of Jenga and barely even noticed Mum and Dad leave.  I had a great time, just as I was starting to feel a little bit hungry and thirsty we had an apple and some milk.  We played some games together to help learn each others new names and soon enough it was time to go home again (we're only on short days at the moment).

Our new subject for the term is under the sea creatures, i'm well into that of course.  We also had a sand castle building competition which was pretty much ace and I got to put my recently honed skills from Cornwall to good use.

On my next day I gave a little more detail about what we'd been up to during my morning.  We'd sung songs about monkeys, did some painting and chose our own books to take home and read (A Disney princess one and a Beatrix Potter story with a mouse called Timmy Willy in it which I found conpletely hysterical ).

We managed to get our energy levels back up to scratch for a trip to the park on Thursday after school which was nice.

Dad cleared off for the weekend on Friday, by the time we got up he'd gone. 

So it was Mum and us for the weekend.

And Auntie Christine to pick us up from school on Friday afternoon, yay!

Even if she did tell Alastair off for throwing stones.

When Mum got home she'd got us some sweets that were soooo fizzy we couldn't even eat them.

And then made us Spaghetti that was so salty that I said it was saltier than the sea!

We had a wander down to the canal to feed the ducks on Saturday morning.

Followed by an afternoon at Shreya's birthday party at Krazy Klub.  When we got there Mum discovered I hadn't put any knickers on under my dress....oops.  I was banned form going on any slides, not good.  Luckily Kimi nad Marney were eleaving just as we got there so I managed to borrow a pair of her spares, thanks!  The party was really good fun, even if I did get caught attempting to ride a scooter from the top of the big bumpy slide.

I went along too which was a rare treat, I played with my old nursery friend Edward again but mostly got chased round by Lois' big sister.

When we got home, I decided i'd let my party balloon go for Nanny and Grandma:

Sunday we had a very lazy sofa and TV day until we had to go and pick Dad up.

At least he'd got us a present I suppose!

We decided to celebrate our re-unification with a trip to Pizza Hut, hooray!

Auntie Christine looked after us last Tuesday.

Well, Auntie Christine with a rolling cast of Laura, Darcey and Uncle Den at various parts of the day anyway.

Yeah, how lovely.  We watched Toy Story 3 and went to the park amongst our trips to two supermarkets to get my Garlic Roule cheese (my current favourite).

Mum had Wednesday off, we had a quiet morning and we're all set to go to JJ's in the afternoon.

We were, but I was being a bit of a naughty boy and we didn't go.  Oh dear.  I was rather upset to say the least.....

We went to Snelsmore in the late afternoon instead.

I did NOT want to go, at all, under any circumstances.

I did, I love going up the woods and wandering about.

I changed my tune pretty soon when we saw the horses grazing and I tried t sneak up on them......no good they saw me a mile off and suantered off. 

We loved the swing of course:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes we did indeed, I decided I liked the woods after all (but JJ's would have been better):

We did a little bit of tree climbing:

Trip to the cinema on Thursday, I love the cinema.

We went to see Mr. Poppers penguins with Auntie Trish and Auntie Christine.  We loved it.

Yeah, we really loved it and talked about it all night at home afterwards.

We visited the pasty shop for lunch and ate it by the canal in the sunshine, lovely.

Then it was home to give Auntie Trish a crash course in the fine art of Uno playing.

Then it finally happened, we actually went to JJ's at long last. 

Yes we did indeed, there were car seats and no bad behaviour...nothing to stop us!

Trish and Mark came to pick us up and head back to Amazingstoke, we were the first ones through the door so it mega exciting.

We gave them the full guided tour as they hadn't been before, Mark stepped up to the plate with a trip around the very top section which is super tight and wriggly and of course he went on the drop slide.

And so did I!  Without anyone holding me or anything.  I had a little pep talk from Ned and then...whoosh! 

We had a McDonalds for lunch to round things off before returning home.  Perfect.

Once we'd picked Mum up from work we headed off to Hungerford for a riverside picnic, Dad was desperate to wring the last bit of summer out for all it was worth.

I bolted my picnic down as quick as I could as I couldn't wait for a splash about.

I ate a little more than Ellis was but soon enticed in, the swing is still really cool:

Weird scenes on saturday, Mum went out on her own for the day to something called a Hen party?  It was for Hayley so we're guessing it's something to do with the wedding thats coming up?

We ordered Mum to take a Legoland Badge with her to remind her of us.

Whatever it was all about we had Dad for the day alone, luckily he'd seen sense and organised some activities for us. 

Yeah we went bowling with Alan, Andy, Owen, Kin, Fen and a chap called Chris.

We had a good time, even though I was a little disappointed with my bowling performance.

I wasn't, I got some strikes and even beat Owen (without using the ball launching ramp thing I might add).

After the bowling we had a go on the arcade machines for a good while.

We went home for a lovely bit of shepherds pie for me!

And some hot sausage rolls for me before we were given the choice of a bedtime story or Dr. Who.

Dr. Who won out of course, we had a cuddle up session and watched it before turning in for the night Mumless.

There was very little activity on Sunday morning, I think it turned out to be a rather late night for the grown ups in the end.

Thankfully Slim and Trace paid us a visit to liven things up, sporting their Brazil suntans

and some really cool pencils made out of tree branches that they'd got us on their travels.

And a really cool elastic band launched, light up helicopter thing, sounds complicated, looks awesome, can't wait for the dark evenings to see it in all it's glory.  Of course I had to teach Slim how to play Uno, we gave him a good old stuffing but Dad says thats only because we weren't playing for money.

It was then time for Luca's party, I was really looking forward to this one.  It started off in the sports hall with all the gymnastic equipment set up as an obstacle course.  I was on it straight away, balancing over the beam easily and jumping form the really high bits.  Then it was bouncy castle, Bumpers and then the food.  Luca and I were the first ones to eat up by a mile...spaghetti!!!!

And what exciting things did Dad and I get up to while the gorls were out?  Well, I played a Motocross game on the Wii while Dad watched bike racing on the internet.  He was getting rather excited about it all too, in fact just like some people do when there's football on the telly?

I came home pretty worn out, but stil had enough energy to give Ned my cake (that had yucky jam in it) and give my lovley Poppy a bit of loving:

Then it was monday, the last day of the summer holidays.

Mum was at work so Dad was on duty today.  We had a slow start with a bit of computer games/telly/board games before we went to town to take Mum out for lunch.

We finally found a copy of the Harry Potter book thats missing from home.  Thats good, I can carry on with those at bedtime now.

And then in the afternoon we went to the Uffington white horse, my word it was windy:

But it was also seriously cool, thousands of years old apparently? 

Whatever, it was on a massive hill and we loved it.  We could see for miles (until the rain swept in anyway). 

We walked all the way around the hill fort too, where I gave Dad and Ellis a brief outline of how I would defend the castle if it was up to me.  This included Stinging nettles, brambles, rose bushes and thistles as a front line.  Followed by a team of trained angry horses adn kicking donkeys, backed up by kicking kangaroos, a sprinkling of tigers and lions and then a crack squad of assasin beavers. 

We got home and I went through my final preparations for my first day at school tomorrow.  I've chosen to go with my summer dress for my first day.  I'm pretty excited about it as well!
And I had a crash course on how to tie a tie now i'm going to be a junior.  Remarkably I think i've got the hang of it already, must be Mum's expert teaching?
So thats it for this week and indeed the summer holidays too.  We'd like to really thank everyone who's looked after us over the last six weeks, and I hope you have recovered from whatever ill effects you may have incurred (ringing of the ears, stress, the snivels etc.).

Another quick fire update to get us back up to date after holidays I think....

Yeah, good idea.  We got back from hoilday with a bump and it was a family outing to Tesco on the monday so we had something to eat and drink for the week.

It wasn't too bad a trip actually, we had to buy presents for the run of birthday parties i've been invited to over the next few weeks so that was nice.

We also bought our own set of Uno cards as well, brilliant, home for Uno it was then!

Mum was off with us for the whole week so a lazy morning was in order on Tuesday with plenty of telly to watch.

Dad got home at lunchtime and then we had to go out shopping...urrrgh! 

Having sid that, it wasn't actually too bad.  We went to get shoes for everyone bar Mum.  SHe had a lovely time trying 'fascinators' on though, they made us laugh thats for sure.

I made up for that by getting two pairs, one for Alan and Hayleys wedding and a pair of new trainers (my old ones were so smelly they had to be disposed of).

Wednesday morning we had a trip tp the park.

Which meant time away from my precious television.

And then in the afternoon we headed for Legoland.  We hadn't ever been in the holidays before and my word was it busy!

Yeah it was, but I think that helped us sneak in when it turned out that our 'annual' passes don't actually seem to work during school holiday?

We had a lovely time playng in the water park, here I am plugging a water jet with my head:

While Mum and Ellis queued up for the boats, I decided that the cars were the way forward.  I managed to get two goes before Mum and Ellis got on.

I really enjoyed it on the boats though so it was well worth the wait:

The queues seem to be dieing out a bit by late afternoon and seeing as it was open until 8, we had plenty of time to get on the rides:

And after we'd ridden the Viking River Splash, the Pirate Ship, The Spinning Spiders, the little Train, a good stint on the playgound, Supersonic Racers and Scarab Bouncers we managed to squeeze another go on the cars in:

Thursday Morning saw another one of my main summer holiday objectives fulfilled when we visited the new(ish) Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe in town.

Before heading to the cinema to see the Smurf's film.

I loved it.

I wasn't so sure really.

On Friday afternoon we went to the Corn Exchange to see a show, Mr Benn.

Apparently this was on telly when Mum and Dad were kids?  Never heard of it myself but they seemed keen enough.

It was really good though, plenty of laughs, adventure and even a sprinkling of magic tricks.

After that we hit the shoe shops yet again for my third new pair of the week, this time though it was for my school shoes.....it won't be long now and i'm proper excited.  Almost as excited as I am about my dancing classes starting again.  I do put on the occasional performance at home of me dancing skills (in my proper dancing outfit of course).

Saturday was my nursery graduation party.  I'd already had my last day of course so this was my final farewell.

I was quite keen to go back as well to see what I could get up to.

It turned out to be a bit of a party actually, we had a bouncy castle, loads of outdoor games to play, music and a good turnout of my friends and their mums and dads as well as the nursery ladies.

There was even some running races, which I loved of course:

There were parents races too, Dad put in a respectable performance, as did Mum, at least she didn't fall over like some of the other mums.

I decided against the cloak and mortar board we had been made and went in a more casual style to pick up my certificate from my favourites Claire Bear and Jenny:

After the presentation the old gang got together for a few pictures, my posing was causing quite a stir:

From left to right-Luca (sitting down, going to my school), Poppy, Ella, Neeve (going to my school), Eva, Lois and my good self.  We had some lunch and some more games in the playground before saying our goodbyes.  I think Mum almost managed to not have a cry again.

We went over to Waitrose to get some lunch and bumped into Auntie Christine and Uncle Ian.  We put our food order in for later in the week when she was going to look after us again.

After lunch we had a wander down the park, I rode my bike really well.

I walked, I hate wearing my crash helmet so i'd rather not ride my bike at all.  Ben from school was down there and I think he was pretty pleased to see me.  We took off and climbed trees at the other end of the field.

And I ride my bike loads.

We got packed off to bed before Alan and Owen came round to play their geeky board games in the evening, I was so gutted.

Sunday was party day again fo r me, this time for Lois' birthday at Krazy Klub.  I helped mum wrap the present and wrote the card myself.

While they were at the party Dad and I went bowling.  I found it a bit of an ordeal really, I tried my hardest but Dad gave me a total stuffing.  I was really pleased with my one strike...until he got five!  The arcade machines were great fun though, I whooped him on the motorbike one, drew at air hockey and managed to make a quid last a very long tme indeed on the 10p falls (even if we didn't win the Haribo's teetering over the edge).  We went to a bike shop afterwards to try me for size on a mountainbike.  I hope 'Father Christmas' brings me one this year.....

We had a great time at the party, even if I didn't want to join in the musical chairs until half way through.  Apparently you can't do that.  I helped Ella overcome her fear of the slide though by holding her hand as we went down together though.

Monday was a bank holiday of course, but Mum went to work anyway, she says it was because she could then have wednesday off to look after us.  Dad reckons she just wanted a rest after having a week off with us.

We took her to work and went straight to Victoria park.  We stayed for over an hour an had a great time.

Mum only worked a short day, so we soon went to pick her up and Dad insisted on having a barbecue before we run out of 'summer'

Luckily he cooked the food outside and then bought it in, it wasn't a very nice day really for sitting outside.

I was forced, once again to go out after tea for a bloomin' walk.  I can't see the point but Mum, Dad and Ellis seem to love it?

Well if you hadn't guessed we've been on our holidays.
To Cornwall of course.
But going back to before that we've got a bit to catch up on.
I rode my scooter all the way to nursery again on Tuesday, well until it started raining and I took to the buggy for cover.
In the afternoon we went to the park, we all took our bikes so it was perfect for me to spend some time riding Ellis' tiny little bike as well as Dad's massive mountain bike.  He couldn't believe I could ride it, it wasn't long until I was challenging my friends down there to races and blowing them away on it.
Thusday was a big day for me, my last day at nursery.  How about that?  I wasn't too worried about it all really, just another day at nursery.  Doesn't seem to have applied to Mum or indeed Claire-Bear though when she dropped me off, they thought they'd mark the occasion with a bit of a cry.  Bless them eh?  Even Dad got a bit worked up when he came to pick me up, we both got a cuddle from Claire-Bear before we left and a whole load of photographs and my artwork that i'd produced over the years.
I had my last day at Multi Sports too, got a cool certifiacte and finally got to watch my film choice (even though it was a really short film, which I think caught Mr Gillam out a bit).
Alan was looking after us on Friday and we were all set to go to JJ's.
My total highlight, i've been asking to go for ages so I was super excited about this one.
But it all went a bit wrong when we realised Dad had taken our car seats to work with him.
Big disappointment, so we stayed in, watched telly and played Wii and Pokemon!  Not so bad after all.
We went to the park too!
Once Dad was back we had to get busy packing the car for hoilday, I helped him plenty.  Well, I thought it was helpful anyway.
I carried on probing Alan for Pokemon knowledge.
So once we had picked Mum up from work and she'd got changed we were on our way!  We met up with Andy and Owen before we set headed off west, it was all rather exciting.
Yeah, we couldn't wait to go and see Gary in his shop.
We stopped at Exeter services on the way down, a much more pleasureable experience since a branch of the Pasty shop has opened there.
Once we were sat down and tucking into our supper Alan and Hayley turned up, soon to be followed by Kimi and Marney as well.  Quite a get together it turned out to be.
We got back into our cars refuelled and ready for the rest of our journey.  Well, we fell asleep pretty much before we re-joined the motorway anyway.
Before we knew it, it was Saturday morning and time for stroll to see the sea and of course pay a visit to Gary's shop.
As well as get aquianted with the Flack's who were staying just down the field in A16.
This of course meant Darcey!!!  I was soooo excited.
Once we'd helped the Tesco man unload our weeks worth of supplies we hit the beach:

Plenty of digging to be done of course, picnics to eat....

And for me, swimming, loads of swimming, all around the rock pools between the rocks and what have you.  I loved it.  I also developed a taste for tombstoning as well:

We bought some new nets, first catch a particularly unruly Ellis fish:

We got buried in the sand:

We surfed, sometimes even venturing out of the rock pools and into the open sea:

There were plenty of oppurtunities for some Darcey cuddle action:

Yup, there most certainly was:

I even got to push her all the way around Constantine Bay and back on an evening walk:

I loved that and did a very good job.

I did a good job of posing for photo's:

We went to Tintagel, the gift shops were amazing, more tut than even Ellis and I could ever want.  Loads of wizard stuff, dragons and crystals and what have you.

But best of all, temporary tattoo's!  A collection of lovely girly ones for me.

And a set of kick ass dragon ones for me, to match my cool shorts.

The castle itself was down a massive hill, it was a nice walk down.  We stopped at the bottom for a brief picnic and a discussion of battle tactics and how you might defend or attack such a position.

We sat and looked out to sea:

We headed on back down from the castle with the ominous thought of a long hard slog back up the hill hanging over us:

But there was no need to worry as we decided to treat ourselves to a Land Rover trip back up.

This was probably my highlight of the week, the driver was really friendly and it was just brilliant when he put his foot down and we had a right old zoom on!

We went Karting with John and Sarah, which was really exciting.  I don't know what went faster though, the go-karts or my jaw chattering non stop with excitement before we got on.

Once again I was too little to have a go, but I wasn't that worried, I did some Ellis style skateboarding (check the video out):

I loved it almost as much as I loved talking about it:

It was great fun having John, Sarah, Andy, Owen and Mum to race around, even if I did get bumped on the last corner of the last lap and ended up stuck in the tyres pointing the wrong way.  Dad was particularly proud of one of my manouvers, after I kept the accelerator full on despite nearly running out of track on a pretty wide overtake.

There was a bit of a change of pace for a visit to Springfields pony centre.

Ice creams, we love ice creams, especially in cornwall:

 

And of course once all the parks had been played in, the slides slid down, the boats rowed and the pedal cars pedalled there was the pony riding.

Yes indeed there was, I was pretty much as excited as I had been about the Karting for this one truth be told:

Here I am onboard 'Cobweb'

And here I am on 'Candy'  The most massive of all the 'ponies' they have. I was really pleased about that, even if it was a long way up:

We had a lovely wander around the woodlands for about half an hour in the sunshine, a lovely trip round it was.

I took to completing my beauty regime under the outdoor 'surfers' shower on the way back from the beach:

We went for a walk to the lighthouse you can see from the caravan at night time, it was surprisingly nice, even if you couldn't actually get into the lighthouse itself:

Conclusive proof that I have mastered the art of flip flop wearing:

I have made a claim to having the biggest mouth in Cornwall:

Beach racing, I love running, running and indeed racing on the beach is even better:

I had plenty of takers too, the best being Laura it has to be said.

Sandcastles don't just build themselves you know....

...Dad builds them and then I take the glory!

Then there was my new favourite game, Uno.  The Flacks were always playing so i'd sneak over to their van as often as I could get to get a game.  If they weren't around though, Mum would have to do:

 And then to finish off the week it was another great big sandy creation, we were particularly proud of this one:

Other highlights of our week included my new favourite flavour ice cream, toffee fudge.

Me managing to get our inflatible boat stuck on the other side of the low tide cave (I wedged the string between two rocks to stop it drifting away and it wouldn't come back out).  It was a great oppurtunity for Dad and Owen to get all Bear Grylls and saw through it with sharp stones.

The sheer volume of home made baking on offer, from the efforts we made before we left, to the lovely lemon drizzle that Mrs Shepherd left for us in the fridge of the caravan and uncle Ian's lavish chocolate birthday cake.  Not to mention the ones from Gary's shop! 

My loud shout of 'Praying Mantis' from my bed during a grown ups game of Pictionary.  I think Andy was trying to draw a wasp, but I got closer than any of the players, not to mention giving everyone a real good laugh.

And of course there was the Uno, my new favourite card game, one that on the whole I don't get stroppy about losing as i'm happy to have a go at Andys record bad score (somewhere in the region of 190 I think?).

Anyway, thanks to everyone that came along and made it such a cool time, hopefully see you all again down there next year!