We broke up for Christmas on the Tuesday.  It was a tough day at school, eating what was left of the party food and playing games until lunchtime when we got to go home.

Except I didn't go home, I went to my friend Evelyn's house instead.

And while she was gone Dad and I did Lego, and played Tony Hawks Pro-Skater on the playstation.

It was the first time i'd been home with a friend to play after school and I loved it.  Evelyn had a lovely little doggie to play with and an older brother who produced art work to order (my dragon is now stck to the dishwasher).

When we arived to pick her up it seemed most of John Rankin school was hanging out there, cool.  Even better was having a play on the drum kit...we took some shifting to go home!

Mum had gone out for another work do so we picked up a few bits and bobs from Waitrose for tea (including some last minute chocolate tree decorations) and headed home to watch a bit of worlds strongest man on telly before bed.

Mum had Wednesday morning off with us, we had a lovely lazy time. 

We picked her up from work in the evening and had to go Christmas food shopping.  We were remarkably good this year.

Even if Mum tired of the whole thing very quickly and wanted to get home.

She had all day off with us on Thursday.  We went to see my old friend Ron in the morning but he was out which was a shame. 

Once Dad was home we went to the cinema to watch Arthur Christmas.

After a brief confrontation with a woman who accused Dad of sitting in her seats (turns out her tickets were for the previous day) we settled in to watch the film with another huge portion of John Rankin kids who just so happened to be sitting in the row in front.

The film was brilliant and we really loved it.

After that we went out for tea, to Pizza Express.  I really loved it, garlic dough balls, Pizza's and glass bottles of coke.

I didn't, wouldn't eat a dough ball and my bolognese wasn't spaghetti, just rubbish normal pasta.

We've added another job to the bedtime regime with the introduction of hot water bottles, here's my seasonal effort:

I started all this off when Den and Gail came to visit and bought me a lovely massive cat hot water bottle.  He's proper snuggly.

Mum took us round to Auntie Christines on Friday morning, we had a job to finish off, decorating her christmas cake.

We did a lovely job of course.  Dad met up with us when he had finished work for christmas but he hadn't won anything in the raffle to share with us (some sweets or biscuits would have been good).

Then it was Christmas eve, with the levels of excitement peaking nicely.

We had our annual group outing to the pub, there was a magnificent turnout this year.

Us kids had a great time, the weather was pretty good so we could play out in the garden as well in the pool and darts room, with it's lovely chalkboard:

Once we were home we had to track Santa on NORAD of course and make a few last minute preparations for the big day.

There was also the matter of leaving a little something for Santa and Rudolph and putting the santa please stop here sign outside.  Neither of which went particularly well.

Yeah, first off the new santa cake stand we'd bought toppled over and broke and then Mum tried to bang the santa sign in using a brick...which obvioulsy didn't end too well.

Dad was not amused at all:

And then it was the big day!

We didn't even get up until nearly 8 o'clock.

Even though i'd woken up every hour on the hour most of the night.  Or so I was claiming anyway.

First job was to get the stocking emptied and their contents opened:

If the stockings were anything to go by, the main event around the tree was going to be amazing.

Yeah, the stockings were great, so good in fact that I didn't even venture downstairs for a sneaky look for ages.

But eventually we did make our way downstairs:

Yes, there were plenty of things to open and get excited about:

Even Mum and Dad opening there boring old peoples stuff wasn't that much of a chore this year (maybe because Mum had so much Lindor....)

This year saw a lot of Christmas loose ends tidied up, firstly there was the game Pig Goes Pop which i'd been after for at least three years:

As well as the chocolate coin makers we'd been after for a good while.

Thats not to say all our other stuff wasn't totally brilliant of course as it was.

Yeah, all of it!

Then of course there was my massive tube of Jaffa Cakes:

Auntie Trish was coming round for a 'sleep over' so we were well excited when she turned up, she'd made a real effort and looked very well turned out.

Especially with the sackfull of goodies she'd bought with her too (not all of which were bottles of red wine either).

Soon after Alan and Hayley turned up too, we were all set for lunch: 

Of course we'd eaten a fair amount of chocolates so we weren't that fussed about dinner to be honest.

No, we picked at a few little bits and pieces but that was about as far as it went.

Dad must have decided to have a day off from nagging us about what we hadn't eaten as well which was a result as it meant we could concentrate on pudding.

Since there was no Great Grandma the decision was made to not have a Christmas Pudding this year as no one else really likes it.

This years centrepiece was to be our chocolate yule log (expertly made with precision by Mum rather than thrown in a bowl and mixed up by Dad).

It was Ellis' and myself's job to decorate it of course with the truly magnificent cake decorations that Auntie Christine had managed to get for us after we couldn't find any, ANYWHERE!

Auntie Christine, Saviour of Christmas dinner...hooray!

Aside from a small squabble over 'artistic differences' we did a pretty good job I reckon.

Yeah, Ned banned the slightly grumpy looking snowman and a sign bearing the word 'Xmas':

Of course with the lack of Christmas pud we had nothing to set fire to at the table.  Dad wasn't too happy about this and dug a left over sparkler out of the garage to shove in the chocolate log.

A great idea in principle...except that it sparked all over his lemon tart and stunk the house out with thick grey smoke.

Even with the aid of my brussel sprout lunch, the whoopee cushion took a right old battering, the first present casualty, lasting only until lunchtime:

Grandad and Anne arrived after dinner, it's always lovely to see them, especially at Christmas as Grandad makes a great target for screwed up balls of wrapping paper!

Quite by accident we ended up with a girls and a boys sofa.  Our girls one looked nicer and smelled nicer than the boys one of course.  We settled down and watched the Gruffalo's child for half an hour:

Then the telly was off and it was time for tea.

Didn't eat much of that either, ha ha.

Then it was time for a few games, first off it was a Yahtzee lesson with Auntie Trish:

And when Owen and Laura came round games reached a whole new level with Doggie Doo.

You load the dog's mouth with food, and then throw the dice to squeeze the handle, with each squeeze comes a very satisfying farting sound.

And after enough squeezes the food become a poo and drops out of the dogs bottom, first one with three poo's is the winner:

This saw us quite nicely up to bedtime.

We got to go off to our normal beds while Auntie Trish got to have the exclusive and seasonal 'pine scented' bedroom (the lounge on a sofa).  I let her have my lovely Hello Kitty fleece blanket.

Boxing day, a time to digest what had gone on and spend some time with our new stuff.

As well as having a visit from Den and Gail too.

There was a lot of Lego built.

Quite bit of  slouching about too.

We said goodbye to Trish who finally went over the edge and couldn't take any more, thanks for coming!

I cracked the whip for Dad to finish my Ninjago temple while the rest of us watched my diary of a wimpy kid DVD:

Dad and I had a quick trip down the park just before it got dark, I wanted to take my newly adorned bike out with my camera and cuddly toys in the basket:

Coconut loved going down the slide!

After two days solid in the house, Mum broke ranks and escaped to work on Tuesday.

We had a lazy morning and then ventured out to meet her at lunchtime for some proper decent food at last...McDonalds.

Once lunch was done and dusted we headed to the skatepark at Greenham to try out my new board and super cool new helmet:

I also took my tennis racket and cool coloured tennis balls to have a whack about with, I loved it:

I'm not so sure Dad did though as he had to keep running accross the field to retrieve the balls i'd hit.

I took my scooter for the skatepark and my football for the field.  Dad did a good job a retrieving that too.

Auntie Christine came round with Laura and Darcey later on, that was lovely of course.

It was, it also made sure the next few years of entertainment have been covered with Mario and Sonic at the 2012 Olympics for the Wii:

On Wednesday we had another park outing with my fully loaded basket.

And another tennis wacking session, it's made my arm hurt actually.

And we also tried out our chocolate coin makers:

The results were surprisingly professional actually, but the best bit was licking the containers clean of course:

On Thursday it was a second trip to the cinema.  This time for Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 - Chipwrecked! 

We loved it of course and this time we didn't have to argue with anyone about our seats.

In the afternoon we had to watch the Darts on the telly because there were a few reprobates we know that went.

We watched for ages but only caught occasional glimpses of them.

I gave Dad a special treat by agreeing to go shopping with him in the evening.  It was great actually, we looked at cool stuff and I made sure we got loads of proper food like Pepperami and square crisps.

Friday the call was made, it was ice skating time.  I was really pleased about this, i'd been going on about it for ages as I remembered we went last year.

I did not want to .  No.  Not at all.  Not for me.  I took this photo on my super smart new camera before we went in, while we all still had full use of our limbs and didn't need any crutches:

Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't have been so hasty to go.  Dad fell on me during one fall which I managed to shrug off but the second fall involving Andy had me in tears and carried of the ice by the attendant.

While Ellis was having a mare, I was loving it.  I was doing laps and laps on my own, not even holding onto the sides either.

After a quick time out, I was back on it, this time flanked by two minders: 

Things went well, but would have gone better if maybe i'd been more interested in actually skating rather than performing ballet moves as we shuffled around.

Andy had decided to take on camera duties instead:

So thats skating taken care of for another year and hopefully Andy is mobile again.

That takes us up to New Years Eve then.

Yup, another low key day, just another trip to the park where we enjoyed a few early fireworks in the fading daylight.

And of course another tennis wackathon.

In the evening we went to Abi and Fayes house, along with Kimi and Marney as well as all the associated grown ups.

The little ones are all quite mad, I did my best to avoid them, ha ha.

One by one we all crashed out in various parts of the house.

Until only I was awake, it had turned 2012 and we were celebrating by playing Rat-A-Tat cat (a card game).  We had two games, I won them both, schooling all the grown ups.  I don't think i'll be allowed to play again....

After a monster lie in on new years day we had a burst of energetic fun with Mum's Just Dance 3 game on the Wii.

Apart from a few near misses it was great fun, even if we did find it a bit tiring.

Mum was back to work on Monday so we took her out for lunch again, this time to the pub.

It couldn't come soon enough for me either, due to an administration error, i'd had no breakfast!!!

We had a play on victoria park afterwards, we really love it down there, even when it is cold and muddy!

That brings us up to a our traditional monday cut off point for updates I think?  Things seem to go a bit haywire over Christmas and we don't have any idea what day it really is.

Anyway, we'd like to say a really massive thank you to everyone we've seen over the Christmas period, for the company, the presents, the food and the drink and wish you all a happy new year!

We had our junior school carol concert at a big church in town on Tuesday afternoon.  We were pretty much the last class to arrive (we had to walk all the way from school).  Mum and Dad had both turned up and hidden at the back, I reckon they must have known about the year three guitar recital and taken suitable evasive action.  Once it was done and dusted we had to walk all the way back to school.  I didn't mind, I got to walk with Mrs Douglas and we had a good old chat.

It was my last week of swimming, which meant fun week.

And the one week of the term I was jealous of Ellis' swimming lesson.

We had balls, hoops, big floating mats and also swimming teachers with a hose pipe.  Because it wasn't a proper lesson I could play with Neave as we.  Mum topped it off nicely by turning up to watch.

It was also my last dancing lesson on Wednesday.  The three youngest that took exams each got a special medal awarded to us and everyone who had passed their exam got a really smart looking certificate.  As if that wasn't enough we also got a little present as well.  We got to show the grown ups our small group dance we had to do for the exam as well, which was obviously a treat for them.

It was all rush rush rush after dancing.  We had to eat tea and get me to school for  six o'clock for the opening night of our school play, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

I wasn't allowed to go, so Owen came round to keep me company.  We had a cool time, well I did, not sure how he felt after i'd talked at him for nealy two hours non stop.

The play itself went very well.  My class all had a part of wedding guests (as well as general singers of course). 

I really got into character and enjoyed the dancing too:

Here we all are, 3HD enjoying our own little finale:

It really was great fun and we all did really well. It was also pretty cool because Mum and Dad sat right on the front row do I got to give them a cheeky wave or two.

Massive excitement on Thursday, we got letters from the actual real father christmas.

Yeah, he seemed to know a LOT, even our friends names?

I had another performance on Thursday night, I was pretty tired out by the end of it to be honest.

Friday night we finally went and got ourselves a christmas tree.

About time too, even my teacher thought it was too long to wait.  In fact my only requirement for this years tree was that it was to be taller than Mrs. Douglas.

I loved being greeted by the singing dancing Santa on the way in:

So we selected this one in about thirty seconds and then turned our attention to the man running trees through the bagging machine:

We put it into the back of the car bteween our seats and made for McDonalds, well, it was too late to start cooking.

We had to frop Dad off at the pub for his work Christmas party as well, we knew Saturday morning wasn't going to be action packed.

No it wasn't, we had a very  lazy day and watched Wall E, which was universally liked.

We headed over to Grandad and Anne's for tea as a late birthday party for him and an early christmas party for all of us.

It was rather good as well, we had party poppers and crackers.

I did loads of colouring with Dad.

And I drilled Alan for histoy facts.

Never ones to rush anything the Christmas tree went up on Sunday.

Everything went up very smoothly as well, no drama's with the tree falling over or anything:

The net from the tree made a rather good wedding veil/train when attached to my head with hair grips:

Even Poppy got caught up in the Christmas spirit:

Once we'd emptied the box of decorations onto the tree it was time for the cherub to take her place at the top:

I was made to go to the stupid park in the afternoon because of Ellis.

Sorry Ned but I really wanted to go, even if I did run Mum over on my bike and it may have been really freezing cold.

We helped Mum make some chocolate brownie, we didn't make any mess of course and it all ran really smoothly:

Once the bowl was well and truly empty, Ned let me finish licking duties:

We decided to pose for a seasonal shot with the cat as well:

 We had to finish of writing our cards too:

Monday was pretty cool at school, we had our visiting pantomime performance of Ali Baba. I loved it, even if it was only in the hall.  After that it was party time. I didn't think it much of a party though really, there was no dancing?  Just eating.  I was also told not to wear my party shoes outside by Mum on the morning but seeing as we had a fire alarm I had to make an exception.

We also had our paty today as well, I was much more happy with the school definition of a party.  The cakes that Dad bought me to take along went down a storm and I even helped the grown ups set the food up during lunchtime.

Well I got my swimming report back and i've passed level one with flying colours, roll on level 2 when I get a yellow swimming hat and go in the deep end of the swimming pool. 

Hmmm, yeah great, I get to resume my lessons as well after Christmas, deep joy. 

We'll both be in the pool at the same time as well, but in different pools.

I don't know how Dad will manage to watch us both.

Dancing was back on this week and Mrs Groves had bought us all a pair of tap dancing shoes to wear.  How exciting!  The noise levels were certainly up while we tried them all for size.  

I was glad to leave them to it and do reading in the car, even though it gets dark very early at the moment and we have to have the lights on in the car.

I'm making quit a swift exit from school most nights now so I can get a bit of a go on the skateboard before it gets too dark.  All my practice paid off when  managed to pull very first ollie last week (when you pop the board up into the air).

We went to the Anvil to see the Panto with the school on Thursday morning.  I sat with Tom on the coach and i'd made sure I had loads of sweets to take with me.  The show itself was really brilliant, especially when Peter Pan flew out over the audience dropping glittery bits on us all.  Even silly Jake couldn't put me off with his endless chair kicking from behind.

We did our nativity play last week, a practice on wednesday then a real show on Thursday and Friday mornings.  Mum and Dad came on Friday morning and sat on the wrong side of the hall, I told them where to sit and it made perfect sense to me?  Anyway, it didn't matter too much.  They loved it of course:

And here's my close up, Ellis the 'Binky' (Innkeeper):

 I broke ranks at the end to go and give Mum a cuddle before I had to go back to class.
We got put to work on friday afternoon after school, making pigs in blankets for christmas:

We got them all nicely rolled and tucked away in the freezer, we can't wait to eat them!
We had a lay in on Saturday morning, playing christmas snap in Mum and Dad's bed.
Once we'd finally surfaced we got dragged to the beach.  Reluctantly.
But of course, once we got there we loved it!
We had chips on the seafront at the Witterings:

Took in the fresh sea air:

And of course, collected some rock samples:

Does this remind you of anyone?

We had a trip to the surf shop too of course.
And then we headed home for Sue to come around and babysit.  She has also joined the club of not reading Harry Potter, but we'll forgive her as she'd come out in a bit of a rush and forgotten her reading glasses.
I had Milly's party on Sunday morning.  It was good, there was a bouncy castle and massive dance floor for me to perform my moves.  The catering wasn't to my liking though, hot dogs (yuck), Flump sweets (yuck) and birthday cake with jam in it (yuck).
I was quite happy to take the cake of her hands....
We went to Rich, Oli and Joshuas on Sunday afternoon for a bit of a gethering with all the gang.  It was great fun, Max and I made ourselves at home and tucked into the impressive spread.
And I played with the younger ones, the wooden railway was a particular favourite.  As well as nearly one years old Finley!
Back to school today and we're getting bucketloads of cards.
I had a rather interesting one from Tilly, which she chose to inform me that she hated me with. Nice I thought?  Anyway, it got intercepted by one of the teaching assistants so we'll see what happens there.  We do generally manage to wind each other up though....

I had my last week of school swimming lessons...yay!  It was fun week as well so I quite enjoyed it.  The bad news is that i have to go back to proper lessons, after school one evening as week.  Re-enrolment isn't for a little while though so i'll have a few weeks off.

I had my assesment week and quite honestly if I haven't passed with flying colours it will be the biggest shock of the year so far.

I was so glad the teachers were on strike on Wednesday, especially after Ellis had her day off for teacher training the other week.  I got to spend the day with Auntie Christine.  We went to Sainsbury's of course and I discovered the joys of the coin counting and changing machine, my new obsession!

I got to go to school as usual, but dancing wasn't on in the afternoon as the school that it's at was closed.  I was pretty disappointed about that.  Seeing as we'd made the effort to go all the way over to Thatcham, we thought we'd make the best of it and go through the car wash!  Great fun.

The advent calendars came out on Thursday...yay!

Yeah, it was all very exciting, of course there was also the fairy truck and penguin drawers for the little chocolate deposits.

I seem to have got this years crackpot calendar, the first door contained a rather odd looking mouse on ice skates.

We had a surprise trip to Reading on Friday afternoon to rescue Uncle Alan after the train network ground to a halt.

It was great actullay, we sang Frank Turner songs all the way there and then grilled Alan mercilessly all the way home again.

We had another low key weekend, which is suiting us just fine at the moment.

Saturdays main event was the Christmas fete at school.  This was the first time it had been on a Saturday so it was great that Mum could come along, even if she did volunteer to help out on the tombola stall:

It was the best stall at the fete by a mile.

It was so easy to win a big jar of sweets (and it wasn't just because mum let us cheat or anything either).

We made sure we gave her plenty of help, until we decided we ought to go and have a proper look around.

We did the outdoor treasure hunt which we loved.

I got to show Dad and Ned my classroom:

There was all sorts of fun and games in the queue to see Santa. Ned's friends Ella and Tilly thought it was hilarious that Charlie was my boyfriend. They said I should give him a kiss, so I did. We also got to meet Charlies Dad who was oblivious to the whole situation, I think Mum filled him in.

Anyway, after all that nonsesne we got to see Santa: 

I asked for a 3DS.

And I asked for some cars, which surprised everyone I think. If truth be told, it surprised me a little too. Then it was face painting time, Rudolph anyone?

When we got home we watched Pocahontas, this weeks DVD club offering.

For the first week ever, everyone stayed awake throught the whole thing, I don't know what that says about the film?
Sunday we had to go out for a walk.
As usual, we were in a frenzy of excitement to go out...NOT! I almost had to go naked as I refused to get dressed.
And as usual, we loved it as soon as we were there.
Especially as we took a route that billed itself as being super muddy....it was as well:

We found cool little bridges, great big sticks to wave about and super slurpy mud that got your feet stuck and tried to steal your wellies...great fun!

Swimming's getting a bit boring now really.  I'm starting to find it all a bit of chore and i'd rather muck about with my friend Neave who's in the next class up.  Having said that, i'm still really trying when it's the difficult bits, I like the challenge!
I've started taking my DS while Ellis is in the pool so she can have as many swimming lessons as she likes.
Mum upset me the other night, can't remember what it was about but it was obviously something majorly serious as i'm not onbe to over-react and flounce off in tears...no, of course i'm not, not at all.  Anyway, I was sent to my room so decided to let my feelings known.  You can see how angry I was by my scruffy handwriting:

That showed her!  Well, it did when she worked out what it was supposed to say and i'd corrected a few spelling mistakes.

Dancing on Wednesday was brilliant, now we dodn't have an exam to work towards we could have a lot more fun and indulge in all sorts of dancing.  We also got the results of our exams, our teacher Mrs Groves was really pleased with us.  So pleased in fact that she says that as a class we'd got the highest marks she'd ever had.  How cool is that?  Here's my report from the exam anyway:

Dad particularly likes the comment next to exercise number 6!

The christmas lights were being switched on in town on friday afternoon, we always like to go along to this.

Yeah, we do indeed.

So we waited in town patiently....

Until the lit up fairy stilt walkers came along, I really love them and quite fancy it as a job myself one day:

Then Santa came along on his horse drawn carriage, he gave us a wave so we followed him up the street:

The countdown actually worked this year, and when we reached one the lights really did come on!

They did, and they were rather nice too as it goes:

We bumped into my teacher Mrs Douglas and my old teacher Mirs Fright which was really cool.  We had a chat and she was shocked to see I wasn't wearing my coat...ha ha, I wish she'd get used to the idea that I don't wear coats!

The social whirlwind continued when we saw Slim and trace wandering accross the market place.

We got a sweet from the Mayor, but it was mega sticky, Mum got into a right mess with it.  Thanks for unwrapping them Mum..

It was deemed too late to go home and start cooking so Pizza Hut it was

Brilliant, no complaints from me thats for sure, well, only a small one.  I blindfolded myself with my coloured in Pizza Hut hat and asked mum to feed me my garlic bread with cheese.  She decided to feed me one of the chilies from her pizza instead, heavy with seeds!  I gave it a good old chew as well, before my mouth caught fire.  I saw the funny side straight away and had to cool down with ice cream factory.

I went to the school mum's bacon butty morning.  We did some cool arts and crafts sruff and I ate Mum's bacon butty before getting one of my own and eating that too.

Dad and I went up the woods on the mountainbikes.  We didn't find many jumps but it was lovely to be out in the countryside and the fresh air.

We watched the Princess and the frog in the afternoon, well, I did, everyone else had a snooze at various points.

Then it was saturday night and the biggest event of the year, Gosport BMX tclub presentation evening!  Time to see if my season long effort was going to pay off.

Even though I hadn't done any racing it was a great night out, there was a childrens magician on stage first.  He was pretty funny as it goes.

Once he was done, it was on with the main event..the trophies!!!!  I narrowly missed out on the overall first place by half a point after six races (the sores for another round that I had won had gone missing otherwise, I would have been the top dog).  Still, as it was Charlie who had won I didn't mind at all:

We also got a number plate to use next season, so I need to decide whether to have my number 2 plate or keep my Lightning Mcqueen inspired 95 and keep my new one to put up on the wall in my room.  One thing's for sure, the girls love you when you have a big old trophy to parade about with, even if it is only Ellis:

And Mum:

So here's first and second place together, looking very pleased with ourselves.  We can't wait until next year to do it all over again!

While all the trophy excitement the magician was still hanging about, making balloon models, the swords were a great hit and pretty soon the whole place was awash with duelling kids!  I got well stuck in with the boys but was really rather taken with my wrist mounted ladybird:

We headed home, and my trophy love affair began in earnest, it got cuddled all the way home and then taken to bed that night.  I may have mentioned once or twice how pleased I was with it.
We went to Auntie Christines early doors on Sunday, it couldn't come soon enough for me, i'd been counting down how many sleeps it was sonce wednesday!
Hmm, Mum and Dad always seem to have a day out at this time of year, I don't know what it is they find to do?
We had a lovely day of course, Auntie Trish turned up, as did Laura, Darcey, Owen, and Uncle Slim and Auntie Trace.
We stayed for tea and everything, which turned out to be a good money earner, eating brussel sprouts for money.
I quite liked them actually.
Dad was disgusted with us both.
I took my trophy and number plate to school on Monday, I enjoyed being a celeb for the day.  Everyone wanted a look at it and I even got to show it off in assembly to the whole school.  I'm still cuddling it a lot......

There was a rather amusing event at school last week, Corey managed to find a picture of a lady with her boobies out in one of the newspapers donated for art.  Caused quite a stir that did.

It was parents evening on Wednesday, which is good because Andy comes round for tea so we generally get something nice.

WIth a proper pudding and everything.

It was my first proper one since starting school.  My teacher, Miss Zimmerman says that i'm really keen to get stuck in and have made loads of new friends. 

I got a mostly positive report as well, I need to work on reading but my writing is going okay.  I'm good at science and maths and apparently Gifted at art!  Cool.

We had a sneaky trip to Tesco on friday after school, I had to get Neave a birthday present and card.

And I had some of my pocket money to spend, desperate for another Lego Ninjago figure.

We also got to pick ourselves our own tea as a treat.

I picked a poopy seed baugette to have with some tomato soup.

And I went for a sausage roll and Hello Kitty tinned pasta shapes.

I'm not sure Jamie Olive oil would approve.

Swimming at the Coral Reef on saturday morning, that was my idea.

Yeah, it was good fun actually.  I got to show off how well i've been doing on my school swimming lessons and have a really good session getting used to my goggles.

And I got to show Mum all my cool floating and what have you that i've been learning.

But best of all, both myself and Dad found a quid in a locker!  I invested mine straight away in Sainsbury's on the way back securing a Pokemon egg!

We got home for a late lunch and then watched Ratatouille on DVD.

Sunday was my first dancing exam, which seems weird as I think I might pack it in.  Anyway, had to have my hair tied up and everything:

I decided I wanted everyone to come along with me for moral support, even thoug I wasn't in the least bit worried about doing it.

I didn't mind going along with her, I sat and played my Transformers game on my DS:

I was really excited when we got there and met up with my dancing friends.  I couldn't wait to get my dancing shoes on for a warm up in the waiting room.  Our teacher took us into the hall for our dance, she even did it with us.  It was a shame that my posse of supporters weren't allowed in to watch.  I think I did really well but we'll find out on Wednesday when I go to dancing again.
It was really all about Ellis on Sunday, she had Neaves party in the afternoon as well!
Yeah, it was brilliant, I wore one of my princess dresses as well so I was looking super cool.  As well as my school friends a load of ly old friends from nursery were there too, it was brilliant.  There was a bouncy castle, games to play and loads of art and craft stuff to make and do.  To top it off there were even cheese rolls!
And what did Dad and I do while they were out?  Take the big wheeled mountain bikes out for a ride.  We stopped of at the local jumps for a bit and got ambushed by Hugo, Matice and their Dad who were out on manouvers while Luca was at Neaves party.  We carried on riding, bumping into them every now and again as we carried on riding right out through some lovely countryside to a cool farmers bridge over the A34.  The cars really zoomned underneath and we got a few waves and toots from some of the traffic.  Dad spiled it a bit by getting a puncture meaning a walk home for him.  I remarked to Dad how nice it was not to have Ellis chirpsing off all the time, but as soon as she came home it was hugs a plenty!!!
We had Max and Leo round after school on Monday.
Max and I went off to the park on our own on bikes, I was pretty chuffed about being able to do that!
Leo and I made a really cool train track with the wooden railway.
Then when we got rained on we came home and Max showed me some cool computer games on the internet.  Older friends are cool....