We went out for a walk after tea on Tuesday, I love going out for a wander after tea.
I don't, I hate it, I whinged all the way round....thank goodness we didn't go far.
I've got a proper chapter book as my reading book from school now, my first one.  It's about monsters.  I read three chapters in the car with Dad while Ellis was dancing but got distracted by a load of year five girls who were also at the school for a netball match.  They kept on waving at me through the window of the car.
We've got a few new girls in dance class now, so i'm kind of one of the old ones now.
I had a rubbish day at school on Thursday. I got told off by everyone for everything, I actually ended up in tears at one point as it got to me in the end. 
Friday was a bit better though, Mum helped me take out my wobbly tooth at long last, so that was the tooth fairy visit pencilled in for that evening.
After swimming lessons of course.  We're getting near the end of the course now so our teacher had her clipboard out to do marking.
Yeah, so did ours.  I made sure I tried my hardest all the way through as I really want to put an end to swimming lessons once and for all.
We took Ned and dropped him off at his school disco on Friday night, it was supposed to be a nice oppurtunity for the rest of us to go out on a lovely whinge free walk.  Trouble was that when we got to the hall the hall the thumping music and flashing lights were such a temptation I suddenly didn't want to go for a walk anymore, I wanted to go dancing.
Sadly Ellis, it was juniors only so tough luck.  We had a great time of course and I even bought Ellis a packet of sweets with my own money to try and soften the blow for her.
We had a day out on Saturday, it's been a while hasn't it?
Monkey World as well. 
Brilliant, far enough away to have a bit of a kip in the car on the way too!
Aside from the monkeys, there are of course loads of playgrounds:

Sadly I wasn't walways quite as good as the monkeys at climbing: 

The Orang's were really lovely, especially this one at the bottom who loved his blankie just like me:

He walked round like a ghost, he was rally funny and seemed to be really enjoying making everyone laugh.

After a massive amount of petitioning we were finally allowed our picnic.

We had to wait until almost twelve o'clock....disgraceful!

After lunch it was off to see the Lemur's.

We love the Lemur's in their free range enclosure:

We were very quiet and gentle and managed to get quite close to them.

Not as close as my little friend here would have liked to have got to me though:

He followed me up and down the window seat, all the while clutching his little bit of salad that he was nibbling on.

Parks, did we mention that there were plenty of parks to play on?

Here I am on the 'Children over 8 years old' section of the playground:

There were some really good swings too, we could both go on this one together:

Blimey it went high though:

That was down to good pushing and a lot of screamed encouragement on our part though!
We headed back through the park, taking in the last few enclosures we'd not seen already.
The highlight being one of the chimps who decided that clapping his hands, waggling his lips and then banging on the glass to frighten unsuspecting passers by was a worthy form of entertainment.
I asked if we could just stay in this saturday night and have an early night.  Well it would make a change for once.  I got my wish after we'd watched some saturday night tv.
I dragged all my bedclothes downstairs on Sunday morning for a lengthy cuddle up session with Poppy and the TV.
I joined in when I got up.
Then I helped Mum and Dad with some gardening out the front.
While I played Cool Math Games on the computer.
We rode our bikes up to the Wash Common park in the afternoon.
We had a lovely climb/play/swing before heading home.
Where I decdied to have a proper good good bike crash riding back down the farmers field.
And I really let Dad down when I spent the whole descent talking to mum about Roundheads and Cavaliers instead of charging down the hill on my bike.
Back to school on Monday, the week has started well for me as i earned and extra two golden time minutes.
We had a visit from a real and proper author, Simon Murray who wrote the Icky Doo Dah books.  It was really good and i've been drawing some rather brilliant Icky Doo Dahs myself.  After school cross country club went well.  I came second (to a year six) at this weeks non-race-race.  Maxim's Mum who teaches us told Dad how well i'd run when he got there to pick me up. 

Yay we're back!
After a short lay off.
Lots to catch up on, better get going!
I had Jess' birthday party two Tuesdays ago.  Jess and I are really good friends at the moment so this was really exciting, especially as we'd had all day at school to work up to it as well.
We had to go and drop Ellis off before we even picked Mum up from work, I wanted to stay of course, well, it was at Eddie Katz!
Eddie Katz indeeed.  We love Eddie Katz.  I didn't give them a backwards glance and didn't even notice they'd left.
I did, we picked Mum up and then had to go to some really boring shops to kill time unti Ellis was ready to be picked up.  The only savng grace was that I got to see Louise, my friend from school eating her tea in Sainsbury's cafe.
It was a brilliant party of course.
At least I got to have a sneaky go on the blue slide when we went to pick Ellis up.
Fast forward to Friday then, the last day of term.  I was surprised to see Mum and Dad sat at the back of the hall when we went into Assembly.  I gave them a little wave of course and sat down...but not for long.  I was first one up to collect my special award..it was of course the end of term award assembly.  Mine was for 'Improvement in Reading' What an understatement! I'm all over this reading lark these days.  I got to stand up in front of the whole school and all the mums and dads with a massive grin on my face.
Friday night was party night, Alastair, Tegan and Tilly's disco party to be exact.  In the school hall too.
I managed to get an invite as well as a guest of Lola (Tegan's sister), I was so excited about it, Ned was not a happy boy though, I think he thought I might cramp his style or something?
Hmmmmm, it wasn't fair.  Still, as soon as we got there, Ellis started dancing and hassling older boys, leaving me to get on with having tattoos and eating sweets.  I managed to cause quite a stir with my dance moves too.  I got heavily paparrazzi'd during my perfomance and won several bags of cola bottles during the best dancer competition.
Indeed he did, he was pretty good actually.
When Dad came to pick us up he claimed he'd taught me everything I know of course....
We'd danced ourselves to a standstill and crashed out in the hall when we got in:

Bit of a strange one on Saturday....we had way more fun than we should have had.

Yeah, seeing as we went sofa shopping!

Apparently Ned and I don't generate quite as much mess as we used to so this is becoimg an actual possibility.

We went and looked at a few, I didn't like any of them.

I wasn't nearly so fussy and was quite happy to trial snuggle any of them.

Lunchtime was cool as well, we finally got to try out our pull down tables in the car in anger for our Marks and Spencer picnic. Two dry french bread rolls and some crisps for me.

Plain ham sandwich for me. Replenished, we went to some other furnitre shops, Dad helped break the tedium by giving us a variety of novelty carries and lifts.

Although the sofas with electric recliners were massive fun, but apparently we can't have one of those...booo.

We went over to Laura's house in the evening so the grown ups to could play cards.

Darcey had already turned in for the night which was a shame, nevertheless I had a great time with Faye and Abi making cosy beds on the floor.

We had a quiet sunday to get over our two late nights and the exciting events of the next couple of days.

The Auntie Christine sleepover no less.

Yes indeed, the first two days of the holidays were spent away from home.

We packed all our stuff up and dropped Mum off halfway to work.

Darcey was there too so that made up for not seeing her on Saturday night:

We did loads of cool stuff of course, including a trip to Eddie Katz to show Darcey the ropes!

I got to have a bath with her too, and got to snuggle into this towel that Ned reckons made me look like a smurf:

We'd packed our teddies of course:

Which we needed when we bedded down for the night. 

Ellis wont he argument to secure herself the ready bed when it dawned on me that I was too big for it nowadays:

So after a lovely sleep it was time for round two.  Equally cool with a trip to the park:

And the discovery centre:

We also played loads of cool board games (especially Sorry).

And of course there was the baking, amongst the loaves of bread and fairy cakes was my rather brilliant hedgehog cake:

Mum and Dad came to collct us on Tuesday night and quite honestly we weren't that fussed, they could have left us longer!

Yeah, we had a lovely time, thanks Auntie Christine, Uncle Ian, Laura and of course Darcey.

Mum had a day off with us Wednesday, we had a morning of lazing about and playing computer games.

We made a two tone jelly too!

And my request for the day was to go swimming, so as soon as dad was home from work we packed up and headed west to the Oasis.

We hadn't been for a while, it was great of course.

Last time we came the flume slides were having a bit of a makeover, this time they were all finished and I was raring to go.  Dad and I were the only ones to go on all three slides, two of them head first and the other was the new super fast and dark one.  I caused quite a stir going on it as everyone thought I was too little, the lifegaurd said I was okay to go on it though so I did.  Twice.

It was one the coolest water slides ever, it had clear dots at the top that looked like stars shooting past as you slid down and then a stripey section which made it look like you were going back in time or something.

We had a choice of holiday clubs for the last two days of the half term, either the one at school or Dragon club...we went for Dragon club.

Turned out to be a great choice, they have Wii dancing games and loads of girls to hang out with.

It was my first time going there and I loved it too, even if I did have to scoot myself (nearly) all the way there.

Dad didn't rush to pick us up and we were happy about that, especially as he'd done the Tesco shop without us, what a lucky escape.

It was Pyjama party day at Dragon club on friday, even the grown ups joined in!

We had suxch an action packed morning (including a hot chocolate session) that we were pretty late having lunch.

So when Dad arrived we were all still sat around the table having a very civilized luncheon.....in our PJ's, with painted faces!

We were on a bit of a tight schedule though, there was horse racing on in the afternoon and I really wanted to go.  So after we fought our way through the traffice we made it in time for a couple of races at least.

And a quick meet up with Darcey.....yay!

We got a good view right down the front, a good view of selections NOT winning any races.
From the races it was a quick dash accross town for swimming lessons.
I'd rather have stayed at the races to be honest.
And then it was pick mum up form work and meet up with John and Sarah at Pizza Hit in the evening.
What a great day....except for the swimming lessons.
It was good fun seeing John and Sarah, we can't wait for summer to see them again.
An early start on Saturday morning for a trampoling session at Northcroft, hat was my idea.  I really miss my afternoon trampolining sessions, school really does get in the way of stuff.
I loved it too, I went well high and had some good tricks to show off.
It took me a while to get back into it really, buty I was soon back to my best.
After the bouncing was finished we took a couple of past their best loaves of bread to the canal to feed the ducks.
Even though Dad did his best to scare them off!
In the afternoon Dad and I made a super chocolately cheesecake before I went up to my room and made my first ever solo Scalextric track.
While Mum took me to see my friend Ron.  I don't get to see him in the mornings since I started school so it was good to catch up.
Then in the evening we went to see the Halfords.  It's been ages since we've all met up so it was really good fun. 
Leo and I were quite the double act.
Yeah, a great double target for Max and I to use for rifle practice amongst other things.  We had a You Tube silly videos session which was really funny.
We had a mass lie in in Mum and Dads bed on Sunday morning, it was nice actually.
But we got bored soon enough, and it turned out to be a rather creative sort of day.  We decided we wanted to make a stage for a pupper show between us.
Using and old box, severl hundred tons of glitter and some other random things we could find.
There were a few instances of artistic differences but we managed to get it done before Grandad, Anne, Alan and Hayley came for lunch:

They got treated to a very special performance once we'd finished eating!

Monday then, back to school.

I didn't mind, I had a good day actually, I got an extra minute of golden time for being really sensible and sitting nicely reading my book.

And I had after school cross country club.  We had a race of sorts around the field 4 times, I came second out of all the year threes so I was pretty pleased about that.  There's a lot of talk about some inter-school race thats coming up, fingers crossed I get picked for that.

Finally we've caught up on videos with some leftover Christmas stuff can be viewed here:

And the fuits of my first filming trip to the Butterfly Farm on my new camera can be seen here:

We walked home with Max and Henry last wednesday, I love Henry, even if he is in year 6.

It was cool, I got to do some bunny hops on his scooter and everything.

It's nice having older friends.  After that it was time for dancing, I was particularly excited for some reason this week.

Yeah, so excited you fell asleep in the car on the way there and had to be woke up!

I was just re-charging so I could give it my all.  Once we got home I was still mad keen so put Ned through a few basic toe pointing moves:

He was pretty rubbish at it to be honest.
Yeah, but once she'd gone up to bed I put a few of my own moves down in the front room with some music i'd picked off the computer.  I'm getting pretty good at finding my way around Spotify these days.
We had a pretty standard week after that really, nothing too exciting to report.
We were forced out for a ruddy walk on Saturday, even though it was stupidly cold.
Yay, I love walks, even cold ones.
We went to Snelsmore, I have to admit the ice was pretty cool:

The ice on the animals drink trough was so thick I could stand on it:

Even better than the animals drink, the pond was frozen over too.  Once Dad had tested the ice, we ventured out for a little skate about:

Although I preferred scrambling up and down the steep, dirty bank:

We had a top result on Sunday though, an all dayer at JJ's!
With lunch!
We stayed for hours, didn't even bother Mum and Dad to come and play much either.
No, we played with each other mostly which was a bit unusual but very fun.  I  love the drop slide but was a bit too scared to go from the very highest one, maybe next time?
My second week of cross country club today, me and Dylan are the two fastest year threes for sure.
We got there in time to see them do their end of session fun relay race.  Ned ran the first leg very impressively it must be said.
We took the win of course!

Whats new and exciting this week...not much.
Got no photo's either, shame isn't it?
Oh well.
Yeah, we'll have to get onto some more boring stuff I suppose.  Like school work.  I would appear to be severely lacking in motivation for my homework projects, I can spend actual hours slaving away over just a couple of sentences.
I'm a lot more keen, I love it and will often just sit down and ask for words to spell.  Add that to the reading as well and i'm happy.  I reckon I will have caught up with Ned soon....
We had all the usual weekday stuff, school, Multisports,
Dancing,
Swimming and what have you and then it was the weekend.
Yeah the weekend indeed.  First up was an impromptu visit to the cinema.
Yes, it's cheap on Saturday morning or something?  Anyway, the film Rio was on, so we were well happy.
It was a great film, we loved it.
Such was the cheapness of the film, we were even allowed a McDonalds for lunch...yay!
And then it was home for a bit of slouching before we took Dad off to the station, he was off to London to see a band or something?
Yeah, we decided that even though he's a grumpy old git sometimes, we prefer it when he's around really.  Still, we made the best of it and went home with Mum for some Wii party action.
Followed by Mario and Sonic at the London Olympics and then a dose of Take me Out.  So not too shabby at all really.
Mum had to work on Sunday, which was a bit of a shock.
We didn't much in the morning, I got back on the Mario and Sonic Olympics.
Where I actually beat Ned at fencing!!!
Yeah yeah whatever! 
I gave up while I was ahead and had storytime with Dad.
Yeah and when that was finished I was forced to turn the Wii off!!!  So unfair.
Yeah, we even made him go down the park after lunch.
Hmmmmm, lets see, I fell off my bike, smacked my knee on the basket swing really hard and fell up the zip slide ramp.
Yeah and I headbutted the slide a a good few times as well, but I think on the whole we enjoyed ourselves didn't we?
Yeah, I reckon we did actually.
Especially when my friend Amelie from school showed up.
And a couple of my mates too.
We eventually got a call from Mum to say she was on her way home.
So we rode along the road towards town to meet her.
We had a nice roast dinner for tea with loads of lovely veg.
But best of all we had a wekend treat..pudding! Oh how i've missed you the last week.
We weren't very interested in Monday morning and gave Mum a right hard time.
We did, we wouldn't get dressed or anything. Some pretty heavy threats got issued against us, relating to non attendance of upcoming parties.....many tears followed.
So we'll try a bit harder tomorrow I reckon....
I had the first week of after school cross country club on Monday as well.  It was brilliant, we got to run around loads and loads and loads.  When Dad and Ellis came to collect me we even had a few races in the playground...obviously still not enough running!!!!!

I waited until I took my hood down in the dentist after school on Tuesday, glue hair!  It was like a bush, bey then I suppose it would be after i'd decided to rub handfuls of PVA into my barnet.  Anyway, the dentist didn't seem to mind, he was more interesyed in my teeth.  I was first up into the chair as well.
There was nothing to report, so it was just a quick poke around and then off to get our sticker.  I also got another envelope for my wobbly tooth.  The dentist did mention that i'm a bit slow getting my big teeth but it's nothing to worry about.
When we got home I had to get on with my school project, this week it was on Egyptian pyramids, so I should have been all over it.  Sadly motivation was lacking until I was really pushed into it. Once I got going though things flowed quite well, I used the picture of some pyramids we'd made out of geomag and also one we'd made out of raw spaghetti and marshmallows and did a great little write up of some cool pyramid facts.
We've started doing dancing at school on Wednesdays, I was good enopugh to earn myself a star and everything.  I still had enough energy for proper dancing after school as well though so that was okay.
I took my pyramid project in to school on Thursday.  It caught the eye of our teacher who in turn reckoned Mrs. Butt (The Deputy head) should see it.  She loved it as well and it was deemed good enough for a psecial smiley face gold sticker.  I also accompanied Dad on an after tea weekly food shop to Tesco.  He loves it when I go with him.  I was only really going to get Hugo a birthday present, so it was a bit of a disaster when we found the shelves that should have been groaning under the weight of Lego Ninjago were empty.....
Friday was swimming again of course, there was no Abi this week though...
No, nor Edward.  I didn't mind too much though and got well stuck in again.  I did a brilliant width of breast-stroke as well.
I was on form again this week, I love all the underwater stuff especially.
So Saturday was the day of Hugo's party and we still didn't have a present.  An emergency trip to Toys R Us was in order.
Yay, no complaints from me on that front.
We finally tracked down some Ninjago for Hugo, and I also spent some of my Christmas money on a Tech Deck skatepark.  Dad was well excited about it, Mum didn't get it at all.
I spent some of mine too, on some Bindeez beads (Hello Kitty of course).
After lunch I was taken to the bowling alley for the party, 12 boys in attendance, hyped up and ready for action.....
And we went home to do some beads, very fiddly.  So I got Dad to do them for me while I watched.
I had a great time at he party, I don't know what score I got, or who won but I do know that my first bowl was a strike with a 15lb ball!
We of course had another party in the evening, Auntie Trish's in fact.  Apparently it was a special party as well, a real landmark event!
Yeah, I heard someone say whe was 50?  Can't believe that's the case, but we'll go along with it if there's a do to go to!
Yes indeed we will, it was of course an oppurtunity to get all done up in my best princess dress and new shoes after all.
All the adults certainly enjoyed themselves, some of them maybe a little too much perhaps? 
It made it hard to nod off in the chairs though....

Still, it's nice they get to enjoy themsleves now and again.
Happy Birthday Auntie Trish!!!!!
After Saturdays very late night, Sunday wasn't exactly an action packed day.
No, still, we do like to spend all day in out PJ's now and again.
We watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on DVD in the afternoon and then had a massive row about eating roast dinners in the evening.
Which has now resulted in a complete pudding ban....thanks NED!!!

We had a some clowns visit us at school on Wednesday, even though I told Mum I was scared of the clowns with the faces it turned out I loved it.  They were really funny, even if they were sneakily teaching us maths.  This was all very much the side dish though, the main event was the return of dancing classes, finally, after the christmas lay-off.  I was at fever pitch and couldn't wait to go back.

I could, it means the return of reading club in the car while we wait for twinkle toes to finish.  I still pretty much hate reading, or writing, or anything at all that takes mental effort.

We had the maths clowns on Thursday, it was great fun Ellis you were right!

At bedtime I decided to tell Mum I wanted to sleep on my bean bag.  She told me it was a relly bad idea but if I wanted to move once she'd shut the door then that was up to me.  Once the door was shut I decamped to the beanbag of course.  I don't know what she was worried about, it was lovely and comfy.  I spent all night on it too!

Multi sports re-started after christmas as well on Thursday, numvbers are dwindling yet again though. Still, we still love it. Dad bought my new skateboard when he came to pick me up so I could skate home (and show Mr Gilham, he was pretty impressed with it I think).

Friday is PE day at school but I managed to convince Mum that I didn't need my kit, no no no kit for me.  Oh no.  Turns out I did need it, oops, I wasn't allowed to do PE so I had to stay in and do colouring instead...ha ha ha.

It was also swimming lesson day, I was raring to go of course after last weeks little wobble.
Strangely enough I was well up for it too, maybe because if I do really well this term I can maybe jack it all in. What a carrot to dangle.
Then as if there wasn't enough cool things going on it was film night at school, ace!  It was Mr Poppers Penguins as well, even though i'd already seen it I was raring to go see it again.
I went with Mum to drop Ned off in my brand new party shoes.  They're a little big but they make an excellent clip clop sound just like Mum's so i'll struggle on.
We packed some things and headed to Hampton Court Palace on Saturday morning.  I've been interested in Henry the 8th for a while so it was a good idea.
I was quite happy to wander about for a bit, once i'd had some food to kick start my day.  Only proper good for you stuff though, a Pepperami and some pringles.
We went on a guided tour with a man that worked there, he knew loads of stuff and told us some real cool things.  One of my favourites was that the palace is said to have 365 chimneys, one for every day of the year!
I was happy to demonstrate my immense strength after my power brunch:

We had a trip out of the Palace into the maze in the glorious winter sunshine.

I took lead duties:

Even if Ellis chose not to always follow my lead:

I navigated us to the middle in no time at all.

Getting out took a little longer mind you......

I took loads of pictures on my new camera of course.

And Mum took some too:

We visited a few more of the inside bits, I loved this staircase and made Dad walk me up and down it pretending that I was a Princess entering the ball:

And then we came across a rather famous ex-resident, who we thought had been dead some time:

He was very entertaining indeed, especially when he asked the grown ups questions and got silly answers!

After all the excitement of the royal visit, I decided Dad and I needed a lie down.

We headed out to the gradens which really were rather nice, but would have been nicer if we'd had a noisy motorbike or something to roar around on:

Then the best bit, instead of coming home, we went to stay in a hotel, yay, I love hotels!

So do I, you get to lounge around on big beds, watching Take Me Out and eating Minstrels:

It wasn't long until we had all nodded off..........

Which was good because it just meant breakfast time would come around sooner.

Oh yes indeed, we didn't go until quite late (by our standards anyway) but we certainly made ourselves at home, helping ourselves to whatever we fancied.  Namely sausages, beans and chocolate muffins.

And for me a massive coffee mug full of apple juice, toast, coco pops and a huge bowlfull of grapes.

We retired back to our room and I surveyed the view over London:

The we watched a programme that we hadn't seen before, called I-Carly.  We found it hilarious.....and rather surprisingly so did Dad!

We couldn't spend all day slumped on a bed watching telly though of course, we got dragged out to Richmond park.

We spotted a massive herd of Deer on the way in so we went deer hunting.

We found them too, loads of them, all belonging to father Christmas too I reckoned:

I fashioned myself some antlers of my own on the way back to the car:

And we got really into making funny shapes with shadows:

We headed back to the hotel, had we mentioned it was attached to Twickenham rugby stadium?  Thats meant there were loads of cool sculptures aroud the place:

It was time for a swim, the second best thing in my book about staying at a hotel.  I'd been desperate to go all morning.

It was a really swanky pool too, I loved it.  I loved it so much I got in the adult swimming lane and started bashing out the lengths.  Mum and Dad were amazed, I think they realise my commitment to ditching swimming lessons now!

I amazed them too, I didn't have my arm bands as Dad left them in the car and I couldn't touch the bottom of the pool as it was too deep but I was swimming about all over the place.

Dad and I spent so long preening in the showers afterwards with all the free shampooo's, conditioners, swimming costume spin driers, moisturisers and hair driers that Mum had to ring us as she wondered where we were!

We rounded out the Christmas holidays with a couple of cool days.

Tuesday was spent at Auntie Christines, we watched some films and ate some chocolate...we like!

Yeah, Mary Poppins was really good.

Wednesday Mum was off with us.  We had a proper low key 'with Mum' morning, involving her doing lots of washing and us playing loads of computer games.

When Dad got home at lunchtime we loaded up and headed to the Coral Reef for a spot of swimming.

Much excitment on my part, not that it lasted long, as soon as I got in the car I fell asleep.  Woke up quickly enough once we got there though.

Being as most schools had already gone back it was lovely and quiet in there, even if we did have to wait for the slides to open.

Slides?  Did someone say slides? I rode them all on my own, even went up the stairs without Mum or Dad .

I kept an eye on her so it was okay.

Best of all though, by half four they were completely dark inside and you had no idea where you were going, I loved it.

It was back to school on Thursday.

This was considerably cheered up with an invite to Hugo's forthcoming birthday party for me.

We weren't too upset to be going back if truth be told, even if we did say otherwise when asked.  I was right back into my reading, well for a bit anyway.

Thats more of a 'bit' than I was.

Friday's school day was cut short by me being collected at lunch time to go to the hospital for a blood test.  I was quite the celebrity leaving while veryone was having lunchtime play outside. 

I had to have a full day at school still.

I didn't get away with not having to go to the fisrst week of swimming lessons though...boo!  I didn not want to go.

I was of course really looking forward to it.  When we arrived we saw Eva (my friend from nursery).

And her brother Edward, my friend from nursery, who just so happened to be in the same class as me.  Add that to a teacher I decided I really liked and I was well up for it.  I was brilliant as well.  You'll have to take my word for it though as Dad was otherwise engaged and didn't see anything.....

Yeah, I don't know what went wrong but i decided i'd rather cuddle Dad than go in the pool.  I latched onto him and would not let go.  Even when Abi turned up and just so happened to be in the same class as me, I wasn't having it.  Luckily I had the same teacher as last rterm even though I have gone up a group so she knew I was usually really good.  Eventually I decided I would give it a go (only after exasperating Dad who didn't know what to do with me).  Within a few minutes I was loving it.

As a reward for being so brave and good at the hospital I got to choose a treat for that night, there was a difficult decision to be made between Pizza Hut and Pizza Express....the ice cream factory was too much of a temptation to resist so the Hut it was.  There were a couple of older kids from school in there as well as Louise from my class and an older girl in a really cool Frank Turner t-shirt.

We went to a butterfly farm thingy on Saturday near Swindon, we had our new christmas camera's primed and ready for action:

As soon as we went through the door we walked straight into Talia from my class at school so that was pretty cool.  We charged around together having a great time.

I took the more considered approach, the place was like a massive greenhouse to keep it warm enough for the butterflies.  There were loads of plants and stuff to make it interesting and there were butterfies everywhere, flying really close and even landing on a ladies head!

As well as the butterflies there were some other small animals, these guinea pigs were up for a cuddle:

I gave my advice on care of guinea pigs, I declared that you shouldn't punch them , or they might scratch your face.  Mum thought this was hysterical for some reason?

This was probably my favourtie specimen (My photo by the way) a massice butterlfy that looked like it was just emerging from it's cocoon:

 There was a load of fish in a pond too, they were really greedy and loved the food we threw them:

Yeah, they were proper greedy, splashing all over each other:

There was also an outside paddock, there were some very vocal Otters, goats, pigs and various birds.  Best of all though was my turkey friend here:

I am actually able to speak turkese you know!  We had quite a conversation, me and Noel.  All the way around the paddock in fact.

There was also Meerkats, lovely lovley meerkats.  There were a few playing outside, but most of them were all in their house huddled up in a massive ball of fur, ears and tails.  I loved them.

I loved the one on gaurd, when he stood up, his head disappeared into the heat lamp shade, we were surprised he didn't burn his nose!

As usual with these winter visits to places like this we were the only ones there at afternoon feeding time so the keeper lady gave us a special guided tour of the animals.

The Otters got raw fish, peanuts and boild eggs for dinner.

The meerkats got a lot of fruit and veg to eat (my kind of dinner).

And then the finale, she let the super muddy pigs out of their pen for a run around the paddock.  We loved it, even if we were mildly terrified of them, what with their size and well, muddiness!

Sunday was a bit of a snooze fest as we got dragged around some well boring shops, the highlight had to be watching Take me Out on the computer as the series had started again on Saturday night.  Mum and I are very pleased about that.

Then it was back to school on Monday for a proper full week.  I had another very uncharacteristic wobble and didn't want Mum to leave me there.  We're having challenge week this week with a visiting clown apparently...I hate clowns......

And i've been embroiled in a bit of a party tussle.  Tegan, Alastair and Tilly are having a joint birthday party in a few weeks time and Tilly has been telling me i'm not invited.  This is in rather stark contrast to Tegan and Alastair who most definatley want me there.......I think she may end up disappointed on this one!