Tuesday

We continued our drumming workshop at school, I loved it, legalised noise making!  It was also badge week at gymnastics....level 4 in the bag, easy peasy.  I can't wait to go for 3, 2 and 1.  I'm still practicing away at my splits and getting ever closer.

Wednesday

I got a letter to ask for Mum and Dad's permission for me to play in the school netball team at an upcoming tournament.  I'm so pleased i've been picked for yet another thing.

We had a check up at the dentist after school.  It went brilliantly for me and Dad.  I've got 4 confirmed wobbly teeth and he said I keep them lovely and clean.

I didn't do quite so well, I have to be more thorough with my brushing.  I was gutted about this.

Thursday

We spent the afternoon planting daffodil bulbs at school, how lovely.

It was still sunny after school had finished, so we hung around the adventure playground for a bit.

While I was hard at work in dance club.  Ben and I choreographed our entire routine from scratch, it was really good fun and apparently drew plenty of comments from the watching parents.
Once Mum was picked up from work and tea had been seen off it was full on cuddle club on the sofa with some telly.
Yes indeed it was.  Although I sloped off to bed without much quibble to watch Two and  Half Men on one of the wafty channels on the sly.

Friday

Last day of term was finally upon us, how exciting!

We'd filled our marble jar over the term so were due a reward.  We'd decided on a bike/skateboard/scooter afternoon.  Rather predictably the rain put paid to that which was a shame as we were going to get the ramps out and everything.  We did Lego instead though so it wasn't all bad really.  I also got to ride my bike to and from school which I thought was really exciting.
The trip to swimming lessons after school was more interesting than usual, the road to Northcroft was completely under water.
Yeah, it looked pretty deep too!
We told Dad to zoom through it but he was having none of it the spoil sport.  
We had to pick our way to the leisure centre pretty carefully as large sections of the car park were alo under water.
I didn't, I still love splashing in puddles, I never tire of it, even in inappropriate footwear.......

Saturday

Up reasonably early and off to the bowling alley.
Yeah, we'd been wanting to go bowling for ages and ages so we were well up for it.
Mum won as usual, but I really worked on my technique and got pretty good by the end of the game.
I played in my usual style, as if it was a huge inconvenience and to jettison the ball as soon as possible.
We had a quiet afternoon in readiness for Ali's party, at the Gymnastics club.  It was totally awesome, we flipped and bounced and everything else, all accompanied by a pumping soundtrack.
Meanwhile Andy came round for tea so I got to peform a full gymnastics routine for him in the front room.
We watched the Spalsh final when I got home, we were pleased that Perri won.

Sunday

Swimming day, we hadn't been for ages so I was well up for it.
Swindon this time and being a Sunday it has to be said it was pretty busy.
But we still had an awesome time.

Monday

First day of the holidays proper and we had a day with Auntie Christine and Darcey.
We loved it of course, did loads of colouring and watched a film, pizza binge for lunch....perfect!
In the evening I had Tillie's birthday party, a disco at the bowling alley.  Mum took Ali and I, although we had to make a detour to avoid Lower Way being closed due to flooding.  We got there in the end okay though.  It was brilliant, the music was great and I dance pretty much all night, only stopping to have a drink or re-fuel on the 'sweets buffet'
I was a rather red sweaty mess when Ali's Dad dropped us off at home later on.

Tuesday
School trip day, Bristol, to the Planetarium.  I wasn't that chuffed about this one in the build up as I wanted to go to the London one instead (that option got out-voted though).  Still, on the day I was raring to go.  We even got to go in a bendy bus coach!
It did seem a pretty long trip, but we loved it.  The planetarium show was pretty awesome and afterwards we got to wander round the wider science museum at our own pace to investigate the exhibits, a lot of which were hands on interactive type stuff.
We did our water filtration experiments back in class, I loved it.  Eventhough everyone predicted i'd try and drink the filtered dirty water I certainly didn't.  I loved seeing what affect the sand, gravel and cotton wool had on the murky water.
My wellingtons also developed a terminal problem when the seam split around the heel area.  Oh dear, all those lovely puddles to splash around in and I don't have any water-tight wellies......
Ned was pretty late back from Bristol so getting to gumnastics on time was a bit fraught....
But we made it!
Tea time was accompanied by about an hour of solid talking from Ned about his trip.......
I had to do my homework in a last night emergency dash style, accompanied by loads of whingeing and whineing.....but it turned out pretty good, well, according to Dad it was anyway.

Wednesday
I've been feeling really creative lately, and had a lovely time doing some blow painting after school.
While I sat on the sofa, watching telly, trying to forget it was PARENTS EVENING!
Cool, we get to play in the ICT suite for a while.
While Mum and Dad get told how i'm doing at school.....urrrgh.  It wasn't the best feedback i've ever had it must be said.  But then again, it wasn't too bad either really, just need to pay a bit more attention and try a bit harder a little more often really.

Thursday
After school dancing was brilliant this week, especially making the human pyrmaid arrangement for out finale.
We tried looking for new wellies and found nothing suitable...oh dear, what a nightmare time of year for such a fate to befall a committed splasher like myself.

Friday
Well, my parents eveing has certainly had an affect on me, I came home from school with this little certificate thingy:

And once Dad had verified I hadn't written it myself he was really pleased (as was Mum).
It was swimming night, the car park was almost underwater with the flooding!  I'm on a real charge with it now.  I think i've really finally cracked my front crawl/breathing technique.  I've certainly got messing about with Eva down.  This week Dad even remembered to bring my shampoo, conditioner and hairbrush for the shower afterwards!
I did my maths homework in about two minutes and then hit the Minecraft hard on the IPad.
There was a game of Logo Billionaire played after tea.
There was, and guess what....I WON!!!!!
Then we watched some of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony from Sochi in Russia.
There was some brilliant dancing, rollerblading and fireworks, I loved it!

Saturday
A lazy start to the day, watching the Olympics on telly.  Mens snowboard slopetsyle was the highlight, even if our Team GB chaps didn't get a medal in the final.
But that couldn't last, we went into town to buy me some more clothes.  
Oh deep joy.  Actually, I got to go in the Entertainer for ages until Dad rang me to order I try some stuff on too.
I loved it and got a few nice items for summer, should it ever arrive of course.
We headed home for lunch before setting off to visit Anne in her new house.
Yeah, we did, we approved of it whole heartedly too, very nice!
And after that it was yet more shopping!!
I could not believe it.
No, well, my need for new wellies is of the upmost importance.  Asda to the rescue:

Then it was back home for our usual Saturday night routine of Pizza and Splash!

Sunday
More early morning Olympics!  This time, Ladies Slopestyle snowboarding, and a bronze medal for our Jenny Jones.  It was dead exciting watching it, in bed, with Mum and Dad too.
I wasn't bothered, and took advantage of having the downstairs telly all to myself.
I was already looking forward to going out for a Chinese Sunday buffet lunch, seaweed!  Prawn Sesame toasts!  I spent ages doing my make up, i'm trying to town down my appliction technique a bit.  I think it's going pretty well.  I also got to wear a new dress which I was really excited about:

I wasn't quite so keen, from a food point of view anyway.  I'm not sure I like it all that much, but hey-ho, we were going with Alan and Hayley and I was looking forward to that.
Turns out I quite enjoyed my food in the end, I let Dad plate me some stuff up and I ate the lot, I particularly liked the curry spring rolls.
I decided I didn'ty like Seaweed any more.....
But we all agreed the help yourself jelly was brilliant.
We also had a lot of fun with Alan and Hayley.
And I hassled him to invite us offer to his house for some of his homemade jam tart cake things.  Hopefully he will.....
I asked Alan if he could come round to our house after the meal, but he said he had to go food shopping...yes!  Result!!!!  I wanted to go out and see Hugo or Alastair and Mum said I wouldn't be allowed if we had afternoon company.
I spent the afternoon cuddling up with Dad and doing Ironing with Mum, I love ironing!  I did very well not to burn myself, Mum or any of the clothes I think.  I particulalrly liked the steam spray function!
Hugo was out so I went to Alastairs, we played Minecraft all afternoon, awesome.
After tea we had a game of Labyrinth, we hadn't played for ages.....and weirdly Dad won.
We also watched some more Olympics, Biathlon!  The worlds coolest sport, cross sountry skiing and rifle shooting!!!!!  I really want a go at that.
Once that was finished it was bedtime, so a nice story for me, on Mum and Dads bed.
And Top Gear for me, the Alfa Romeo 4C and the Mclaren P1!

Tuesday

A perfect start to the day with my favourite breakfast, a large portion of dry Baugette and a heavy durt minecraft session on the Ipad.

It's good for me too, because while he's got his face stuck in the Ipad I get to choose what's on telly (once Mum has seen the news anyway).  I'm stilll favouring Channel 5's Milkshake for the record.

There's been plenty of sport at school lately, despite the weather.  It has led to some very muddy football sessions though.  Netball after school was a much cleaner affair.

And gymnastics is even better still! Being indoors and all that.

After tea I requested a game of Cluedo but this time I wanted to play on my own, with no help from anyone.

Very bold of you Ellis.

Yeah, I thought so, even if Mum wasn't completely convinced I knew I was doing.

Well, you did better than Dad, but then, thats no surprise.

Wednesday

I had a Good day at school, earning a marble for being polite.  I did loads and loads of writing during class.  I've also been getting on really well with my reading, which has been reflected in the level of books i've been bringing home, proper big ones with loads and loads of words in them.

There was no rugby again this week, so thats that bitten the dust.  I was pretty gutted about that.

I consoled myself by watching loads of videos of the various Apollo missions on YouTube.  I'm really captivated by our Space theme at school at the moment.

Thursday

We were all up early.

Yeah, it always feels really nice when we're all up early enough to see Dad before he goes to work.

It doesn't seem to make it any easier for Mum to get us ready on time though.....

Friday

Ahhhh Friday again.

Yes indeed, I was very nearly late for swimming due to us being a bit tardy getting in the car and heavy traffic.

It was Film night at school, great fun, almost as good as disco night!  We watched The Croods instead of the preciously advertised Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 but it was okay.

I sat at home with Dad watching funny animal videos on YouTube, it was lovely.

Saturday

A daytrip!

Yes, it's been a while since we've had one of these.

Indeed it has.  On today's agenda a trip to the science museum in London.

The day got off to a great start when my friend Evie from school just so happened to be going to London too on the same train.  We had great fun, hiding in the luggage racks.

When we left Paddington, Dad decided we'd walk through Kensington Park rather than take the underground to the museum.

We took some convincing to be honest, but he and Mum were hell bent on it.

As it turned out it was a great idea, it was a lovely sunny day.

The fountains were lovely, the pigeons having a bath in them certainly seemed to agree too.

The squirrels were brilliant too, really cute and brave enough to come right up to you.  We had a delve in the bag and found a bit of carrot and a bit of cucumber for one of them.

He loved the carrot, but left the cucumber.

There were also loads of dogs of all shapes and sizes out having a walk.  

We soon arrived at the museum and found our way to t he picnic area for lunch.....well, it was getting late for us.

Once lunch was done we started in earnest.  We found ourselves in a large interactive area, there was all sorts of things to and fiddle with.

Next up we went to the rocket show, it was brilliant.   Despite my best efforts and attempts at being the most prominent person in the auditorium I didn't get chosen to assist at any point during the session.  I must be losing my touch.

The highlight has to be the exploding of the balloon full of hydrogen (rocket fuel, I can certainly see why).

There was loads to see there, my highlight had to be the Apollo 10 command module.  I couldn't believe that it had actually been into space and back.

There was a bubble show later on in the afternoon.

Didn't get picked for that either.....

It was good though, bubbles of all shapes and sizes...even a square one!

We decided to take the tube back to Paddington rather than walk.

We did, we got talking to an American lady who had come to England to escape the bitterly cold weather of upstate New York.

She didn't mind the endless rain.

We had a quick pit stop in the worlds smallest Mcdonalds before setting off for home on the train.

We saw Evie again when we got off at Newbury and compared stories of our days out, how cool was that?

We were back home and on the sofa in time for Splash (albeit on ITV+1)

Sunday

Well, Mum went to work. which was a bit non standard.
As the sun was out for an amazing second day running, we decided to make the most of it and hit the BMX track.
We did indeed, we weere well up for it as we hadn't been to one for ages.
We went to the Knightwood one in Eastleigh and despite the prolonged recent rain it was riding really well, there was barely a puddle on it!
I still had to have a little help to get over some of the bigger jumps to begin with so that kept Dad on his toes.  
And with a little encouragement from me she made it all the way from the top of the start ramp too.
I was really pleased with myself.
We rode and rode and rode.
And then had a car-boot-picnic:

I declared it the 'Best day ever'  but had to concede that maybe it wasn't during cross examination from Ned and Dad.  That accolade goes to the Waterpark in Fuerteventura, at least for now it does......
We had a few more laps and then headed home.
I felt pretty iffy by the time we got home so spent the afternoon cuddling up with Dad on the sofa.
I headed out with the boys to play rugby in the park.  There was loads of us out, it was great.  I also got to take my new (Dad's old) mobile phone out with me.  Everytime we went somewhere different I rang Dad to tell him where we were going.  I'm not sure he needed to know my every movement but I enjoyed keeping him informed all the same.

Monday
Back to school, but only just as I was up on and off in the night feeling ropey.  By morning though I was feeling much better and went in as normal.
We commenced our 'Astronaut Training' at school.....we didn't get put in one of those spinny things, don spacesuits and work underwater or anything like that, nope, we did cross country!!!  First rule of Astronaut school, you have to be physically fit.  I loved it, especially as we had cross country club after school and I got to do even more running.
We did a cricus themed performance, I formed par of the acrobats group, my signature move being the headstand into the bridge.....

Tuesday

I got a whole raft of results for my homework project this week, a survey on peoples favourite sunday roast meats.  I had to use the data to produce some bar graphs And what have you so the more replies I got the more impressive my graphs were going to be. Many thanks to everyone who sent mum a reply.

Gymnastics was really cool again.

And netball went brilliantly this week. I played goal shooter and scored during a match!

Wednesday

We've been doing loads of poetry at school and i've been loving it.  My best one was an accrostic one all about autumn.

Rugby was cancelled after school this week as there weren't enough people interested.  That was a shame.....but on the way home Miss Langdon tracked us down to ask me if i'd step in at the last minute for the school football team, to play in a match they had arranged on Thursday. After very carefull consideration I decided I was up for it.  Very up for it, I was dead excited.

In a rare lull in the rain, we had an after school trip to the park.

We did, I ended up playing king ball with some year 3's for pretty much the whole time.

I got Dad to push me in the basket swing, we still scare bystanders with our height!

Thursday

Football match day, I was really looking forward to it, not least because we got to leave school early at 2 o'clock to get to the school we were playing against in Reading.  I went in with Tom and Jack in Tom's dad's car.

I was only supposed to play for a little while being the sub but ended up playing pretty much the whole game due to the others getting injured.  I think it's fair to say that in terms of the result we really didn't do that well with our opponents score being into double figures, while our goal tally totalled just the one.  Still, they were all year sixes!!! 

We got to hang around school on the adventure playground when Dad came to pick me up, we hadn't done that for ages.

I finally tackled my reading book at home as well, something i've been a bit reluctant to do lately.  I really went for it though and read the whole book in one go.

We were both pretty well worn out by the time tea had been eaten and had to admit defeat and have an early night.

Friday

I really enjoyed my maths homework down the pool on Friday afternoon.  It was allabout measuring points on a map and working out the shortest routes between the given destinations.

While I put in another good showing at my swimming lesson.

I finished my homework so quickly that Dad and I sat and played chess on the Ipad until Ellis was done.

Alan and Hayley came round to babysit in the evening, we'd been looking forward to this all week!

We had, we marked their arrival by ambushing them with Nerf guns when they arrived.

We had a great time, the hide and seek was a particular highlight.

I hope they weren't too traumatised by the evening, we loved it!

Saturday

We went to look at a house that was for sale.

Yeah, apparently we were only going for a nose about to see what was out there apparently.

We quite liked it.

I liked it even more when I bumped into Jack and Tom in the street, turns out it was two doors up from Jack's house.

In the afternoon I skidaddled off down the park with Hugo, Ali and Ben.  We had a game of rugby and got filthy.  We had to come home when the heavens really opened though.  We hid in Hugo's garage until it stopped and then all made a break for home, arranging to reconvine back at my house once we were cleaned up and changed.

We'd just started playing Just Dance when they all turned up.

We decided to join in, great fun.

Sunday

I have a very wobbly tooth.  We joked about Mum ripping it out of my jaw, but I thought i'd attempt the comic book classic of the string around the door handle:

It didn't really work that well but it certainly provided plenty of laughs!

We had to go clothes shopping in Reading, that certainly didn't fill us with laughs.

No, but having said that it was actually pretty good in the end.

No, it wasn't too bad actually.  

We quite enjoyed trying stuff on.

We certainly enjoyed our lunch at Costa's, the salted caramel muffins are lovely.

We came home and played the logo billionaire game, I had a total shocker and didn't get any companies formed at all. Rubbish, total rubbish, I suggested we forget the rules alltogether.

Monday

Back to school, more 'wet play' at break times.

I don't mind at all, I get to do more arts and crafts.

I do mind when cross country gets cancelled after school, whats wrong with running in the rain?

Dancing was cool after school, Amy and I are continuing our partnership whenever possible.

We had another go at Logo Billionaire.

I though it was going to go the same way as yesterday but I put in a good run and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat!!!

Tuesday

Well the rain eased up for a little while at least.  

Enough for the puddles to freeze over on the way to school anyway.

We got to break through them with our wellies on the way to breakfast club, one of the advantages of going to school early I suppose.

I did after school netball with just a t-shirt on top.  I didn't feel the cold even if everyone else did.

At least I didn't have top ut up with his grumpyness on the way to gymnastics anyway.

We had another Jungle Speed session in the evening.

I'm not at my most attentive when we have the music channels on in the background though.

Wednesday

We've not been getting ready all that well in the mornings lately.

No, it's been a real struggle lately.

I think today we pushed Mum over the edge pretty much.

Add to that our total lack of homework motivation in the evening and we really weren't doing very well at all.

Still, I decided to do a bit more indoor roller skating to help lift the mood...or not!

Thursday

Our adter school dance class featured a routine using hats!  It was really cool.  What wasn't quite so cool was my teacher telling Dad that I hadn't 'settled back in' to classes after the christmas break...oh dear.

I put on extinsive gymnastics display for Dad when I got home from school.  I've got quite a repetoire now and i'm still working on my splits.

Friday

I did sports leaders in my golden time in the afternoon which I loved.

And I had swimming lessons again, i'm doing much better this term I think.

Saturday

We were up and at the cinema early doors for the kids AM showing of Free Birds.

It was really good, until I realised all the sweets had been eaten and I barely had any.

This set a bit of a tone for the rest of the day, there was a lot of flouncing, shouting and sulking.

Yeah, there was, some of it was us kids as well!

We managed a trip to Waitrose for lunch things.

I cleared off to Hugo's for the afternoon, we played Minecraft on his XBox.

We all calmed down over a McDonalds for tea, laughing at the hapless fools maiming themselves on Splash.

Sunday

Well the sun was out and everyone was in a much better frame of mind.

Indeed we were. 

Dad and I had a quick haircut, the lady loved the smell of my hair that i'd just washed.

And even though I didn't get a haircut myself, I still got a lollipop.

In our 'Go Kinetic' drive at school we've been collectng stamps for a while.  We had more than enough for a free swim at Northcroft.  I was super excited about this, even if Mum and Dad took some convincing.  

Well the new changing rooms certainly met universal approval.  That was a good start.

We had a good time, without slides and wave machines we had to make our own fun, and we did!

We had the dive sticks, they were great fun down the deep end.

I also spotted one of the bricks you have to dive for during lessons on the bottom of the pool. Trouble was it was over the other side of the pool and on the other side of two adult swimming lanes.  I really wanted to get it though, and after a couple of false starts I made a break for it in a gap between the serious swimmers.  I got it, and got back without getting whistled at by the lifegaurds.

My friend Matilda was also there, I found her splasing about in the learner pool.  

So after our non standard swimming location we kept our voyage of discovery going by visiting Aldi on the way home.

We really wanted to replace our tin of christmas sweets that Auntie Christine had got us from there.  We didn't find any though, it was a bit optimistic this side of Christmas I suppose.

The sun was still out in the afternoon so we were forced out for a ruddy walk.

Yeah, a walk!

I wanted to be back home as quick as possible so I could get round to Hugo's again.

It turned out to be pretty good though, we headed down to the canal and then on to Northcroft.

Yeah, all the houses along the canal had flooded gardens, it looked pretty bad.

And the river that runs across the back of the leisure centre had so much water in it, the paths across from the bridge and even the football pitches were under water.

Wading through it all in our wellies was great fun.

It was just as bad the other side near the park too, in fact there were a few small islands on the field:

The park was pretty much dry though:

We headed back, still in the lovely sunshine.

I disappeared off to Hugo's, we didn't get much Minecraft done, but we did have an awesome bundle on their trampoline, resulting in very muddy clothes and an ice pack for Hugo.

While they were doing that I painted Mum's nails for her:

Well, I say painted, more like daubed them with blue sludge....it didn't dry very quickly....

Monday

Cross country club started again this week, I was on super quick form and lead the way on all our runs, what with Maxim having left and the year 6's being in Rhos for the week.

We did the hat dance as well, I caught Dad out a treat when they came in to watch as well. I could see him trying to locate me in my usual position at he back, so left it a bit before I shouted at him, from the front row!

After tea we both got busy with our homework with Mum helping, very productive!

Tuesday

Back to school day.

Yes, it was, never mind we made the best of it.

We did, We've stared our new topic, Space.  Brilliant, I was well enthusiastic about this one.  I answered the most questions during class and have pretty much become the class space expert (i was the only one who knew qho Buzz Aldrin actually was).  As well as that, I had my new back to show off with too, everyone was well impressd with it.

We started doing a project on Charles Darwin and his discoveries.  I was well into that too.

The Skylanders I spent my Christmas money arrived, record time!  They are of course awesome.  As ever, the game is secondary to collecting the awesome figures.

It was also our first week back at gymnastics club, I was over the moon about this and was raring to go.  I'd been practising my splits all over Christmas.

I didn't have any netball this week, but didn't bother with my usual whinge about having to take her as i'd just downloaded Minecraft onto my Ipod, it's awesome.

Wednesday

On further school news, we've been doing rounding up and down.  Dad tested me on it on the way home from school, i've got it down though, it's pretty easy really.

I spent my Christmas money on a Furby Boom.  It came today, 

I was really excited.  She's a crazy one thats for sure.  I named her Khee-Bay and she was great fun, jibbering on, singing and what have you.  I synced it up to my Ipod from which you can feed her, shower her and play games with her.  What I didn't like though is when her voice went all deep and she started being really mean and moody.  None of us knew why and even being nice to her didn't bring the old Khee-Bay back.  I was so upset, I cried.

So we switched her off and played Cluedo instead.  Mum won, Dad was hopeless again of course.

We managed to cheer the grumpy Furby up again afterwards.

And I gave Dad a lesson on playing Minecraft, which was rather futile bearing in mind his age.

Thursday

I hadn't seen Dad at all this week in the mornings before he'd gone to work.  I made a special effort to get up and give him a cuddle today.

We were full bore on Space again at school, i'm loving it.

After school dance club was also a load of fun this week.

We played Jungle Speed after tea, we're alll loving that.

Friday

Last day of the school week.....

And a return to swimming lessons.

Again, no grumbling from me for Ellis' activities, I did my maths homework and then played Minecraft.

Andy and Owen came round in the evening to play a few games.

We had a game of Jungle Speed and Dobble before I went off to bed.

Then we played Ticket to Ride, which Andy won!

Saturday

A lovely sunny day at long last.

Indeed it was, we made the most of it and headed for a sledgeing session in Ringwood:

We hadn't been since last Christmas and we were right up for it.

It was great fun, zooming down the hill.

The uplift queue was a bit lengthy at times though:

I decided to walk up and get more goes back down.  I even pulled Ellis up on hers a couple of times.

He did, what a nice brother he is sometimes.

Once we finished we went into the clubhouse for a hot chocolate.

It was a lovely one too, topped with loads and loads of squirty cream.

We then pressed on for Southbourne beach for a delicious car picnic.

A plain baugette for me.

A full size salad bowl for me!

Then it was out of the car to enjoy the sunshine:

Skimmers, wave dodging, all the usual activities.

We walked for miles and miles, the dunes were great.

Jumping off them was even better:

It was, I couldn't quite match Ned but gave it a good go:

Then I decided to get lost in the dunes and cause a mild panic amongst mum, dad and Ned. I don't know why, I knew where I was all along!

Sunday

Well, back to another grey damp sky.

We did homework in the morning.

Mine was easy this time, design a front cover for my project book.

And I had to research another famous scientist, I chose Vonn Brown, the rocket chap.

I made a collage of a rocket as a start:

Now all I have to do is some words to go with it.....

I finally got to see Hugo, he came round, we played Age of Empires, drank lemonade and then went off to his house.

I wached loads of the music channel and then played with the Furby with Mum.  We fed him all sorts and he did a massive poo!

I was told to be back at 6 for tea, Mum had to come and get me, caught me redhanded watching a film at Hugo's at half past six.  I was not popular.....

Monday

Not much to report really.  Tried another game of Age of Empires, got stuffed this time.

Dancing after school was very enjoyable though! As was the walk home afterwards, it totally chucked it down so of course I removed my coat and dawdled home ensuring I was totally soaked through.

Tuesday - New Years Eve

The last day of the year, party time, how exciting.

Mum was at work so we went to meet her for lunch.

We managed to not go to Costa's and had a McDonalds instead.

We sat up stairs in big comfy chairs.

Dad spent he afternoon cooking and making nasty smells in the kitchen (cod and red pepper sauce, smelt a bit vinegary).

We played games and watched some telly.

And finally had a full scale Nerf gun war over the house.  Brilliant.

Once mum was home I finally got to pack my overnight bag, I was going to have a sleepover with Abi and Faye after the party, Marny was going to stay too.  

We all thought Nick and Carol were very brave, or more acurrately, mad.

We had a great evening, playing games, eating cake pops.

Watching a DVD.

The girls all turned in pretty early, which was good for me, I got to play Jungle Speed and Dobble with the grown ups.  Although we did pause briefly to acknowledge midnight and wish each other a happy new year.  It was a proper late night, we didn't get home until about 2:30am.

Wednesday - New Years Day

Us girls had a great night, loads of fun.  It was a little bit of an early rise for me at 8am, but apparently for Marny thats quite a lie in.

Did someone say lie in? How does 11:45 sound???  My record, very pleased with that.

I had to get up so we could go and get Ellis......

Well Mum was at work, so not a lot happened in the afternoon.

Thursday

Poor old Dad had to go back to work as well as Mum today, the early morning must have been a shock to his system.

It meant we got to spend the day with Auntie christine though.

Indeed it did, we did Making.

We did baking.

It was lovely.

Friday

Another day with Auntie christine.

We went to see Turbo at the cinema.

We really enjoyed it, i'm sure it was a better choice than Walking With Dinosaurs.

Lunch was at Pizza hut, I know, what an awesome day eh?

I helped mum take the decorations off th tree in the evening, I was very carfeul with the big glass baubles and didn't break any, a feat Dad usually manages with ease.

Saturday

Well the christmas tree was ejected through the window and all the rest of the clobber got taken down and put away for another year.

It's been a great Christmas, thanks to everyone thats bought us stuff, looked after us, played with us, fed us, watered us and made us laugh.

Yeah, we've had a brilliant time thats for sure.

In the afternoon I had Kimi round to play Skylanders, an event we'd initially planned for New Years day but my monster lie in put paid to that.

In what turned out to be a great arrangement, I got to go around to Marny's house and play with her while.  

We had a great time, played a few proper story mode game chapters and had a few death matches.

Then it was Saturday night telly time, Splash, the diving programme was back on which was good for a laugh.

Sunday

We had a trip out for the first time in ages to Oxford.

To visit the Ashmolean museum so I could see the war bit we weren't allowed in during our school visit.

The journey was pretty cool, we went to the park and ride and then got on the double decker bus into town.

Upstairs of course, where we could get a good view of all the flooding on the way in, there were what looked like lakes, but they had goal posts sticking up out of them.

And the park where we played in the summer holidays after we'd been to the Hinksey outdoor pool, looked wetter than the pool itself had.

We arrived in the town centre after I got a bit stressy over whether we had missed the right bus stop or not and made our way to the museum.  I was pretty pleased to be able to show everyone one around as I knew where I was going pretty much.

It was pretty good in there, if you like nudie statues, we loved the bums and winkles!

But I didn't manage to find any real war bits which was a little bit disappointing really.  There were some paintings by an artist called Malcolm Morley that we really liked though.

We had some lunch and then went back to see the rest of the museum but we still didn't find what Ned had come for.

No, but we did find the super boring rooms full of plates and china I had to endure on my school trip though......

Monday

Well, it was the last day of the holidays.

Yep, what a shame.  Well, I say that, but quite honestly I think i'd quite like to go back now.  I've been asking for sums and spellings as well as voluntarily reading for a while now.

Even i'm sort of looking forward to it in a way, i'll get to show off with my new bag anyway.

I packed it with all the stuff from my old, battered book bag in readiness. 

I decided what I really wanted to do was spend my last day pf the holidays cleaning!  We did the kettle, the toaster, the sink the work tops, the tiles, the windows the microwave, in fact anything I could buff, wipe, scrub or polish!

Then I polished my school shoes so well you could see your reflection in them.

While this was going on, I dedicated myself to a game called Duck Life on the PC, it was brilliant.

I continued my domestic duties in the afternoon by repairing my Hello Kitty cushion with a little bit of sewing.

I played a couple of levels of Skylanders with dad when he got home from work.

We rounded the day off playing Just Dance on the Wii.

Then an early night in readiness for school tomorrow.