Tuesday

I came home with my new reading book.....bearing a gold sticker!  Yeah, a gold sticker, thats up two whole levels in one go.  

It was our first netball club since the tournament.  I think the experience has done us good, we played our matches in a much more relaxed and easy flowing way.

And despite two bridges being closed we managed to make it to gymnastics on time.

I've discovered chili sauce, 3 chili rated according to the side of the bottle too.  It's lovely, but very, very hot.

They even made me to pick me up on time, which was good as Dad got to see me doing our tumble track obstacle course.

Wednesday

Hmmmm, not sure what happened, move along, nothing to see here.....

Thursday

Well the weather has been lovely for days, all my beloved puddles and mud have all but dried up.  I've even had to revert to my normal school shoes instead of my wellies.  Still, it's not all bad, we got to play in the Adventure playground at school until Ned finished dancing.  It was great fun, Neave was there as well as all the boys, who at one point all removed their shirts much to my bemusement.

Friday

Last day of the week....yay.

I'd lost five minutes golden time this week, it's really got to me.  We did sports leaders though, which soon cheered me up.

I'd lost an 'undisclosed' amount too.  Oh well, never mind, easy come, easy go.  A bit like my pocket money really.  Mum is docking me £1 everytime i'm not dressed and ready for school in the mornings (after repeated requests).  I'm down to zero this month already.  Still, at least I can't lose any more now and I can max my pyjama time in the mornings.

It was the last week of the swimming term which meant fun week.  It was great fun, we had some races, we played a game of water polo with the other classes and we played on the floating mats.

Saturday

Our first trip of the year to Legoland.
Indeed it was, well, it only opened the day before.
First stop was the boats.
Yep, and what a load of nonsense that ended up being.
Indeed it did, there were numerous attempts to sabotage each others vessel, at one point Dad and Ellis managed to get us spun right round and facing the opposite direction.

We had to have lunch pretty much straight after of course, we do like an early lunch.

We found a nice bench in the sunshine and I took a rather good selfie of us all:

We had a bit of a photography session in general actually:

Then we went on the Wave Runner, a ride we don't often go on.
Thats because it isn't often sunny!!!
We got pretty soaked but it was excellent fun.
Onwards to the pirate boat, we sat too near the middle for our liking.
So we had another go and when we got to the gate mum asked if we could wait for the next ride and go on the end....result.  The end is sooooo much better.

As we were just starting to dry out from the Wave Runner, we decided that the Viking River splash would be a good idea......we got soaked again!
We then zig zagged back accross the park for the Dragon roller coaster.
Before heading back the opposite direction again for the driving school.
This years big news here is the inclusion of one and one only Police car.  Complete with Siren and flashing blues.  Obviously I wanted it.  Mum apparently told Dad that i'd manage it somehow, but he thought the odds were stacked against me.
I wasn't bothered.
So, as the gate opened sure enough I had manouvered myself to the front of the queue.  Form there it was a burst of my best race walking (strictly no running allowed) to the location of the car that i'd been watching closely.  It was pretty easy in the end, and here I am, real life Police Interceptor:

It was getting pretty late by now, we headed back up the hill, having a couple of goes on the little Duplo train which we still love.
And then getting pretty much the last go on the Fairy Tale Brook before it shut for the day.
Not a bad start to the season at all!
And home in time to watch my favourite programme, Saturday Night Takeaway (on +1 anyway).

Sunday

Haircuts were called for, but it was pretty busy and we had to wait for hours, so after that it was straight to Alan and Hayleys for lunch.  
We never really get to go there so it was quite a rare occasion.
Lunch was lovely and we had my special request for pud, Jammy bakewell tarts....lovely!

It was pretty late by the time we left for home but we still had time to make the most of the fading daylight with a trip to the park.
We had a kick about which was fun.
And I got stuck in my Gillet, which wasn't.  The zip took a lot of persuading before I could be freed.

Monday

After school dancing was fun.  I've decided to focus my attention on Harry, the lucky boy.  It was like he had a shadow.
I arrived in time to watch the performance with a very red face from cross country.  My cheeks were as hot as a radiator!

We helped Dad fix his bike wheel after tea.
I think we did a good job, it looked all lovely and shiny anyway.

Tuesday

Pancake day, we had some at breakfast club, that was a good start to the day.  Then we did our sponsored pancake toss:

I managed 32 flips in a minute, with no practice.  Pretty good I reckon.

We had a trip to the library.  We had to walk down all the class together.  The trip was a bit of a let down though to be honest, a load of talking and about 40 seconds to actually look at books.

It was of course gymnastics day, yay!  On the way home conversation moved towards my belved ex pet Poppy.  I decided she'd make an excellent pet as a ghost.  We wouldn't have to worry about her when we went away and best of all she wouldn't make me sneeze!

We had our final netball practice before the upcoming tournament.  Exciting stuff, although I am a little nervous about it all.

Being as it was pancake day, we got Dad on duty after tea.

I had to supervise him of course, poor man, he had to make thousands.

But we all got to have a go, and the verdict was unanimous this year, traditional pancakes are lush!

Especially when kept simple with just fresh lemon juice and a lot of sugar.

Reading is going well at the moment, I tore through Olly the Octopus in record time with Mum.

And I watched another slew of Minecraft videos on Youtube.

Wednesday

We had an assembly with a visitor, a hearing dog for the deaf.  He was a cocker-poo (obviously hilarious).  It was all very interesting but sadly we didn't get to give the star of the show a cuddle.

After school we had a cuddle up session watching an episode of Worlds Most Dangerous Roads on Dave.  Right up my alley.  They were in South America.

I was pretty into it as well though, we certainly wouldn't fancy being driven along some of it thats for sure.

Once that was finished it was onto another favourite, Storage Wars.   We watch all the best stuff.

I took to my bedroom to finish my maths homework, I can't concentrate with Ellis chirping on, Dad's singing and the telly blaring.  

Thursday

Our after school dance was loosely based on Indian style moves and I loved it.  So did a lot of the Mum's who commented on my performance afterwards.

Not ones to leave things until the last minute we were frantically trying to sort out our costumes for tomorrows world book day at school.

Tensions got a little high at times but I think we got there in the end to everyones satisfaction.

On top of that I also had a class assembly to learn my lines for and my spellings to learn before Fridays test.....oh dear.

Friday

Well the costumes were good in the end:

The Demon Dentist for me.

Rapunzel for me!

We do rather enjoy a dressing up day at school, everyone joins in, even the teachers.

Here's some big news, I finally passed my level 4 swimming and picked up some lovely positive comments along the way.  It's certainly taken a while.  Poor old Eva didn't though, so thats us split up at lessons for the time being, I hope our paths continue to cross though.

Auntie Christine came round to babysit in the evening, even though she was feeling a bit under the weather. 

It was lovely to see her, it has been a while since she's looked after us.

Saturday

Early start at the netball tournament up at Park House school.

It was a lovely day as well, which was a bonus.

The netball itself was okay although I think the John Rankin C team wasn't going to set the world on fire.  We lost four of our five games, but the one we won, we won very well!

I took advantage of the lovely day and the wide open expanse of playground available by practcing my roller skatng:

I'd only shuffled around the house on them since Christmas, so I had a lot to learn.  Within a couple of nervous shuffles holding Dad's hand i'd got it cracked though:

I was soon gliding accross the tennis court with relative ease.  I loved it!

And even though we didn't perhaps get the results we wanted we loved it too:

I'm sure it will stand us in good stead for future tournaments, and 

I hope we can repeat the success of our A team, they came third overall!

It was all done and dusted by lunchtime, so we headed into town for lunch in Costas.

Before getting Anne a birthday card from Mum's shop.

I spent the rest of the afternoon finishing off my Lego set from Christmas (a swimming pool complex with a slide, diving boad, hot tub, cafe and changing rooms with a shower).

I headed off out to see who was about.  The usual suspects were found down the park, Hugo, Ben, Ali.  We went to the shop for sweets, and might have, maybe knocked on a few doors and ran away.  We came back to our house for a bit of a Minecraft session.

Except Ben, he was more interested in my Lego.

Sunday

Anne came over, we took her out for lunch in honour of her birthday.

We had a nice meal, especially the puddings which were awesome.

It was a lovely sunny day so we ventured into Victoria Park afterwards.

It was heaving, but good fun.

It was, especially seeing my old friend Pedro, I hadn't seen him since nursery but we still recognised each other straight away.

Once we got home, I could only find Hugo, but I didn't mind that.  He stayed around our place until his mum summoned him home at tea time.  Then it was A Top Gear special in the evening, but sadly Mum had managed to break my television while tidying my room.  I always said it was better left messy.  The upshot was that I was allowed to stay up and watch it, so not all bad.

Monday

At least Dad bothered to turn up in time to see our dance this week.  

Cross country was good, I got to be custodian of the stopwatch, a very cherished honour, only bestowed upon the most senior team members.

After school it was the top notch excitement of having a new tyre fitted.

We love having new tyres fitted, theres so much to look at and ask questions about.

We're sure the bloke loved having us hanging about and getting in his way.....

Tuesday

I love words and spellings and all that so I really enjoyed it at school when we had to describe various characters from the story of Peter Pan.

I also had a good day, we had to design menu's for astronauts, and on a more earthly type of scenario, a menu for school dinners too.

While we're on literacy, we've also been doing a short story competition thsts been on the radio and everything.  I finished it off well ahead of schedule, unusually for me, and handed it in on a cool wristband memory stick Dad got me from work.  The story was about an onion called Gary, who loved drumming.  Yeah, you read right.  Only myself and Fin managed to hit exactly 500 words.

I didn't remember to take my PE kit to school, so had to do netball in my uniform, never mind, at least it wasn't Rugby or something.

It was viewing week at gymnastics, so we got to show off our moves to the Mums and Dads and brothers an sisters.  It was quite useful as it gave Dad an insight into what moves we're working on so we can practice at home.

Wednesday

Well, neither of us have any clubs on a Wednesday.
So it's a great day for a midweek slump in front of the telly after school.
So thats what we did.  Nothing to see here, move  along......

Thursday

We've been working with Ned's class again for the go-givers charity initiative.

Indeed we have.

I love working with Alastair, he's such a laugh.  We came up with the idea of some naked yoga, like in the book Gangster Granny, much to our own utter hilarity.

We hung around after school as the sun was out again, i love playing on the adventure playground.

I had the choice of an extra netball session or dancing after school, I went for the netball, i'm loving it at the moment.

Friday

I had another good week at swimming.

I didn't, I had too much maths homework even for me to finish inside the half hour available to me.

It was school disco night though so that was good news.  

I spent the night with Dad watching silly animal videos on the internet.

And I spent the night dancing and dancing and dancing.
I got shown a few highlights when I got in and then we settle don Ice Road Truckers for a bit on Channel 5.
Yeah, we loved it and fell for the totally over the top 'will they won't they crash through the ice and die'
They didn't.

Saturday
Bit of a lay in before Tolly and Harrisons joint birthday party.  We'd got the presents and cards organised well in advance so all I had to do was settle on my outfit and hairstyle. 
We dropped her off and went to Waitrose for lunch stuff and best of all cheesecake!  I told the lady on the counter it was by far the best, second place went to the ones on the market and third place was Marks and Spencers.
The party itself didn't go too well sadly, it was overrun with boys.  I ended up getting hit on the nose and wanted to be taken home early.  Mum soon came to get me and I spent the afternoon feeling sorry for myself and snuggling up on the sofa.
I went out with Hugo for a bit to the park then we came home to play computer games.

Sunday
We had a visit from Anne in the morning, it was nice to see her.
She didn't stay for lunch though which was a shame.
After lunch we had a trip to Toys R Us as I had a voucher to spend and we had to get some birthday presents for others.
It was cool to have a look around, but the selection of bikes and scooters to bomb around the shop on seem a lot more limited these days?
We finally watched Despicable Me 2 in the afternoon, i've been campaigning to watch it since I got it for Christmas.
It was brilliant, we all really enjoyed it and laughed pretty much the whole way through.

Monday
Back to school, more Go-givers malarkey with Ali.
Yes, i'm afraid it was.  But on with other news and it was my first proper netball match, away, against Franci Bailey school in Thatcham.  It was really good, I loved it, even if I did have to mark six foot tall year 6 girls.  We lost out first game but won our second.  Tom and I were the only boys who were picked, so we were a  pretty rare breed......
Dad missed dancing as the phone engineer had to come and fix our internet.  Then we had to wait for Ned to return to school, I passed the time riding my bike and running laps of the playground:

Then running a few laps:

Then playing on the juniors adventure playground and squelching in the mud as much as possible.

I finally arrived back, our teacher Miss Knowles told Dad she didn't know anyone who talks as much as me....anyway, here I am in another school sports kit, this time the netball one (we weren't allowed skirts, I did ask):

Tuesday

Mum had the day off, we love it when that happens.

Yeah, lay in's, good food, cuddle time!

We also did some numeracy and literacy for fun!

We did, and we loved it.

We made our way into town after lunch to meet up with Dad and go to the cinema.

We watched Mr Peabody and Sherman that we had been excited about for ages.

Turned out the grown ups didn't rate it very highly, we didn't care, we enjoyed it.

Auntie Trish came round to babysit in the evening, a treat indeed especially as it was a week day too.

We do love having a chat with her.

Wednesday

Another day with Auntie Christine.

This time with added Auntie Trish too, bonus!

We had anorher trip to the cinema, this time to see the Lego Movie.

We were super excited about it.

Mum and Dad really weren't keen on this one, but it was brilliant, We all reckoned they'd missed out.

We had a trip to the pub for lunch afterwards, what a lovely day out it was.

Thursday

Dragon club today, brilliant!

It was pretty soggy on the way in but we didn't mind.

We both had a brilliant time, I played Minecraft on the Xbox.

And I spent the day making cards, and a lovely decorated box to keep them in.

Friday

Another day at Dragon club.

I got to play even more Xbox as there wasn't so many in.

I got my nails painted, did some making, some painting and made some jewellery.

We also built dens, very extensive dens.

And raced each other on our scooters.

It was all great fun.

Straight from there to swimming lessons.  We had some trainee teachers tnis week, there was more of them so we had one between two of us.  This worked out brilliantly for me and I really pushed on.

I saw Edward and got blamed by his Mum for getting him and by the sounds of it his Dad into Minecraft.

We packed up a few things, picked Mum up from work and headed away for the weekend.

Butlins this time!

Yeah, after a near miss (Alton Towers had most of the rides closed, that will have to keep for another time) we headed for Bognor Regis.

We were booked into the Wave hotel, and we were very impressed when we arrived.
Yeah, I was by the cars in the car park!  There was a lovely Bentley.

There was a brilliant waterfall thing in the lobby, I loved poking my fingers into it even of it did make the floor a little wet.

Even better than that was a games room, full of Playstations and Wii's:

It was pretty cool it has to be said:

But not as cool as our room.

Apart from all the usual stuff there was an awesome balcony overlooking the whole place.

Never mind that, the best thing was our bedroom, with our own door with a porthole, not just another bed in the main room. Not only that we had a bunk bed, each with our own telly at he bottom of it.

It was amazing it has to be said.

We went out for a bit of a walk, found the arcade and this rather massive deck chair:

Then went to bed, in an exciteable state, keen to get our personal telly's on and snuggle down for the night.

Saturday

We woke up the next day to glorious sunshine:

And we were off to the swimming pool.  It was rather good too.
There were loads of slides, water jets, showers and all the rest of it.
As well as a lazy river with inflatable tubes to bob around on.
The highlight was definitely the space bowl though.  I had to blag this one a bit as the age limit was set to over 8's but I made the height restriction so got away with it.
It was brilliant, I went first and after several trips around the bowl flopped into the splash pool head first, just like you're supposed to.  I took my position poolside to laugh at Dad as he plopped out with very little finesse.
Then it was my turn, the lifegaurd asked if I could swim, I replied in a confident manner that I could and then I was off.  I'm not going to lie, it was pretty scary stuff, the flume into the bowl got faster and faster until I popped out, shot round and round and round before plopping through the hole.  I made a swift and confident exit of the splash pool to make it look convincing and then met up with Dad and Ned to admit that it was so scary I nearly pooed myself, but at the same time it was totally awesome!
We then stoood and waited for Mum to appear, she did, upside down, soon followed by a spectacular splash.  We laughed our heads off.
With the sunshine beating in through the roof it felt lovely in the pool, but once we got back to the changing room the harsh reality of it still being February kicked in, the floor felt freezing on our poor little feet!
We headed back to the hotel.  I stopped off at the Games Port of course, it was so cool in there.
And I headed back to the room, where we found this cute little doggie made from a towel left on the bed:

Pretty much the coolest thing i'd ever seen I reckon?

We took lunch on the balcony, shielded from the wind and in lovely sunshine, I think Mum thought she was actually on holiday or something:

After lunch we hit the fairground, first up was the Twister, always a winner.

Yeah, we thought it was really slow at first, but the speed certainly crept up and we were soon pinning Mum or Dad to the outside of the seat.

Next up was the 'Trabant' or withces hat or whatever it was called. 

This was apparently Dad's favourite when he used to come here as a kid:

I can see why too, it was awesome, fast, spinny and it went right up on it's side.

Then on to his least favourite.......

Apparently he used to hate this when he was forced to go on it with Auntie Trish.  God knows why, it was brilliant:

Sadly the dodgems weren't working, which was a pity.

Never mind though, it was cool not having to pay for any of it and having as many goes as we liked.

We loved these wooden donkey.

We really loved these wooden donkeys, we sat on them every time we went past!

Next up we went to the main theatre to watch Dick vs Dom!

Yeah, the Dick and Dom from the telly, we were so excited about it, we didn't even realise they were on when we booked the weekend.

We went to sit down in the 'mosh pit at the front' and left Mum and Dad back in the seats.  They then announced that we might get messy down the front and we were only to stay there if our Mum and Dad were okay with that.....of course, we stayed well and truly put!

The show was hilarious and involved a series of silly games between team Dick, our side, and team Dom.

This lead to lots of Dick based jokes that the adults seem to find hysterically funny.

Sadly I didn't get up on stage to take part in any of the events despite trying my hardest, but I did manage to get covered in the crud and custard pies that got thrown around:

It really was a great fun show.

To top it off we got to get an autograph and a photo with them afterwards:

They were really nice chaps and we were proper chuffed to meet them and get our stuff signed, chers Dick and Dom.

It was really cool, we'd only just watched Genius that very morning too!

Next up was a quick go on the arcade, the highlight being this doubles air hockey:

Especially when the multi-puck was released and about 50 mini pucks descended onto the table.

They were flying about everywhere!

Well, the grown ups, being as dull as they were wanted to go for a walk along the beach.....it's unfathomable really.

Anyway, I managed to get the room safe to time out by fiddling with it so we couldn't get the car keys out for half an hour (our coats and wellies were in the car).

So by the time we finally left it was starting to get dark.

We really enjoyed it as usual though.  Wandering up the pebbles, throwing them in the sea and having a good old chat as wandered along.

We made it as far as the pier:

 
And then headed back.  Had a quick slouch about in the room.
I hit the games lounge of course.
And then went out to the restaurant for tea.
We had a lovely, civilized family meal too.
We did, it was really rather pleasant actually.
Especially the puddings, Dad really is a gutty pig though, his was massive and he polished off the lot!
We were pretty tired by this point, so we headed back to the room, had a cosy up and watched Ant and Dec's saturday night takeaway on +1.
Then slunk off to watch Take Me Out on out own telly's.

Sunday

Not so sunny today.

Nope, never mind though.  I went to the shop alone to secure the breakfast items. I had a shopping list and everything.  I got all the items required of course and really enjoyed doing something so responsible alone.

We had a lazy morning and then wandered off to the fair for a bit.

I stayed in the Games Port and said i'd come and find them when i'd had my fill of Gran Turismo.

The fair got off to a shaky start when Dad was made to come on the back of my horse on the carousel.  I was not happy about that at all.  Big enough to handle the space bowl at the pool but not ride solo on the horsey.  I endured the ride in total silence and couldn't wait to get off.

I got over it pretty quickly though and decided another go on the Twister was in order.

I arrived just in time to join them.

Which saved me getting wedged in with Mum and Dad on the ride.

Me and Dad ended up opposite Ellis and Mum which was brilliant.

It was, we could briefly wave at each other was we sped past.

Next up some trampoline action:

I then played hook a duck and got a reasonably high number, as I usually do on these chance based games.  I picked my prize, a lovely blue cuddly bird that I christened Tweety.

I had a go, and could only pick from the bottom shelf....as usual.  But there, nestling at the end of the shelf was a pile of whoopee cushions!  Brilliant, i'll take one of those please!

We spent the remainder of our pocket money on a stick of rock each.

We hit the arcade for a bit, I was quite the sharp shooter on this, much to everyones surprise!

I won enough prize tickets (combined with some i'd found laying about) to trade them in for a small packet of sweets, I was cheffed to bits.

I went after a motorbike keyring on the pennyfalls machine and after a lot of effort (and about 70p worth of two pence pieces) it slowly shuddered it's way into the coin trough below, result!

And then headed off for a Pizza Buffet lunch.

Lovely, salad, pizza, garlic bread, perfect.

We ate loads, even though I did drop a big heavy plate on the tiled floor while loading it up with pizza.  It hit me on the toe and then made a hell of a smash.  Everyone cheered of course, I didn't realise you had to cheer when someone publicly smashed something......it upset me a bit.

We ate our fill then waddled back to our room.

I hit the games port of course, until I got wind that there was a hot chocolate on offer in the cafe.

Mum and Dad and I saw that off and went upstairs for a lie down, watching some ice skating on the last day of the Olympics.

I hit the games port again.

And then it was back to the pool for an late afternoon splash about.

It was much less busy than Saturday which was nice.

And that pretty much bought our weekend away to a close.
We had to check round to make sure we'd packed everything, I had a quick snuggle in my cool bunk bed:

I helped load the car up,
While I played games.....
And threw a few shapes in the car park to the music coming out of the security gate hut.  I didn't think anything of it until the security man came across, told me he'd enjoyed my dancing and gave me a special Butlins pin badge.  I was completely made up with it.  Once we'd rounded Ned up and drove out through thee gate he stopped the car and said he'd managed to aquire one of the necklace things to put it on too, how cool!
All that and we were home in time for Top Gear too! 

Monday
Back to school then, we were fairly keen though, with our tales of our week off to share with or friends.
Pretty standard day really, dancing after school.  We had to make up our own dance routines in small groups.  We had to name ourselves, come up with a place we were from and why we thought we were going to win in a Britain's Got Talent style.
We named ourselves the Rocky Rock Star Girls from Slime-Land, and I declared that we were goig to win because I had a 'Flicky Hairstyle'  I got a really good laugh from all the mums and dads watching and our dance teacher Becky remarked that 'Only Ellis could come up with that'
I did cross country, Dad bundled me home as quick as he could afterwards as i'd packed my ancient jogging bottoms which were half way up my knee.....