Tuesday

Well it had finally arrived, my birthday at last.  I'd been counting down since Ned's in April.

I got up early enough so I could open my presents before Dad went to work.  I thought that was very good of me.  I had some cool stuff too, as well as the new trainers i'd bought myself back in Cornwall at Easter (yes they really did make me wait for them) I had some knee, elbow and wrist pads for my roller skates, a journal, that only opens when I speak my password at it, oh, and a nice new bike:

So no more bumping myself in the chin with my knees any more.  I was really pleased with it, especially as I really wanted a black bike!  I went to school with my massive I am 7 badge that Mum made sue she got me.

I had gymnastics after school, they gave me the bumps which was cool.  What was even cooler was getting my level 3 badge.  I didn't even need to do the splits as i'd feared.

I had a bit of a meltdown after lising my swimming hat and goggles during school swimming lessons.  Mum said I had to pay for new ones out of my own money.....

I had netball, i've been going for a whole year now.

Once we'd finished our sporting activities and picked Mum up, it was on with the main event, the birthday trip to Pizza Hut.

Once the garlic bread, salad bar and Pizza waere all done, it was time for pud.

Mum and I had a big old cookie dough sharer platter:

And I had an ice cream sundae, because I wanted a sparkler.  The trouble was that by the time it got to our table the sparkler had burnt itself out.  The waitress managed to find another one and lit it at the table for us!

We went home for a purely ceremonial cake (no one wanted to eat any after Pizza Hut)

My day was nicely rounded off by a video of Darcey singing me happy birthday that Auntie Christine sent us!

Wednesday

There's loads of dogs tethered to the fence theses days outside juniors when we go down to pick Ned up.  It's brilliant, I know all their names and have asked all the owners if it's okay to give them some fussing while we wait for Ned to come out.

When we got home I sorted my password out on my journal, it's so cool.  It's also got an invisible pen that   you can only see with the special little light thats inside it.

It was seriously annoying listening to her repeat the flipping password over and over again.

I took my bike out for it's maiden voyage after tea, although it might be very slightly too big I rode it really well and am looking really comfortable on it already.

Thursday

As if I wasn't having a cool enough week already, it was school trip day as well.  We went to Marwell Zoo, so, a pretty good prospect. The coach travel was obviously well exciting as were the animals, particularly the Amur Leopards (my current favourite)  and the meerkats.  What wasn't so great though was the lack of park or little train action!

Dad and I went to collect Mum's new bike after tea from a collection depot in Thatcham.

We were so excited about it, we've wanted her to get a bike for ages and she finally has.

When the bloke pulled it out of the warehouse it was in the biggest box I think i'd ever seen.  The man laughed and suggested we might like to take the bike out of the box before trying to get it in the car, which we duly did.  I had to crawl down inside the box to get the lovely basket and pedals out as they were stuck right down the other end.

When they got it home we helped unwrap it and build it up for Mum before she took it out for a spin around the block.  She seemd pretty pleased with it....

Although she lacked the excitment of Dad, Ellis and myself.

Friday

My swimming hat and goggles turned up on a chair at school, what a result!

We had Mufti day and I got to look cool in my new birthday trainers.

Cricket club only ran last term, so Dad didn't bother coming to get me after school.

Nah we stayed in the adventure playground.

I was greeted with a 'what are you doing here' comment from him when I made my way up there, caring parenting that is!

We had a barbecue for tea, Andy came to do a little electrical job so he joined us.

And so did Alan eventually, he was at a loose end with Hayley going out.  He bought some board games with him too.  We played Zombies!!!!! and I was allowed to join in.  It was epic, even though it did go on a little bit.  It was worth the late night though, I won!

Saturday

We went party shopping in the morning, food, drink, sweets, biscuits and small gifts for a luck dip in the place of party bags.

Yeah, it was a good trip, it went pretty well actually, we got some cool stuff.  Especially the giant marshmallows!  

In the afternoon it was the school fete, Anne came along too which was nice.

My last one at the infants.

I'm sure we'll find out what day it's on and keep going for a good few years yet though.

There were the usual fun and games on offer.

I won loads on the childs tombola.

I didn't.

Then I won guess how many sweets in the jar (560)

And I had my face painted:

Some of the sweets made my mouth and teeth very blue indeed as you can see above.

Mum had a stint on the adult tombola, that we loved helping her with.

And then Dad did his bit cooking on the barbecue, but just as his stint had started they had a load of undercooked sausages by the previous chef's bought back by unhappy customers.  He wasn't impressed that it made it look like he'd undercooked them!

The stall got a little light on helpers so I pitched in, manning the cold drinks station.  One of the other ladies asked how my maths was, Dad told her it was better than his....

When we got home I just sort of somehow managed to do the splits!  After months of trying, it just sort of happened:

Sunday

Dad and I were up early for a bike ride at Swinley forest.  We decided to tackle the blue and then the red trail today.  I certainly enjoyed the silence and total stillness of the woods in the early morning sunshine, it was lovely.  The ride seemed pretty hard work though, we were both pretty puffed out it has to be said.  There were some really good sections on the red trail, I got loose on the downhills and managed to keep it rubber side down, Dad was well impressed my skills.  He frightened me with his, he's a maniac if I don't keep him under control, screaming down the hills and doing jumps all over the place, at his age!!!!

I on the other hand had a lovely lazy morning, keeping myself fresh for my party that afternoon.

I had a quick power nap before lunch time.

Then it was a burst of frenzied activity to get everything ready for my party.

Ellis had chosen a good menu, pink wafers, chocolate fingers, crisps, sausages, sausage rolls, sandwiches, pizza, shame she also wanted carrot, cucumber and little tomatoes too.

We made our way to the gymnastics club, met up with Auntie Christine and Auntie Trish who were coming to help and then waited for my friends to arrive before heading into the gym for the warm up:

Then we got stuck into the real stuff:

Yep:

Dad did a good job rolling my friends around in the big tyre:

Amie and I loved the bouncy tumble track:

Auntie Christine pretty much stole the show with her ribbon floor routine it has to be said.

After an hour of this and with very red faces indeed it was time for food:

And then cake and candles and a good loud singing of happy birthday:

I loved it.  Thanks to my Aunties for all the fun and help we really appreciated it.

We went home and I made my way through my sack load of presents and cards.

But sadly there was no Catchphrase to watch as there was some celebrity football match on instead.

Monday

I'm getting seriously excited about the World Cup, it's been a hot topic at school thats for sure.

I've got another wobbly tooth on the go, it isn't quite ready to come out yet though.

We had our last Quad kids training session before the competition at the weekend.  We ended it with a serious waterfight, I was soaked!

The weekend had caught up with us, we were both proper tired in the evening.

So it was an early night all round....yawn.

Tuesday
I had my television appearance confirmed by one of the Mums in the playground after school, her two sons had shrieked that Ellis was on the telly, doing a dance, in my dressing gown.  So it was on, but it was in the morning, not the afternoon......what a shame we missed it.

Well, the last bit of afterschool netball was certainly a soggy affair, with a pretty hefty downpour forcing us indoors to sit it out until collection time.

I nearly mananaged to get a new leotard for gymnastics, but as usual Dad didn't have any money on him.  The new ones are really cool, and really red!

Wednesday

We did Go Givers again, involving a visit from the year two's.

Indeed we did, we got to go to Ned's class too.  Not sure Ned was too pleased to have me there, but neither was Ali after I twisted his arm right round during a bit of a wrestle!

I had my last swimming lesson (for now anyway), fun week, mats, dive sticks, water polo with Matice.  All great fun but it'll be nice to have a break from it I think.
Loom bands.
Yeah, Loom Bands!
We are all over these, twisting them away at any oppurtunity.
We do them at home...
At breakfast club....
In the car......
While Ellis is swimming......

Thursday

One of the ladies at Mum's work had been saving the Lego from the newspaper last week, Mum let us have it all today.
We had a lovely time before school building it all.
Then after school we got well and truly into our World Cup Sticker albums, much to Dad's disgust....

Friday

The last day of term was upon us.
An we are still not in our new classroom.  Progress does look good though, I reckon it'll be done soon.
Better hurry up, we've only got another half term left before we're done for the year.
Obviously with summer on the way, the weather is great, leading to cricket club being cancelled.
In addition to that, I had to miss the end of term school disco as well!
It was for a good reason though Ned, we were off to Cornwall.

Yeah, we hadn't been for ages, well, about five weeks anyway.
We had to stop earlier than our usual Exeter visit, due to the onset of hunger.
We did, the Burger King was up to it's usual standards, slow service and expensive.
But the Costa's was a disaster, no toasted sandwiches!  I had to make do with a M&S salad and a lump of cheese.
On the way back to the car we saw a little tiny dog, about the size of a guinea pig have a wee while half way accross the road.
What was remarkable though was the amount of wee that came out of such a small creature, there was litres and litres of it!

What with it being a bank holiday weekend and half term the traffic was a little bit on the heavy side so we were pretty late to the caravan.

Saturday

We had just about enough provisions to eek out a breakfast after a nice lie in.
And then we had a trip out to Tesco in Wadebridge for our 'Click and Collect' food order.
Yeah, with deliveries now being banned on the campsite we thought we'd give it a go.
It worked out very well too!

It was a lovely sunny morning, we helped Dad cut the grass around the caravan which we loved.
The Shepherds were all there too, including Connie the dog, who at a year old now was much bigger than last time we saw her.
She's lovely and enjoyed being made a fuss of.

We spent the rest of the day hanging about riding our scooters and my roller skates.

Before watching Britains Got Talent in the evening.

Sunday

After mum's wetsuit got ruined in California she's been looking for a replacement.

She tried four on last time we were down in Cornwall but didn't really like any of them.

She pinned all her hopes on a trip to Polzeath.

She found one she liked, tried it on and bought it.  How easy!

I also managed to snag a new pair of Crocs and got a free mini-croc-man ornalent thingy as well, he was well cool.

We had a walk accross the beach to the waters edge.

In the afternoon we went out with the Shepherds and Connie.

Firstly it was down the beach, we payed some cricket, played with the dog.

Fished the rock pools, did some climbing.

Then it was up to the swimming pool for a dip, it was pretty cold in there.

But Mum seemed to be enjoying her new wetsuit.

I jumped off the rock after a little bit of 'coaching' too, which impressed the onlookers.

We walked down to Constantine Bay, throwing a tennis ball for the dogs amusement.

She could run seriously fast when the ball needed fetching.

Monday

The weather wasn't quite so good today.

In fact it was pretty miserable out.

We made the best of it though with a few games of cards in the caravan.

And another walk with Connie.  She still loved fetching her ball.

She wasn't quite so keen on fetching it from the sea initially though but After a few paddles to collect the ball, I got a bit enthusiastic and launched it a looooong way out.  Connie had a good look at it, skipped out over the waves as far as she could go before taking the plunge and breaking into a full on doggie paddle.  Amy was delighted.

We sat on the rocks and threw a few catalogue poses and tried to find some suitable sized rocks for Sarah to practice for her forthcoming shot put competition.

We even had a barbecue with them for lunch which was really lovely.

Indeed it was, jacket potatoes with cheese and delicious homemade cakes too, why aren't all barbecues this good?  Thanks for having us over.

Tuesday

The weather was back to it's Cornish best again, it was a beautifully sunny day.

We headed to the Go kart track straight after breakfast, we were pretty much the first ones there.

How exciting, especially now i'm an old hand at it.

We couldn't wait to get out on the track.

Neither could the last of the junior's in line that rammed his cart into the back of us as we all waited to go out on the track.

I even got a jolt right at the front of the queue!

We were soon out on track though, it was brilliant.

I absolutely floored it and even managed to overtake a couple of grown ups in their more powerful karts.

Dad and I just managed to sneak past the marshall as he hung the chequered flag out  so we got ourselves a whole extra lap alone on the track.

We made our way back via the bakery to pick up lunch.

We took a leisurely lunch outside the caravan on the blanket, lovely, this is the lufe as Mum would say.

After we had refuelled we headed down the beach.

It was glorious.

A good spell of digging, climbing and swimming in the sea.

We also bumped into our next door neighbours, who were staying in the camping field in their motorhome, apparently they are pretty regular visitors to Treyarnon too!

The highlight of the afternoon for me was the sport of course.  Firstly our extreme boule championship, across the rocks and what have you and then some kingball.  Brilliant.

We had our tea enjoying the evening sunshine:

We had alovely walk after tea walk accross the headland on the other side of the beach.

And then Round to Constantine

Wednesday

Like the go karting, we got our annual trip to Bedruthan steps in early this year.

We really do like exploring down there, spot the Ned:

We spent the afternoon surfing back at Treyarnon.

Followed by tea at the Youth Hostel before setting off for home.
Hopefully we'll be back again soon......

Thursday

Despite our late night we were up early for a day with Auntie christine.

We started the day at the Marks and Spencer cafe.

For a delicious breakfast, the bacon bap nowcked the spots off Costa's too, three reashers of bacon rather than just the one.

After that it was off to Four Kingdoms farm park place.  Brilliant!

All the playgorunds and the cars and the bouncy slides were fantastic of course.

But the real highlight had to be the lamb feeding.

Oh it was lovely, the greedy little beasts couldn't get enough of their milk bottles that we were holding.

There may have been a little face painting too:

Friday

So after Laura made a rash comment about looking after us a few weeks ago, she had to go through with it.
We were very excitied to spend the day with Darcey and couldn't wait.
We went to see a circus up at Millets farm, so we got to have a decent ride in Laura's monster truck too!
It was great fun, and we certainly enjoyed the show.
The real highlight for me though came when we got back to Darceys house and Laura said we could have our nails painted and that we could choose the colour we wanted from her collection.  It was unbelievable, there were so many colours to choose from, how fantastic.  She made a really good job of it for us too, not the blobby mess Mum and Dad usually manage.

Saturday
For Alan's recent birthday, we got him tickets to go to a Board Games show up in Birmingham.
To tell the truth, Dad and I (and I suspect Hayley) were a little dubious about the whole affair.
Whereas Mum and I were beside ourselves with excitment.
We went to pick Alan up and all went up in our car, with Ned and I taking the two back seats...cool.
The journey was good fun, we got to have a proper good chat and a laugh with Alan and Hayley on the way.
After driving around several hundred roundabouts at the NEC we finally found where we supposed to be and parked up.
Their was a bus trip to the venue, a Hotel, which was pretty good fun.
Especially as Mum kept pressing the 'STOP' button on the bus with her shoulder unknowingly.  She found this hilarious.
When we entered we got handed a lanyard to wear, I thought this was pretty cool actually.
And after a bit of milling about we found the Family Games room.  
It was awesome, there was a massive Ticket To Ride Game which I was seriously impressed with.
Best of all, you could play any of the games, there were hundreds on offer:

So it wasn't quite as bad as i'd feared after all.  In fact, it was pretty good fun. Especially with the treasure hunt (for posters scattered around the venue, each giving you a letter to solve a mystery) as well, the prize being a cool glow in the dark wristband, we do love a wristband.

Team that up with cool chain mail and armour to wear and we were well on to a winner here:

It has to be said though, the attendees were mainly of the male variety, and some of them may have been just a little bit on the geeky side.

So it was a good job us ladies were on hand to provide a little bit of glamour, and we do love a game of Dobble:

In another of the rooms there were loads of games being played, I spotted a spare seat at a game of Ticket to Ride that was just about to start......and joined in!  Four grown ups to take on, complete strangers:

I had a brilliant time, couldn't quite pull off the win in the end but it was great fun.

Dad and I found a quiet corner while he was playing and had a few chapers from my Wishing Chair book.

We spent the whole day there, finishing off with another visit to the family games room where we managed to snag the Massive Ticket to Ride for a game.

That Mum played at the same time as playing me at a load of other games on an adjacent table.  True multi-tasking!  Thanks Mum.

We didn'ty get home until pretty late.....

Sunday

.....Meaning I didn't get up in time for the planned Sunday morning bike ride.
 Never mind, we all had a bit of a lay in which was nice.
I sneaked off to Tesco with Mum to do some secret Ellis birthday related business....
And then I settled down for some quality time with the telly.

While I helped Mum and Dad in a spot of car washing.  It was filthy, I don't think it had been done since last August.

We spent the afternoon doing various bits of home work, exciting huh?
Before I esscaped off out with the boys for a bit down the park.
And Mum and Dad took me up to the Wash Common park for a play:

Monday

We moved in to our brand new classroom today, how very exciting.  It's really lovely in there and will be nice to spend the next term in the luxury it provides after our time crammed into the room by the hall.

It was also my last day of being six......

Tuesday

Did I mention things not going as well as they could do at school? I've not had the best attitude on occasions lately and my teacher got a little worried about me.  Thing is, I keep getting overlooked when offering an answer during class and it really winds me up.  They have tried to explain why this might happen in a class of 30 but I can't help myself and often blurt answers out which leads to me getting told off and not taking it very well.  I think this is where it's all coming from, so we've all tried to get over it recently.  I'm getting a mini report sent home every day now, I think it's helping and i'm getting loads of really good, positive comments.

In other school news us year 2's are doing our SAT tests whatever they are. It doesn't bother me, why should it, after all I got 15 out of 10 in my numeracy test!

We can tell summer is well and truly on the way as the big side door at gymnastics was open for the first time this year, good stuff!

Wednesday

It was results week at swimming, sadly I hadn't passed even though i'd done really well.

I think I might give lessons a rest over the summer, which ought to please Dad and Ned.

Thursday

I attained my platinum award for 11 and 12 times tables, proper chuffed I was too.

After school dance was good this week, we got to work out our own routines in groups. I worked with Ben, Joe and Jamie, 

I think we put on an excellent show too.

I had a rubbish day at school and seemed to get told off all the time for nothing as far as I can work out.  Mum and Dad were in no way sympathetic to my cause though and just accused me of faffing about when I should have been listening.  Nice to have parental support isn't it?

We helped Dad make chocolate brownies for Friday night tea.  
My friend Amy was coming for tea and i'd told her how epic Dad's brownies were and she wanted to try them.

Friday

Sadly my triple cricket extravaganza (PE, Golden Time and after school club) failed to come off when we had to do ICT instead during golden time. It was rubbish ICT with loads of typing too, not happy.

I had Amy round for tea, so I was chuffed to bits.  We had a great time, played in the garden, bounced on the trampoline, made perfume from some flowers, proper cool girls stuff.  She loved the brownies!

When I got home I gave them a wide berth and decided to offer Dad advice on the barbecue he was assembling in the dining room.

Saturday

Mum had booked me an eye test for first thing Saturday morning.  I've been rbbing my eyes quite a bit on and off since way before hayfever season was a possibilty.  I've also been squinting at the telly apparently.  I was pretty worried about the whole thing and I wasn't sure that I wanted to wear glasses.  Turns out I needn't have worried, everything was fine vision wise and the test itself was pretty cool.  Mum reckons she saw charts for me that she'd never even dreamed of getting to.

We then spent a while helping Mum find some new glasses.

Well, when we say helping, what we really mean was thrusting hundreds of pairs under her nose for her to try on.

It was a fairly inconclusive process it has to be said.

I finally parted with some of my birthday money in John Lewis.  I was really taken with the lava lamp I saw in there the other week.  After much deliberation I decided on the model and colour and placed my order on the self service terminal, ready for collection on Sunday.

I spent the afternoon having a nice old slump in front of the telly.

While I had a game of Catan with Mum and Dad.  I let Mum win for once, but had the largest army anyone had ever seen!

Well it was a lovely day, there was a football match on telly, lets have a barbecue!

Yep, good idea, Alan And Hayley, Andy, Owen and Laura and Darcey came round.

We had a great time, everyone loved having a bounce on the trampoline with us.

Sunday

I'd been hastling Dad for weeks for a bike ride, he finally agreed on the condition we left bright and early on Sunday morning.  I think he was pretty surprised when I crept into his room at 6:20 am.  He sprang out of bed, packed some stuff and we were on our way to Swinley Forest in Bracknell.  We were there for 7:20 pretty much the only ones in the car park.  We kitted up and headed out on the Blue trail, just over 6 miles.  There were ups, downs, drops, jumps, berms...pretty action packed.  I didn't have to wait for Dad too much either.  We completed the lap pretty quickly, did a quick trip round the green beginneres trail and then headed out round the blue again.  I loved it and can't wait to come back and try the Red route.

I had Eloise's craft party in the afternoon.  It was great fun, we decorated our own cakes, made pipe cleaner butterflies (i made two and gave one to Sacha as she struggled a bit with hers) did some masaics and made and flew paper aeroplanes.

While Ellis was partying I went to collect my lava lamp.  It is so cool, thanks to anyone who gave me money.  I loved falling asleep watching it do it's thing.

Monday

We made up our own dance in small groups at after school dance club.  I got together with Harry and William.  Our routine basically involved me dancing and prancing about while the boys staged a comedy mock fight/argument.  Quite arty i'm sure you'll agree.

Quad kids finished with water squirting from our drinks bottles, well, it was a hot day and we'd been training hard!

Tuesday

Well I had Gymnastics at school and after scool today.  The people from the gymnastics club are coming into school to teach us all, how cool is that?

We had Netball with no year six players this week, they are concentrating on their SAT's now so thats that for them and we're the senior players now.

Wednesday

Well i'm still waiting for the last few stragglers to reply to my party invites.....it's only a few days away.

I had my swimming lesson, the best thing about it was the walk there.  Ned and I have worked out that a short, stout stick dragged along the fence alongside the cricket makes a most satisfying sound.

Yeah, it's great, you can change the noise by running, walking, up or down.

Dad bought a sample invitation for my party home from work.  I gave him a very detailed design brief, which he managed to fulfill. I authorised the full production print run.

Thursday

I love Thursday, much as I love dance, gymnastics and swimming I do love having no clubs and a Ned free hour after school to chill out with the telly.

Friday

Golden time this week ended up being needlework.  It was actually pretty brilliant, I learned loads of different types of stitching, i never knew even existed.

Cricket club was cancelled this week, which was a shame as I was really looking forward to it.

We cheered him up by going to Tesco to choose the sweets and cake for his party bags though.

Yeah, I loved that.  Cheered me right up.
I also wrote out my party invites to hand out at school next week!

Saturday

Well my Quad kids was cancelled as it was supposed to be wet and windy.

That meant we could stay in and concentrate on my television appearance.

Except we didn't see her.

Nope, if it was on we must have missed it.  Still, it was a nice chance for some snuggling up:

My friend Robert came round mid afternoon.  We'd arranged for him to come home from Quadkids with us for some Xbox before my party so this meant we got even more Xbox time.

He was pretty good fun, I liked him.
It was party time, we went to pick up Hugo on the way and headed for the pool.  So, this Wobsticle thing, it's an infatible, two lane assault course type thing that stretches two thirds of the way down the pool, a bit like total wipeout I suppose?
Alastair had forgotten his trunks, he didn't want to go in his pants and didn't want Dad to buy him any new ones from the shop at the Centre.  We left a voicemail for his Mum and Dad to bail him out.....
Apparently you had to be 8 years old to join in.....well, i'm pretty tall and i'm nearly 7.  So we decided i'd give it a go too. I hadn't bargained on Ned's friends being such a bunch of dobbers though, first off telling the man I was seven, and then, telling him I was six.  Anyway, he said he didn't care as long as I passed the swimming test we all had to do.
We had to swim a width and then a length of the pool, which we all managed thankfully.
By this point Ali had his trunks delivered and joined us.
But there was drama pretty much straight away when Liam got into a bit of a situation after he slid off the slide at the end and used Chokoon as a bouyancy aid.  Before we knew it the life gaurd was in the water dragging the pair of them out.  
He did say he was a bit eager to get in and they would have most liely been okay, still, better safe than sorry.
The rest of us carried on and had a great time.  We raced each other, fell off, splashed, slipped and all the rest of it.
It was pretty tiring it has to be said, but I had Ella keeping an eye on me.
Teagan lost a tooth and managed not to lose it, mum wrapped it in a tissue for her.
The hour or so we had in the water flew by and it was soon time to get out.
Mum was amazed how quickly we all got changed afterwards.
All we had to do was hand out the party bags, which went down very well indeed.

We dropped Liam off at home, then Hugo.

Then I unwrapped my presents, the highlight of which (aside from the brilliant Castle Lego set from Tegan) were the sweets, lots of lovely sweets:

It was the usual Saturday night routine after that, Britains Got Talent with Ellis buzzing every act with the app on her Ipod.
I am a bit trigger happy, it must be said.
As an added bonus we also watched the end of the Eurovision song contest....it's weird.

Sunday

We were going to have a day out somewhere or another, but after a bit of a lay in and a weather forecast warning of heavy rain in the afternoon we decided on a quick jaunt to Snelsmore with the bikes.
It was great fun, pretty muddy so loads of sliding about in the gloop.
The rope swings were as brilliant as ever.
In the afternoon we went into town to try and get some bits and bobs.
I perused Game to see what I might spend my vouchers on.
And I ended up in Blacks to get a new raincoat for the summer.
We made friends with this chap:

He was a bit quiet.
We headed home and had a game of Labyrinth.

Monday

Well I had a rubbish day at school.  I seemed to be getting it in the neck from all angles for everything.  I came home and had a cry about it all.

Quad kids practice resumed after school, what with the competition being pushed back into next month so that was good.

Tuesday

I've been a little bit unsettled lately, in need of a lot of cuddles and prone to teary outbursts.  Mum reckons it's down to tiredness after holidays.  I think it's just because I miss everyone when it's back to school time after we're together so much.

This made Dad leaving me at gymnastics a bit more of an ordeal than usual.  But I did enjoy the silly radio quiz 'Real or Real' on the way there in the car, I always beat Dad, he's rubbish at it.

No such issues from me, at least I had my upcoming party to occupy my time.  We'd sorted out the guest list and written out the invites.  This year i'm going to have a 'Wobsticle' party at the swimming pool.

We discussed the matters of our day over our evening meal, today what really got me wound up was the realisation that teachers don't have to wear uniform to school like we do. Not just that though, they get to wear all the jewellery they like, how can that be fair?

I stunned everyone by doing voluntary homework, with absoloutley no prompting from Mum or Dad at all.  I reasoned that if I got it all done and out of the way i'd have none to do over the weekend and I could get some Xbox time free from hassle.

Wednesday

Well I had a great day at school, did loads of good writing and got used as an example to the rest of the class.

Thursday

We had a school trip to the Highclere Estate.  It was great, we learned about sheep farming (with sheep dogs), crop farming (got to bag our own grain), visiting the herb gardens and whole bunch of other stuff.  Our guide for the day, Lord Carnarvon himself no less!

Back at school we did some tree planting in our new garden.  It was brilliant, it chucked it down with rain so we got soaked as well as really muddy, my perfect day!  I came home with three carrier bags full of stuff, two of which contained damp, muddy and sopping wet clothes.

Friday

First week of after school cricket club.  I loved it, I was able to whack the ball for miles with the bat and fielding was a breeze with my super throwing arm skills.

We went to the park while he was cricketing.  I had a go on Ned's big bike, I got on pretty well with it too, when I worked out how to make it stop.

Saturday

Had a trip out to Monkey World on Saturday.

We did, with Kimi and Marny which made it much more exciting.

It was a lovely sunny day so it was good to get out and about a bit.

The monkeys,

And Apes were a bit of an inconvenience in between all the parks to be honest.

Although the Urang's were really good fun, antagonising each other.

And the baby chimp was seriously cute.

I'll never complain about a wet wipe round the chops again either, having seen the Mummy chimp lick the baby's entire face to try and clean it.

Sunday

Nice lazy morning followed by Costa's for lunch and a trip to Toys R Us to exchange a duplicate birthday present. Not strictly Alan's fault this time I must confess.

We also called in at a bike shop to try and get mum some wheels sorted out, but it was rubbish and they only really had mens road bikes in stock.

Dad was grumbling.

There wasn't even many kids ones for me to throw a leg over, rubbish.

Abi and Faye came round in the evening.

I loved showing them my ghost hunt game.

Even if poor old Faye didn't quite get the hang of it.

I think the main reason for their visit was so the grown ups could play board games.  I was pretty disappointed when they started playing Ticket to ride without me.

We helped him get over his disappointment with pretzels and popcorn and some DVD's

At least I got to join in with a few games of Jungle Speed later on.

Monday

Bank holiday, another day off.

After a late night last night, we were in no hurrry this morning.

Nope, a leisurely viewing Despicable Me 2 fitted the bill nicely.

I did a bit of Lego, loving the castle stuff I got for my birthday:

The landline rang in the house, this is a very rare event indeed.  Mum lunged to answer it, an even rarer event that someone actually could be borhered to answer what would surely prove to be a double glazing sales pitch or something.  But no, it wasn't a cold call, not at a all.  It was in actual fact the BBC!  Asking if they could broadcast the video me and Mum recorded and submitted of me doing the 'Dressing gown monkey dance' for a feature they do on CBBC (freeview channel 70).  So i'm going to be on telly sometime next Saturday afternoon, how exciting.

We had a nice bath and some proper nice hairstyling (long curls and some fringe business) before Darceys third birthday party.

And Uncle Slims birthday too, but he's a little bit older than three I think?

All the usual suspects were there and we had a lovely time.

Of course, the catering was of an extremely high standard.