Had to make a card for my teacher in a bit of a rush Wednesday night...oops. Went a bit heavy with the glittery paint and it hadn't dried by Thursday morning. Mum had to perform an emergency scrape operation before we could take it to school for last day of term! And what a day it was, we spent all morning playing, ate lunch and then went home early.
Yeah, so that was nice to have him home earlier than usual even if it did interfere with my usual afternoon nap.
Dad was on a mission and decided that we had to go out somewhere, we went up to Combe Gibbet. It was pretty cool actually, really high up, so high up in fact we watched a helicopter flying about below us!

Dad explained what the gallows were for, but all that was hanging from them was a big bottle of Evian on some string?

Friday Mum was at home to look after us, we finally got round to painting our Easter mugs:



I contemplated my design long and hard before I started, but ultimatley ended up painting the whole thing red with a yellow stripe:



I had another party to go to in the afternoon, great fun!
Hmmm, I got the run of the house for a few hours.
Now then, the weather, summer is it? I think not, i've been wrapping up nice and warm for breakfast lately:

We had a trip to the pick your own farm on Saturday morning, we picked srawberries:

We picked (and ate a few) raspberries:

We went into the shop, bold as brass with our pink hands and faces to pay for our haul:

We even did a bit of climbing for good measure:

We ate all the strawberries after lunch with a combination of toppings....lovely!

In the afternoon it was Abi's 3rd birthday party. There were loads of people there and plenty of kids. Uncle Alan performed pushing duties very well:

As it was an away fixture we got to gorge on fruit shoots:

It was a great party, us kids even managed to sneak indoors to watch total wipeout!

Hope you had a happy birthday Abi!

Sunday was a trip to the swimming pool, the Coral Reef this time. It's been a while since we've been there and I really enjoyed it.

I had an early night in preparation for the week to come.....

Auntie Christine week!

It started off bright and early, a trip to Tesco for provisions and then on the train to Reading (where we bumped into Ted and his Mum) to go to the cinema. I'd never been before so it was a real eye opener. Ice Age 3 was the film and I loved it. After munching my own body weight in pick and mix we hit the shops. I almost completely decked myself out in camoflauge gear and got Ellis this lovely dress:

Dad couldn't stand the suspense and finally cracked at 7pm to find out where we were....ha ha!

And while Ned was having all this fun and excitement, what was I doing? Being picked up early from nursery as I wasn't feeling too good. Oh dear. Nothing really wrong, just a bit of a temperature and the occasional sleep......

Tuesday we couldn't keep up the relentless pace, we did however have a trip to Sainsbury's where we went into the new car park and pushed the trolley up the weird magic moving ramp. We played some 'giant' frisbee on the green all the way to the pub, but it was shut! Can't wait to see what we do tomorrow.....

As promised a few weeks ago, here's a picture of me cuddling Faye....cool or what?

I understand Abi has a few unorthodox techniques when it comes to handling her baby sister, good on you Abi, these younger sisters can be trouble unless you get them whipped into shape from the very start!
News form the little sister this week, i'm in pants (well sometimes anyway). I've been so good at asking for the potty that i've been treated to some Night Garden knickers...how cool is that?
Dad hasn't had to change a single soiled nappy for over a week now, he's very pleased. Poor old Mum has copped for the odd soggy lap though....oops.
I don't what all the fuss is about really, it's only going to the toilet isn't it?
My best friend Eva has gone up to the next room at nursery and we're missign each other terribly. So much so that i'm getting even more visits to the room than usual. I love it in the big kids room and can't wait to get in there full time!
Friday was Federation day (?) at school, there was a family picnic lunch (indoors because of the rain) and then there was a puppet show in the afternoon which Dad and Ellis gatecrashed, I was very pleased to see them though.
Yeah, I wasn't quite sure what to make of it at first, there was a really scary man dressed as a teddy and Ned and his mates made so much noise screaming and shouting during the show that I actually started to shake and clung to Dad as hard as I could. I soon got used to it though and loved it!
Then we were on to the weekend, I had Noah's party on Saturday lunchtime...excellent! I was dropped off and left to have a really great time. It was a pirate party and we all got really smart pirate tattoo's (i've managed to avoid having it washed off so far) and once again I won a prize for stick the beak on the parrot game!
While Ned was enjoying himself we had a lovely civilised trip to town, we browsed some shops and walked by the canal. There was no way I was going to go past the Pasty shop twice without tucking in so we had Pasties too.....yum! Don't tell Ned!
I came home with my party bag that contained, amongst other things...Black Jacks:

They make your tongue black, really black!

We loved them and wondered why we'd never had any before?

Saturday afternoon something really most odd happened.....we all had a sleep, at the same time! Now this never happens, Ned and I have a strict code of conduct that stipulates that when one of us nods off, the other must wake upp straight away. I don't know what went owrong in this situation but we'll do our best to make sure it doesn't happen again!

Auntie Christine came round for lunch (eventually) on Sunday! We were so excited, I even made some place cards for the table. She got to sit in the best spot (between Me and Ellis) and everything. We ate lunch, we played Monopoly and then we went down the park in the rain. Lovely.

Yes, we really enjoyed her company for the afternoon, rather than an hour before we're shipped off to bed so Mum and Dad can eat curry!

Okay then, healthy outdoor living supposed to be good for you isn't it? Not when you get your fingers stuck in your cycle helmet airvents like I did before our journey home from nursery last week...oww!

Parents evening fo real as well last week, well it was in the afternoon actually...which meant I got to hang around while my teacher told Mum, Dad and Ellis all about me...good job she only had good things to say then wasn't it!

In other news i'm hitting the old potty hard this week! There hasn't been a single poo to clean out of my nappy and they've all been directed into the plastic! How's that then? I even managed a wee in it today which pleased Mum no end!

So, social and out and about news this week. Friday night was a big group outing to Owens to play Rock Band and eat curry....well, I had my tea before I went and ended up in the creche (Owen's bed) watching Nanny McPhee with Ellis, Max, Leo, Abi and Mum.

Once Ned was fast asleep we all slipped out one by one to get back downstairs to find out what on earth the terrible racket was, turned out to be Dad singing and Ben trying to destroy the plastic drum kit like animal from the muppets....still, they enjoyed themselves.

We took Grandma to the park on saturday morning, we rode our bikes from her flat and then hit the skatepark for a bit:


We played on the park a bit too of course:


I'm still not quite there with my pedalling yet, but I enjoy it all the same:


As luck would have it, Luca and Hugo just so happened to show up, we're becoming regular weekend friends these days:

As if that wasn't enough, Shimon also turned up. We had a great time on the park and then I got to dazzle them with my bike skills.
Sunday we went to grandad and Anne's for lunch.
I showed Grandad the way to the park:

And let him help me up the ladder to the slide:

I had some slight balance issues:

But still had enough skills to give mum the slip without too much trouble:

I rode the weird roundabout in a very ladylike fashion with my dress on:

And then it was school sports day, how exciting! Mum got there early with Ellis, in plenty of time to get soaked. Dad turned up once the rain had stopped.....hmmmm.

After an early drenching, I sheltered in the buggy for a bit:

I came prepared with my chequered flag....

And put in a good display:

Of Usain Bolt style easing up way before the finish line:

Shame there weren't any real races.....

I decided the last 10 metres or so of the track would be suffiecient for my entry:

And picked up Ned's victorious line crossing style quick enough:

We're growing up! I've been making visits to the next room up at nursery with Eva. I loved it, she wasn't so sure. I'm sure she'll get to like it but I can't wait! In fact I love nursery so much that the only way Dad can get me to come home with him is to lure me with a ride home on the bike!
And i've been making visits to the infant school class that I will be in next year. Most importantly this means a whole new playground to play in as well as a new pick up point for Dad.
As mentioned last week, Saturday was a trip to the Cotswold wildlife park organised by nursery. We did well to get there on time and pretty soon there were loads of us waiting to get into the park.
Best of all my mate Hugo was there (from school) as well as Jacob and Ted that we used to go to nursery with, what a result! We soon headed off, lists and pens in hand to get spotting.
One of the first ticks on the list was the 'Bras as I like to call them:

Soon followed by the Lions, there was some debate as to whether or not you could claim a dead lion for your list...until the lazy creature finally moved...just a little bit.

As this was an organised trip there was no early picnic as we have become used to, we had to tough it out until 12:30!!! Didn't stop me trying to chance my arm though:

Hugo and I formed a very effiicient animal spotting unit and covered the ground quickly and effectively:

This was probably my my favourite animal of the day, a very smiley Tapir:

When lunch time did finally arrive, we were all a bit torn between eating, and the nearby playground:

But we still had animals to tick off:

And faces to pull:

And photo's to pose for with Matice, Ned, Hugo, Luca and me:

We tried to get the penguins to wear hats:

And then gave up:

The Lemurs weren't interested in hats at all, I thought they were rather like cats though:

The Meerkats were much more intertested in hats, they loved them! All the cool boys are sporting meerkat footprint in their hat this season:

We did really well spotting all 30 animals on the list! Hugo and I even took the completed form into school for a joint show and tell!

Yeah, i'm really pleased you had such a good time on MY trip Ned!

Oh and another thing, do you remember me telling yu all about the girl I played with in the airport in Italy? Well she was on the little train at the zoo! What are the chances of that?
Lovely big lie in on Sunday morning then, nice. Lovely big roast dinner, nice, and then off to my first party (no Ned either). Mum and I went alone, i had a great time bouncing:

I spent ages on this trike, I even tried to ride it up and down the slide, Dad would have been proud:

And then we got to tuck into loads of lovely party food:

Before heading off home for a bit of supper and an early night!

While Ellis was off enjoying herself with Mum, I stayed at home with dad. After I gave him a ruddy good hiding at pairs (honestly, it must have been embarassing for the goldfish brain) he managed to prize me off of the sofa for a bike trip to the park. It was deserted so I headed back home to get the ramp out and had a few goes on that. That was a bit strenuos though so we had an ice lolly sat on the grass and played a game of guess the colour of the next car that goes past.

Well summer is well and truly here so it's been a whirlwind of being outdoors, wearing hats and being smeared in suncream...yuk!
We went to the Chase with the Halford boys last week, had a very nice walk around:

We found some nice sticks of course:

We did some digging about with our sticks and threw some stones in the water:

I even managed to get a wet foot crossing a rather nifty brdige that Max made onto our own little island:

And then we pretended to be hunting Lions, which did my hayfever the world of good:

Thursday we had another outing to the park by bike, Ned managed to keep his eyes safe this time so that was a good thing I think.
On Friday we had to perform a french song for the Mum's coffee morning at school. Mum is usually at work but she made a special effort to get to this one one as I had asked her a few times. Anyway, we shuffled in and did our bit while Mum stuffed her face with a lovely dry croissant (we had butter and jam with ours later on, ha ha). She reckons I was really good, of course I was!
Saturday Dad must have wet the bed or something as he got up even earlier than me! I heard him creep downstairs though and offered to 'help' with the picnic...he was overjoyed about that. I made sure I woke Ellis and mum up as well for good measure.
Hmm, yeah thanks Ned, we were at the seaside in Mudeford by just after 9 in the morning so it was all worthwhile in the end:

We love walking along walls:

And we love parks:

I was intrigued by the lobster pots, even though they were a bit on the smelly side:

I got my wetsuit on and took dad for a paddle, Ned stayed dry though:

The main reason for us coming was to have the Teddy Bears picnic i'd been planning! I'd decided it was their birthday so we had cakes for them and everything. The truth behind it was that I had so much fun watching Dad try to light Ellis' candles outside on her birthday i was keen to replicate the amusement in a sea breeze:

We snoozed on the way home, just as well as we went to the pub in the evening with Andy, Ben, Rach, Kimi and Marney. We played, we climbed we drank fizzy coke, I visited the toilet several hundred times....

I ate Kimi's sausage and mash, even though i'd already had my own tea...you snooze you lose!!! Actually he didn't go to sleep.....

Even uncle Alan turned up just as the drinks were running dry...good timing or what! Anyway, we'd had a long day so had to go early at about 10:

While we were there I managed to sniff out a few walls to walk along:

Sunday we went to see Faye for the first time, she was really lovely, so lovely in fact that I gave her a cuddle (a picture may surface of this in the future).

Then Andy came round for lunch!
Before we headed off to visit Kin with his dodgy old leg, he's very fast at hopping!

Us kids had a whale of a time while the old codgers sat about on the patio.

It was wear your pyjamas day at nursery today, any excuse to dress up, I loved it! I wasn't so happy when Dad said I had to get chanegd when I got picked up though. I didn't realise we were going to the park to meet up with mum. As luck would have it we also bumped into Owen and Hannah so that was nice, we sat and had a nice cool drink...don't tell Ned!

Finally, after days and days of hot weather, Dad actually got round to getting the paddling pool out.

And I for one couldn't wait. I got in fully clothed while Ned still had the hosepipe filling it up. I got very wet, very quickly indeed:

We left it to fill up while we had a barbecue for tea, once that was all done and dusted we had a mass splash fight in the freezing cold water....it was great fun.

Home news this week...the stairgates are no more. Seeing as I am able to go up and downstairs on my own now and also the fact that I had worked out how to open them dad decided that he'd had enough of tripping over them and they are no more!

And last of all, we;re on a nursery trip to the Cotswold wildlife park this weekend, there's a sponsored animal hunt if anyones interested. We have a list of thirty animals, 30 sounds very ambitious with the amount of picnic stops we'll be having.....