Trampoling club again this week after ages of not going. I think having one at home is paying dividends, I got my seat drops spot on even though I was very tired and spent a good portion of the time trying to sleep on the outside cushions.
Swimming lessons then, still loving them, still really going for it. Dad reckons I must take after mum as i'm really fast across the pool.
We went for a visit to the park on Thursday after school, there were plenty of my friends there (mostly girls though).
And i'm well and truly big enough not to need any help at all from Dad on any of the stuff any more so he has nothing to do now really.
We came home and had another right good bounce on the trampoline, we've only not been on it one day since we had it.
I most certainly did not want to get up on Friday morning and couldn't understand why mum was trying to wake me up for nursery. Dad came to pick me up on the bike, we had a lovely ride home but I decided I didn't like riding too close to the canal. Dad tried to appease me by takingn a shortcut across the most bumpy field in the world. I didn't much like that either!
We went to the shops after tea to get some summer hats and the like.
I sniffed out a lovely Peppa Pig sun suit but the only one they had in my size was on a model on the shelf. We asked the helpful assistant very nicely and we soon had it arms and legs off to remove the items in question. Much hilarity and bewilderment ensued.
Saturday, Legoland:

About time too!
After a serious hat stealing incident at the ticket office involving a member of staff (ha ha) we were soon in the park.
We both lied to get on the little cars, Ellis was magically 3 and I was five again so we could get on together.
Truth be told, I wasn't very good at driving, but I enjoyed it all the same:

Not sure about the rigmarole we had to go through to get our driving licences though, I was however very proud of mine.

I had a starring role in the new Pirates show. I got to go on stage waving a pirate flag and then had to ring the bell to start the show. I loved it up there in front of everyone. I especially enjoyed being able to go round the back where all the pirates were waiting to start and having a chat with them.
Best of all was of course our ice creams in the sunshine:

And do you know what else, I went the whole day without my buggy, I walked everywhere, all day long, with my own little legs!
Party time on Sunday, this time Shimons belated one. The them was jungle animals. I'd decided a cheetah was the way forward. Dad cracked open the face paints for his first ever effort:

And he didn't do too bad a job to be fair to him:

Mum had sorted me out a lovely tail and furry ears to complete the look:

We had a great time at the party....
.....while we went to the town shops, again buggyless. Had a nice browse and topped up my wardrobe a little bit.
Monday was highly exciting, the boiler man was coming back again!
I missed him last time so I was eager to see what was going on too. The first thing I asked him was whether there was going to be an explosion or not. He liked that line of question I think. I helped him carry some of his stuff upstairs and asked him question after question until Dad marched me back downstairs so he could get on with his work...killjoy. I bet he'd much rather have spoken to me!

So we'll be getting right up to date eventually, but first lets go back to my birthday, i'm now 6!
Mum and Dad really came up with the goods this year with a trampoline...a rather large trampoline at that. I loved it, really loved it and have been for a bounce every day since i've had it. I must of course thank Andy and Uncle Alan for their help building the thing on monday night, in the dark and indeed cold. Top work chaps, you're welcome to come round for a bounce anytime you like. Then of course there was my party, I was sooooo excited about this it was frankly ridiculous. Weeks of meticulous planning had been done to make sure the event ran like clockwork (yeah right). Nine of my friends arrived and it was all on the trampoline...TOGETHER:

Amazingly no one got hurt which was a relief for Auntie Christine who was on duty while Mum and Dad 'busied' themselves indoors.
Speaking of indoors we soon had the Prodigy blaring out:

Before we settled down for a few traditional party games including pass the parcel (with a small packet of sweets inbetween each layer of paper to keep everyone happy):

We also had pin the spider on the web which I thought i'd won easily until Alastair beat me:

Then of course it was food time, I had put my order in with the caterers for sauasage rolls, Cheese, Ham and Marmite sarnies, cocktail sausages, beef monster much and cheesey balls:

Best of all though was the party poppers. Most of my friends had never seen such things before and didn't even know how to let them off. Once they worked it out though they loved them.
Then of course there was a caterpillar cake with 6 (yes six) candles:

WhichAlastair helped me to blow out:

It was such a great party, I can't wait until next year, i've started planning already........
Thanks as well to Auntie Christine for coming along and being such a good sport (hope you enjoyed your go on the trampoline once everyone had gone home).
We also saw Uncle Den, Auntie Gail and then Uncle Slim, all bearing gifts of course, thanks very much!
So the next day and we spent the day with our Aunties Christine and Trish (as wel as Uncle Ian of course). We went to the park, we went to pizza hut, we did some drawing we watched some telly and generally had a lovely time. Except for my rather fragrant bottom...ahem.
It was cut short by swimming lessons for me though, great chance to show off my prowess to Auntie Christine who decide to tag along with us.
Thursday was off to Dragon club for me.....
.........and Nursery for me until Dad came to get us. He knows how to keep us kids entertained and offered us a trip to the Supermarket.
I did manage to get him to take us to Sainsbury's instead though. I also got him to shelve any plans of a dull old tea by requesting a barbecue. He'd never decline that suggestion no matter what!
We had a visit from Grandad and Anne in the aftenoon, thanks for my presents.
And thanks for my singing Princess book and the amount of laughter we had while Mum attempted to sing along.
Then on to Friday then, with the amount of easter eggs and general birthday sweet things left kicking about the house baking club was put on hold for a week so it was a good job I got my fix at Dragon club. We baked bread, it was deeeeeelicious too. Dad said it was the nicest bread roll he'd ever eaten (I let him have half, and made hime share it with Ellis).
Then it was the weekend. We went to see (great) Grandma at her new home. It had a lovely sunny garden so we went out onto the patio with her to soak up some spring sunshine and entertain all the other old dears...they lapped it up!
Then it was onto see the Law's, as usual we had a great time in the garden, had a lovely barbecue and then all ended up snuggled up on the sofa watching Britains got Talent.
As if one party wasn't enough we then headed off to the Halfords, poor old Max had a poorly tummy and Ned soon crashed out leaving me and Leo to it, we have a great time together these days.
So after the previous late night we had a lazy morning on sunday before we headed out for lunch to the Szechuan, I was a rather worried about it all week as I don't think I like Chinese food. Anyway, they had chips and prawn crackers so I was happy, I even tried the seaweed (but didn't like it).
It was for Mum's birthday really, so Laura, James, Trish, Mark, Tracey, Slim, Auntie Christine and Ian were all in attendance. They all ate loads, I decided to have a tizzy instead.........
I soon calmed down when I realised bowling was on the agenda though, I love bowling so much:

I'm even enthusiastic when I knock just a few over:

Alan and Hayley came round later in the afternoon, apparently for my birthday present but we all know they really wanted a go on the trampoline!

So after a hectic weekend we were glad when it was Monday, there was still no school so Mum was off with us in the morning, lots of cuddles then, just the job.

And a trip to the park, can't be bad!

And then it was back to scool day today, I was sort of pleased to be back and to catch up with everyone. Apparently Dylan had been on and on to his mum about how good my party was all holidays.

But most exciting of all was the boiler man coming in the afternoon, he intrigued me and i had to keep making regular visits to the kitchen to see what he was up to....

Just for me to add a really big thank you for everyone who came to see me, gave me a card or indeed a present for my birhtday, I really had a lovely time.

Better late than never eh? A video of our holiday in Wales:

Long time no see eh?
We've been rather busy so sorry we're all behind. We'll do our best to catch up and get everyone up to speed.
With the car in the garage for an extended stay I got plenty of bike time in with Dad before we went away, I wasn't complaining, but he most certainly was!
I broke up from scool...hooray! I proudly bought home the easter cards that I had made. they really were very good even if I do say so myself. We lounged about for the afternoon, before Alan kindly came to pick us up in the Gayo to go and collect our car which was finally fixed. I think he enjoyed his 20 minute drive accross town with it's rapid fire question and answer session mixed with a good old dollop of utterly inane nonsense....
Friday was a bank holiday, but Mum went to work. This turned out to be a good move on her part as were able to make her birthday cards and sneak into town to get her a birthday cake. We also managed to fit in baking several hundred cookies and getting me some nice new wellies in preparation for our holiday in Wales.
The journey was soon dealt with.
Although I did not like driving along some of the high up roads through the mountains one little bit, Mum told me to shut my eyes which did seem to help.
I loved it, we saw snow and mountains and waterfalls and people canoeing, bike riding and rock climbing as well as loads of farm animals, best of all being all the baby lambs out in the fields.
And here we are, living it up in Snowdonia:

We stayed in a Barn that had been made into a house, Ned and I had a lovely big room to sleep in.

Yeah the house was lovely and big, plenty of places to go and explore or even maybe hide. We especially liked the wet room and it was much better than having a bath. Apparently it's the cleanest we've ever been what with all the shower and hot tub action.

We made sure we went in the hot tub at least once a day, one evening we even stayed in until the stars came out!

Of course it also just happened to be easter on our first full day, the bunny had found us and the hunt was on!

Easter? Did someone say easter?

Once we had gorged ourselves silly on chocolate we headed out to Criccieth, our nearest village with it's beach:

Next stop on the whirlwind tour was Pwhelli, where they had a fair. The bumper cars were totally brilliant, so brilliant in fact that they were too much fun to get the camera out at all!

Next up was the fastest motorbike i'd ever been on. So fast infact that after two white knuckle laps I wanted off.

Once i'd sacked off that dead weight it went even faster.

And then it was time for a more sedate moment, ice cream, surrounded by spring Daffodils:

Then it was on to a place rather menacingly called Hells Mouth, it was much nicer than it sounded though:

It was just like being in Cornwall with all the surfers about.

I got to fly our new kite (thanks Andy), I was really good at it too, it was a proper two string one and I soon got the hang of steering it and dive bombing families out for a lovely walk on the beach.

So then, trains....there's loads of them in North Wales so we were obviously going to sample some.

First up was the Ffestiniog, I took the oppurtunity to send Uncle Slim a postcard while we were on board:

While I decided to find myself a fancy luxurious seat for myself and baby:

It was a really good journey, we raced cars, we crossed rivers, we saw waterfalls and animals in their fields.

We stopped off at one of the stations on the way back, there was a playground that we loved and a smart bridge where you could get covered in steams from the trains passing below:

And to top it all off they were doing footplate rides. Dad and I had never done this before so we were dead keen. I asked the driver loads of questions about what everything did and couldn't believe how hot the firebox was when he opened the door. It was all a bit smelly though.

I loved it too after being gently coaxed aboard:

Ned and I pretended to be a train when we got off:

Back at base camp we ate our meals in the kitchen so we could keep an eye on Dads cooking and monitor his wine consumption. The stools were really high and spinny which obviously went down well with us.

I also insisted that every meal be candle lit (including breakfast), so many thanks to Auntie Christine for the tea light set she found us at her shop the other day:

It was at about this point I decided i'd investigate my bedside lamp a little further. However I don't think stick my two sucky fingers directly on the bulb was the best idea in the world. A loud shriek, two blisters and a lot of crying later and Mum was soon on hand with a glass of iced water to pllunge my seared finger tips into. She was really lovely and sat by my bed for ages until I dropped off to sleep. I understand Dad sat downsatirs watching telly and stuffing easter eggs down his gullet while all this was going on.

Out and about again, this time Portmeirion, or Porkmeirion as I decided it should be renamed. Weird place but great fun for exploring.

With loads of weird places to get into:

We took the buggy for a trip out, I think it was feeling neglected as I didn't use it all week now i'm sooooo big:

I was the advance party, scouting out all the best places and points of interest for everyone else:

And best of all of course, ICE CREAM:

And then on Wednesday it was of course Mum's birthday! I was so excited I was ready to burst. We got the presents and cards (of our usual very high standard) out of the way early doors and then headed out to the Snowdon Mountain Railway.

We couldn't get on for two hours so we headed to a slate museum (great playground) to kill some time.
We posed for soem photo's and I tried to catch a sheep (didn't manage it):

By the time our train left the cloud had lefted and it was pretty much sunny. We borded the train and headed up and up and up some more until we finally reached the (very nearly) top!

We jumped out of the train and headed straight for the snow, before settling down for our picnic:

We could see for miles and even the helicopters flew below us:

We posed for some scenic photo's, frightening some onlookers half to death that we were about to fall off the side of the mountain in the process:

It was soon time to board the train again to head back down:

As it was Mum's birthday (have we mentioned yet that she was actually 40?) we took her out for meal in the evening to a nice little place called Abersoch.

I had my dancing shoes on and everything, but there was no dancing in the restaurant we went to. What a shame eh? Didn't put me off though, I had a little shimmy all on my own anyway.

After the meal we headed back to the car via the harbour wall:

And then it was back to the house for the cake (percy pig with a 4 and a 0 candle, smart eh?)

I think Mum had a nice birthday, even though I did decide to run into her bedroom at 4am and throw up on her floor.............oops. Sorry Mum.

Another day, another outing. This time to Shell Island. So called because of the abundant shells apparently. I found a great rusty piece of metal that I reckoned looked like a crab claw, better than shells or what eh?

You stick to your rusty metal Ellis, I was all over the shells, there were millions:

There was of course a picnic, but this time in glorious sunshine with mountains in the background, Dad was really loving it all:

And then a kick about:

I put a rather harsh challenge in on Mum, she wasn't too happy with it at all. She reckoned she was going to get the biggest bruise in history on her leg, I think she was rather disappointed when it failed to materialise..........

Then it was off to explore the sand dunes:

Rolling down them was fun:

Unless you're as tiny as I am and you can easily get lost:

We obviously had to do some digging:

And some drawing:

And then it was our last proper day, off to Greenwood forest park for the day.

I finally got to have a go at some real archery, I loved it:

We drove tractors, I loved that too:

We rode sledges, I loved that:

But I loved it even more on the bigger faster version next door with Ned:

We had a boat ride, there was only one oar and I dropped it in the water:

Good job Mum managed to retrieve it.

It was okay Ned, there were ropes hanging down that Dad and I were pulling us along with anyway, you were wasting your time with the oar anyway!

There was loads of climbing of course:

And some brilliant pedal car things that Ned was really fast at pedalling, even if we did have a bit of a crash on the first lap:

And then there was the barefoot trail, I hated it, I have delicate little trotters you know.

I on the other hand loved it, so much so that me and my hobbit feet had two laps around it:

It was a rather good last day as it goes:

Oh yeah, they also did tattoo's, here's my piece (on my arm) in my best Emo picture:

So that was our holiday done and dusted. Despite Dad's scaremongering about the weather we had a lovely mostly sunny week, and hopefully Mum had a good birthday! The countdown has started for the next one, which just so happens to be on my birthday.

Birthday? Did someone say birthday? We'll be back with an update very soon on the subject of birthdays................