It was a dark day for fashion on Tuesday. I made my own trousers soaking wet playing in the water at nursery and had no spares in my bag.  That meant nursery trousers.  Oh no.  Not only that, they were dark blue cords....boys torusers!  I was so upset about it, I cried all the way back to the car when Dad picked me up.. he couldn't understand what the fuss was all about, he doesn't know anything!

I didn't bother with the Easter meal at school, the things on offer didn't make the grade so I settled for a marmite sandwich instead.

One thing I have been loving at the moment is blossom on all the trees and bushes.  I love it, all pretty and blowing around on the wind.

Mum came to my Easter assembly on Thursday morning.  I had an important job at the end of my class row so they had to come and go on my prompting.  I didn't let that put me off giving the singing 100% though.  Once again she did the business and got a seat on the front row.

I also got to go to Tesco for the shopping trip.  I quite enjoyed it actually.  I think Dad enjoyed having another little helper too.

As if that wasn't enopugh excitement for one day ot was also Mum's birthday.  We'd spent ages making the cards and wrapping the presents so couldn't wait for her to finally finish work:

She did her cards and presents and then it was the main event, the cake!
We got her a Colin the Caterpillar this year.
Yes and he was delicious.
It was the last day of term on Friday, we spent most of the day ou ton the field in the sunshine playing games.
We had to pick Ned up especially early from school so made the most of it by going to the park.
I think everyone had the same idea, there were hundreds of us down there and we had a great time. 
We took our bikes and I finally got to silence a few of my friends who thought they were faster than me (mentioning no names here of course).
I held my own with the bigger kids on all the new play stuff.
Dad pushed me and a load of my class mates super high in the basket swing and
I even got involved in a game of football, unlike Dad I wasn't picked last!  In fact I was picked first.
We headed off for a well earned ice lolly at home.
Once we'd had five minutes rest it was trampoline time, which ended a little badly.
Ned bumped me in the cheek and it really hurt.  I had a good old cry about that one.
It was soon forgot about when Auntie Trish arrived for babysitting duties though.  Once we had got rid of mum and we had a lovely time.
And I got to grips with my new 'Boy stuff Top Secret' book.  There's loads of things to fill in, I've hardly put it down since I got it.
After some early morning baking action with Mum (yes Mum you read right) we had a trip out to the theatre with the Aunties on Saturday morning.
To watch a man do tricks with bubble blowing.  He had some serious skills.
He could blow bubbles big enough for children to get into!
We went to the park afterwards, which was great fun but I think it helped contribute to the blisters I developed on my feet....ouch!  All dad's fault as well, making me wear my sparkly shoes (although I did look lovely).
In the evening we went straight round to Abi and Fayes to play while the grown ups stayed in and did boring stuff.
Abi's new play house was seriously cool at the top of the garden, though she did enforce a strict shoes off rule (well it was luxuriously carpeted).
I got to dazzle everyone with my new found swing skills.
Once it got a bit later we took to the beanbags with a big bowl of popcorn to watch some DVD's and have a snooze.  Perfect.
Sunday was the biggest event of the year, my family birthday outing to the Szechuan.  I had been getting excited about this for weeks.
And so was I, even if I only like chips and don't really care much for chinese food:

It was a really good turnout and took some considerable effort to 'work the room'

Although I think between us we managed it okay:

I was even allowed a pudding:

I'd like to thank everyone for coming along, even those of us who were feeling al ittle 'delicate' after Auntie Christines 'retirement' party in town on Saturday night. 

I know, I can't believe she's old enough to retire either!

Just so as she could start enjoying the easy life, she looked after us for the day today, she'll wish she was back at work before long.

We had a lovely day and only watched  a little bit of The Sound of Music this time round.  Still, there's always next time.

I finally managed to complete one of my homework challenges from school this week.  We've been studying space so i'm proper keen.  I drew a lovely diagram of our solar system and made sure all the planets were the correct size and colour and included the appropriate rings and what have you.

We went out shopping form Mum's mothers day present on Tuesday afternoon.  In the spirit of top secret present buying, I fell asleep in the buggy and didn't even see what Dad was buying on our behalf so there was no way I could blab.

I'd already put my present request in for mothers day, a large box on Lindor chocolates.

On Wednesday we went to the Fair Close old peoples home to deliver the money we raised from the cake sale.  We did them a few songs and hung out for a bit and we really enjoyed it.  I  especially enjoyed walking there and back with all my friends.

After we picked Ned up from school in Thursday we went to the big park in town.  I got to do loads of climbing which i'm really into at the moment:

 We loved the springy see-saw until Dad nearly pinged us off it and we got bruised bums:

I was a bit disappointed that the old skatepark had been taken down and the new one was still just a few piles of rubble though.

I also bought Mum home some flowers from nursery that we had bundled up for  mothers day, we decided she could have them early because i'm good like that.

On friday I bought her home some peppermint creams i'd made her at nursery too.  They also didn't last until the actual Mothers day. 

We also had a busy creative session making mothers day cards.

Yeah, we covered all bases of course, glitter, glue and loads of sticking.

I went to get new school shoes on Friday after Mum finished work.  I'm now a whopping great 13H!

We had a Friday night disco session after tea, I do love strutting my moves of an evening.

Saturday, we had a boys and girls split.

Dad and I headed for Gosport BMX track for a coaching session (for me, he's way beyond help).  We got there nice and early and had a good few laps before anyone else turned up.  I shouted at Dad every time he overtook me of course.  It was really good fun when the lesson began and there were loads of us joining in.  We did some sprints, some cone slalom, and practised bunny hopping before getting a few lessons on gate starts on the track proper.  I was dead keen on taking it all in and making sure i was close enough to the front to hear what was being said, i'm dead serious about getting faster.

Mum and I had a leisiurely morning at home.  We got all my toys out and had a good old play session before heading off down the park.  Ned's friend Ben was there and his little sister Lilly and we had a great time, shame Ned missed it really.  We went to the shop after we'd finished at the park and I reckon Ned must have smelt the lolly i'd got him as they arrived just as we were leaving.

I do love my BMX riding, but I think I love my sister a little bit more, we had a nice cuddle.

After lunch we went to the Coral Reef for a swim, just to keep Ellis happy.

Yeah, I love swimming the most.  I had a big smile on my face the whole time.  Even when we had to go through the tunnel to the outside section! 

I actually quite enjoyed it too, especially all the jumping in and best of all the diving.  I've really got my dives down now.  There were a bunch of lads on something that Dad said must have been on a stag do at the pool, I joined in there game of splash, they loved that.  Thigs were all a bit weird outside though as the one that was wearing a ladies bikini in the pool had been cling filmed to a lamp post in the car park.  He seemd to find it all quite amusing and a passer by was helping him escape.  Very weird. 

Had a bit of lazy morning on Sunday, giving mum her presents and cards, she was well pleased of course.  I even made her breakfast for her.

The we headed off for the seaside.

It all seemed like a good idea, but when we actually got on the beach it was freezing and windy and I didn't like it.

I wasn't quite so bothered,  even if it did take ages for the bacon to cook because of the wind on the stove flame:

I got Mum to tuck my cardy in, a rather pathetic effort to try and retain some body heat:

I wasn't too cold for an ice cream though, no way.
Me neither.  Or for a game of chase the tide up and down the beach or some good old fashioned stone throwing.

I've taken to applying a little bit of lippy and some eye shadow every now and again when we go to pick Ned up from school, well, you never know who you might bump into do you? I've also been making loads and loads of pirate treasure maps recently at nursery. I'm not quite down with the proper lingo though, X marks the Spencer according to Ellis.

Another thing i've been doing a lot of lately is finger clicking. I love it even more as Ned can't do it. I like to precede a finger click by saying 'check me out' and then wafting my hand through the air with a nice crisp click.

Nursery must have been feeling particularly brave on Wednesday as they took us all on a group outing to the park at Northcroft. We had a great time of course, especially when we al rolled down the big hill.

I was a lot happier at multisports this week as firstly it didn't clash with a cake sale and secondly we were playing tennis. I love tennis.

We hit the shops hard on Thursday as we had to get all Ned's requirements for tea, he had a friend coming round.

Yes, I did, Tegan. She's really cool, has a BMX and a collection of those mini skateboards. When we got in she produced a bag of sticky lizards that stuck to the roof really nicely. We did making, we did Lego, we played in the garden for a bit and then we had super long spaghetti, garlic bread and super gooey chocolate cake and cream for pudding.

I couldn't work out why she wasn't interested in my pink sparkly ponies?

We took her home after tea and got to invade her house, she even has a Nerf gun!

We went to see Mum at lunchtime but we didn't go anywhere for dinner. I was not happy about that especially as it was pasta for lunch at nursery and our dislike for pasta is well known. Mum came to the rescue though and got me a cookie from Marks and Spencers no less. We went to pay Auntie Christine a visit at her shop. She was pretty excited with it being her birthday and all, so we timed that really well and got to take some of her birthday cake home with us.

We went to the park after school, the new bit still wasn't open.

We still had a good time though.

Yeah, loads of our friends were there to play with as well.

Sue came round to look after us on Friday night, we hadn't seen her for ages.

She bought us some comics and my Scooby Doo was so cool i've barely let it out of my sight since. I've particularly loved all the brilliant monster pictures to colour in.

The weekend started with a trip to trampolining on Saturday morning as I didn't get to go on Wednesday.

But this time I was allowed to come along too.

We both loved it, I got to show Mum and Ned all my tricks.

And once i'd calmed down a bit I did some really good controlled tricks. I hope we get to go again soon.

Once that was finished we headed into town for haircuts.

We LOVE haircuts.

I really enjoyed sitting in the chair and being brushed and trimmed and generally made a fuss of.
I sat with my trademark stern face throughout the whole thing and couldn't wait to get my hands on my lolly.

We headed home for lunch and five minutes calm before Luca came round for the afternoon.

Yeah, thats right, Hugo's little brother!

It was nice to have one of my friends round, I got to show him all my toys and best of all my lovely cat. We played out in the garden and even helped do some gardening with Mum and Dad before we had a bounce on the trampoline.

Yeah, Dad set the trampoline up for the summer season again.

We went to the Wash Common park, but Mum overdid the pushing on one of the roundabouts and poor old Luca didn't like it. In fact, he wanted to go back to our house for something to eat. This time it was my turn to feed my friend super long spaghetti.

His mum and Dad came back to get him halfway through though, so Hugo and Matice got to come in and play until he was finished which was brilliant.

Auntie Christine was babysitting in the evening so we had a nice quiet one with her.

Then in Sunday it was Legoland day! Things didn't look good when we arrived and had to park further away than we ever have done before...it was going to be busy, busy, busy!

It certainly was, there was a lot queueing to be done but we made the best of it and had a good time, even if we did vow to come back soon once the weather wasn't quite so nice or something?

Yeah, It was well worth it just to see how wet one man can get on the viking river rapids. No one is ever going to sit next to Dad on that again, he's a water magnet or something!

We went to the park again tonight after school, but finally some good news, the fence has gone!

Which meant we could really get into the new stuff. We love it, especially the slide, it's tall and really curly. I soon decided it wasn't exciting enough though and decide I should go down it head first and on my back. It was quite a brave move and by the time I got to the bottom I was somehow the right way round. It was so risky in fact that Ned decided having a go himself.

After what must have been a rush of blood to the head I managed to get myself re-enrolled in swimming lessons.  It was my first one on Tuesday and I found it all a bit of a struggle if truth be told.  Well, I hadn't been for what must be nearly a year and the first thing I had to do was front crawl across the big pool (which was FREEZING).  I'm not good at front crawl though, had it been backstroke I would have been well in there.  I picked up a bit towards the end though and was really good at retrieving things from the bottom of the pool and of course my backstroke width.  Hopefully next time won't be quite so traumatic.

Hmmm, I wasn't too great at trampolining this week either.  In fact I decided having a kip on the side of the trampoline was the way forward instead.  In fact I was feeling pretty under the weather and hadn't had a good nights sleep.

It was multi sports club in Wednesday after school again, but this week I was not so happy about it as it clashed with our charity cake sale.  I had to miss out on cakes!  We'd spent two days making them at school and everything.  I kept on and on about it all night, Dad was really sympathetic but I knew I could rely on Mum.  She had a word at school next day and there just so happened to be more than enough cakes leftover.  I was mighty pleased about that and managed to stuff myself and even get one for Ellis (with a pink Mini Egg on top no less).

Dad also found some of my race pictures out on the internet, I was pretty pleased with them too, much better than his and Mum's efforts:

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I felt a lot better on Thursday, no doubt due to the Calpol Mum was feeding me. 

Excitement central for tea time, Andy was round!

There is of course a downside to this, parents evening...AGAIN!  I had nothing to worry about by all accounts though, i'm doing pretty much as well as I should except in maths, where i'm even better!

We had a game of build a beetle while Mum and Dad were gone which was nice.

And we didn't even resort to any shouting or squabbling.

The weekend was soon on us and yet again we had to go to Wantage for cars.

At least this time we actually got one though, even if it is pretty much the same as the last one, albeit a bit nicer....

.........and it doesn't smell of Ellis' cheese sandwich sick which is nice.

There was a bit of flaw in Dad's plan for the afternoon, the boat yard in Abingdon hadn't opened yet for the season even though it was a lovely sunny day.  So our plans of  a leisurley afternoon cruising the river Thames became an afternoon in the park and an ice cream.

There was a pretty big slide by todays standards:

It got Mum and Dad talking about when they were kids and there was a huge slide in Victoria Park or something.........yawn.

Biggest news of all though was that I finally managed to get on a swing and get it going really high with no help at all.  Atter all these years i've finally achieved what looked to be impossible.  Jumped off it from a pretty impressive height too!

And I got to show off my climbing prowess on stuff that was meant for much bigger kids, i'm getting like Spiderman these days!

Grandad and Anne and Alan and Hayley came round for dinner on Sunday. 

There was obviously a massive fuss over who was going to sit where and mum managed to broker a deal to keep all the parties concerned happy.

After lunch we forced Alan into going for a walk in the sunshine.  We went to the park for a bit, he reckons he hated it.

I didn't as we managed to find a hole in the fence of the new park equipment and test it all out.  It was brilliant and it's a shame it's all still fenced off. 

I hope we don't get into trouble for going on there.......

Had a few issues last Tuesday.  First of all, Mum came home from work at lunchtime as she was poorly.  Unluckily for her, Dad had taken the bike to work so when she rang him at lunchtime the best he could offer her was a ride on the crossbar of the bike home.  It was lovely to walk home with her though, dad pushing his bike with me in the back and Mum with the empty pushchair.

And at school I fell off the climbing frame and bumped my head a bit while I was hanging upside down.  I had a bit of a stiff neck too, but nothing to worry about.

To give Mum some quiet time to be poorly in style we headed off out to the pet shop to have alook at the rabbits and the fish.

And to try out all the squeaky dog toys.  Most satisfying.  We had to go to Sainsbury's too to get a few things for pancakes.  We needed a lemon and some ice cream but I decided that a nice bunch of flowers would help Mum feel better so we got some of those too.

I refused the pancakes outright and settled for a load of Jaffa Cakes.

I really liked the idea of the pancakes, but decided I didn't really like them that much.  Dad arrived at a similar conclusion so we set about the ice cream instead.

Wednesday trampolining was super busy again.  I love it when there's loads of others there and I didn't even mention Bumpers once.

I had my multi skills after school again, I love it.

When we went to Tesco on Thursday we saw Ned's friend Tegan's Mum.  I thought that was really cool and a real one up on Ned.  She thought I was being a really good girl as I was quite happily walking round the shop helping Dad buy things.  Some of them he even actually needed.  Like the bright pink and purple dish washing brush, very him.

Friday night we went to play with Kimi and Marny for a bit while the grown ups did some boring stuff or another.  Was great fun and as it turned out a very late night.

Which meant we weren't supposed to be up to much on Saturday.  We had a slug-around morning and then headed off to look at cars again.  AGAIN!  Boring boring boring boring.

We went to have lunch in Sainsburys cafe afterwards and had a wander around Wantage town, exciting stuff eh?

We loved the jewellers shops and we got some new books though so that was good.

And I also got some free samples of some fancy cat food for my beloved Poppy, she loved it.

When we got home I wanted to put a little idea I had into practice.  I'd made a kite at breakfast club and wondered if the two fans we had in the garage would generate enough wind for me to fly it indoors:

And it did, of a fashion....once we'd put a weight in the bottom to stop it from spinning.

It was race day again on Sunday, I think you'll find this is how most premier athletes prepare for a big day of competition:

I couldn't wait to get on the track and do a few laps.  I did a few with Dad but shouted at him if he overtook me.

Another cool thing was seeing my name at the top of the table for the series after the last event, Ned Atkins, Male 7 years, 50 points, position number 1. 

I couldn't wait to get to the park!  I love the park, there's always other children to play with and loads of climbing to do.  Having said that I did insist on wearing a lovely dress so had to try and keep a bit clean.

Once i'd bored Mum and Dad senseless with the park my saviour arrived...ANDY!

I loved showing him round the place and took him on a track tour.  I had a bit of crash in practice, well I say a bit of a crash, I was t-boned by another boy when I sort of pulled out onto the track in front of him.  We both went down pretty hard and I was pretty upset with myself.  He was okay though so it was okay in the end.

We were soon up on the gate for the first race, but I was in for a hard time as I was in with the 8 year olds this time:

I was pretty well beaten in the first race to be honest, everyone tried to explain that there was no one in my category in the first heat and that I was still only six.  So I was okay with it and couldn't wait for my next one.  I did much better in that and came second, I was very pleased.

I shouted for Ned again of course, from before the race even started until well after it had finished.  Well, when i wasn't in the park anyway:

In my third heat I think I came 4th or fifth against another batch of eight year olds, so I was still pretty happy.  This was enough to see me through to the A final in the 8's, I put in another good race and finished well in front of the other seven year old getting myself another 50 points for the standings.  Another succesful trip I think.
We came home and had a monster hot chocolate session.  That put us off our tea a bit so it was a good job Alan and Hayley popped round to finish it off for us.

Big exciting grown up stuff for me on Tuesday when I got a new car seat.  I'm too big for my baby one now and i've got one just like Ned's.  I was seriously pleased about this and squealed with delight when I got it out of the box and parked my bum in it.

There was a world record ten children at trampolining this week, where do they go all the other weeks?  We can't work out whats going on with this one, but i'm always glad when theres plenty of other kids there for me to show off to with my bouncing skills.

We had art week at school last week, plenty of oppurtunities for me to get messy and creative as well as take in the mountain of 'recyled' materials we'd been collecting for a few weeks..  Multi sports club has also started again on Wednesday after school. I loved it this week, we played dodgeball outside, in the sunshine.

Friday then, once I was picked up from school the car got packed and we went to the Pasty shop to source some provisions before Mum finished work.  We hit the road for Colchester in readiness for Saturdays zoo trip.

That's right, a day early so we had to stay in a hotel!  We were proper excited about that one, we could lay in bed and watch telly and eat the sweets that we had bought with us...perfect.

Needless to say, it was quite late before we finally fell asleep.....

So in the morning we were up nice and early and made a visit to the restaurant area for our breakfast.  It was amazing, we could have whatever we wanted, I told the chef that it was brilliant and that we normally get what we're given in a caravan on a tent when we're away.

There was allsorts to choose from, but I started with coco pops and then followed that with some toast, a few slices of ham, some cheese and then some fruit.

I also went for the coco pops, followed by a pool of baked beans and then the most exciting thing of all....slices of brown bread.  I love brown bread and never get it at home so this was a real treat.  I was almost tempted to toast it as the toast machine was seriously cool to watch.

So once we were fed and watered we headed for the zoo, it was only three miles away so we were there really quickly which made a pleasant change from being stuck in the car asking are we there yet over and over again.

Pretty much the first animals we came across were the penguins, we love them because they remind us of Nanny.  She would have loved these ones, a right lively lot they were, darting all around the pool.

We compared ourselves to the relative size of penguin species:

Next up was the sealions I think, they had a really cool pool with a glass tunnel that went underneath them where you could stand and watch them swim over you.

As well as some lovely big windows. 

We just so happened to be there at their feeding time too, they put on quite a show, fetching like dogs and jumping right out of the water to catch fish.

The Orang-utang enclosure was pretty impressive too, even though I couldn't escape from it:

The most impressive thing about the zoo was probably the other things you could see, like these fish in the Orang-utang house:

Yeah, there were even little monkeys in the reptile house, just hanging about from the roof.  The best little monkeys were the ones that invaded an empty push chair though.  There must have been at least four or five of them in it, the lady who was pushing it was terrified of them.  We all thought it was hilarious of course.

I like to take some pictures on such outings, this was one of my best:

The anteaters were especially lovely, the Mummy one was giving the baby a ride round on her back and then they snuggled down together in their hole, she used her big bushy tail as a blanket for the little one.

There were also a couple of my favourites, flamingoes (pink) and of course the Meerkats:

There were three lions, one boy and two girls.  They were really big, I loved them.  The were also quite active, scratching their big tree trunk like poppy does at home against the end of the sofa.

There were loads of baby piggies hassling their mummy for milk, they were really cute.

I almost got eaten by a crocodile:

Made a joey of myself:

Tried out a turtle shell for size:

Probably the coolest thing of the day was feeding the elephants I reckon, it's not every day you get to do that is it?  They were of course huge, really really massive.  So massive in fact that I dropped my morsel before the trunk managed to get it:

After an initial refusal, I gave it another go and was really pleased with myself for going through with it:

Even if I did end up with a hand covered in elephant snot for my trouble.  It soon washed off though.

The giraffe house was cool, they had a viewing gallery up high so you could watch them eating their hay, they had really long tongues and would no doubt be brilliant at eating the super long spaghetti we have at home.

There was of course a train to ride on, it took us all round the lemur enclosures and past some Wolves and African hunting dogs.

That I particulalrly liked the look of.

Then it was on to the Tiger area which I loved.  I loved watching them pad past, especially when one had a big stretch right up against the window showing everyone his lovely fluffy tummy.  I decided I wanted to give them a cuddle.

That was until we got to see the Leopards and one of them took a dislike to us all peering at him and decided to come at us with a big scary growl.

I think we all decided it was the best zoo we'd ever been to, I was well and truly tired out and fell asleep in my buggy.

Leaving me to have a play in the adventure playground on my own before we headed back to the hotel for some more snuggle up time, saturday night telly and sweeties!

We went to sleep a lot quicker this time round though!

Sunday morning and the delights of another hotel breakfast for us before a trip to the swimming pool.

There were no slides or anything but there was a rather lovely hot tub that you could make foam bubble beards out of.

I was on a right mission and was doing whole lengths of the pool with my armbands.

And I managed a length of backstroke unaided.  I was pretty impressed with that and decided that I ought to resume swimming lessons......

Then it was back to the room to pack our things and check out.

Which gave me one more chance to creep along under the reception desk to avoid detection by the lady behind it as we left.  I'd been doing it every time we came in or went out, she loved it.

No one wanted to get up Monday morning.

I wanted to be back at the hotel........

First off, there's a few pictures that Alan took on our London trip last week. First up, outside the imperial war museum (that little speck in the middle is me!):

And here we are inside with the type of planes my Great Grandad used to work on during the war:

And here's one of me on the 'Shark Walk' at the London Aquarium, a glass floor with big sharks swimming about underneath...cool or what?

Dad took my buggy to work in the car on Wednesday morning, the fool. How was I supposed to get to nursery? In the long forgotten double buggy! I loved it, found it hilarious and enjoed the luxury of all that space. There was room for Ned too....

.....but I decided i'd rather ride my bike to Dragon club thanks Ellis. Dragon club was cool, we played table football and we got to play loads of Playstation on the cosy sofa. I was pretty disappointed when Dad came to pick me up at lunchtime if i'm honest, i'd love to have stayed all afternoon. Still, we went home and got the Playstation 2 games out that Dad has kept hidden from me for all these years. What a rotter, some of them were brilliant, we played shooting games, racing games and skateboarding games.

While I had a nice kip after a busy day at nursery.

We had a trip to the bowling alley with Dragon club on Thursday which was really cool. When we got back we had a game of football outside. I wasn't too bothered when Dad came to pick me up at lunchtime as we were going to see Mum for lunch (something I don't get to do when i'm at school).

We obviously disagreed about where we were going to go for lunch, I favoured the Pasty shop.

And I was hell bent on McDonalds.

Mum brokered a pretty impressive compromise though and we went to the Pasty shop first for my sausage roll...

.....and then headed for McDonalds for the rest of us.

It was such a nice day that Dad insisted we go outside in the afternoon rather than another Playstation session.

I suggested the Wash Common park, and after a small 'discussion' the verdict was unanimous, Wash Common park it was:

We went super high in the basket swing before I climbed all the way to the top of the big climbing frame:

Dad was a bit edgy to say the least, so once I was back down I made sure I went up again to help him get used to the idea that it was well within my capabilities and I wasn't going to fall.
The trampoline that's sunk into the ground was well and truly full of water, it was hilarious watching the bigger kids jump up and down on it and get soaking wet, especially the seat drops. Looked a bit cold though.

Yeah, we gave it a miss. We even had time for a quick Playstation session after the park, but it's okay, i'm not addicted or anything, honest.

What with it being half term and all our schedule was all up in the air so Dad and I were heading for Tesco on Friday afternoon.

I caught wind of this and didn't fancy going with them one little bit. I had a word with Mum and she arranged with Dragon Club so that I could stay on later than normal and miss the shopping trip hell. Result. I had a much better time, we did skateboarding, cake baking and even managed to squeeze in a little Playstation action.

We had a bike ride once we'd got home from the shops and picking Ned up. I always start off full of enthusiasm but pretty soon run out of steam.

It was very muddy down the lane, and there was loads of dog poo to ride through, not so good.

While we were waiting to pick Mum up from work I decided to have a good old puke and got myself and my car seat in a proper mess. Oops. It was rubbish as I was only allowed water and none of my beloved apple juice. I also had a bit of an incident in bed a bit later on as well.

So Saturday morning I wasn't really up to much and snuggled up on the sofa with my Hello Kitty blanket, it has wonderful healing qualities though and I was feeling okay by lunchtime.

I took the oppurtunity to get and build some quality Lego and managed to get Dad involved for a bit too.

We had a trip out in the car in the afternoon to go and look at getting another car, but we didn't see any we wanted and came home again. Exciting eh?

Sunday then, and in spite of the weather forecast it was race day! Proper race day this time, the first round of the Gosport BMX club Summer series (optimistic lot aren't they?). We even had to travel in old school mode as Andy had borrowed the sat nav for his holiday, Mum's navigational skills are awesome though so we arrived safely, even though Dad tried to make us go the wrong way.

As soon as the bike was out of the car I was off for a few practice laps, I even managed to get Dad to ride round with me. He didn't need much persuading to be honest.

Mum took me to the adjoinig park and i made friends with a boy called Tom. We had a great time climbing and walking over the bridges. Best of all though was Tom's dog, he pushed us round in the roundabout, how cool is that?

I decided I wanted to show Mum how cool I was at riding the track, so made her stand on the second corner. She got there just in time to see me get a bit of a wobble on and hit the ground, hard. She helped me off the track and we had a little cuddle before retireing to the car to start on the picnic to recuperate. The weather took a turn for the worse and it started to rain quite heavily. Everyone else seemed to clear off to their cars and abandon practice. Not me and a select band of three others who kept on plugging away (we were all about the same age). I told Dad it was good practice. Dad had signed me up and pretty soon the race schedule was posted on the board. The rain seemed to ease off a bit just in time. I was in the 7 year old catgeory and was in gate two (near the inside, my favourite) of the very first race. We had to line up in the pens before hand:

Notice my Lightning McQueen inspired 95 number plate? A blast of Prodigy came over the PA as we moved up to the gate. It was really cool to hear the announcer call my name out. I got all lined up and ready to go and waited for the gate to drop. We were soon underway, I had a great start, straight into the lead:

And managed to stay there all the way to the end!

Me and Mum were screaming at him to pedal as we watched him. We were so proud that he won.

And I was pretty pleased too! I couldn't really believe it, I don't think Dad could either, I think he something in his eye?

For race two I had lane five, and once again got another great start, I got the lead into the first turn and pulled out an even bigger gap than the previous race. Two wins out of two anyone?
Mum and I did our usual screaming from the side lines of course.

I did concess that I think that they're screaming played a vital part of my victory.

Race three then, I had gate seven on the outside. As we lined up we were the race behind the fastest grown ups. I watched what they did to try and pick up some tips, my goodness they were fast, wheelieing all the way down the start ramp and flying over the first jump.

The it was our race, I gave the boy to my outside the thumbs up before we started as he looked a bit nervous.

It was business as usual, I took the lead form the start:

And crossed the line first again, three out of three in my heats:

Not bad for a first timer eh?

There was a bit of a wait before finals time which allowed the weather to get proper nasty with hail stones and all sorts. I was a bit worried there would be no one to race when everyone scurried back to their cars. It soon eased off though and the finals were announced. We were up first and I got my pick of the gates. I plumped for gate two near the inside again. I didn't get it all my own way this time though and finished a close second. I was a bit quiet initially, but soon realised i'd done really well and was pleased with how i'd done. I'm entirely sure about my final finishing position though as there were some merged age groups for the finals.

I wanted to ride some more but Mum, Dad and Ellis were pretty keen to get home. The let me have one last lap.

So that was my first proper race meeting done and dusted. I was muddy, soggy, cold and tired but I loved every minute of it.

And here I am, the calm before the vomit storm:

I thought i'd end the weekend in the same way as i'd started it, with a good old puke. A lovely cheese baugette puke all over myself and most of the car interior. We had to stop for Mum to try and clear me up the best she could (i'd already used my spare clothes for the day getting muddy at the track). For good measure I had another little go just as we pulled into our road, lovely.

It didn't put me off my well earned hot chocolate, heavily topped with marsh mallows and a crushed up flake bar though:

Back to school today, and I told everyone I came accross about my racing exploits, i'll get as boring as Dad before long.

It all kicked off after tea tonight, Ned was taking on all comers with his sword while I was dressed up as a doctor, ready to tend Ned's slain victims wounds.

We made a pretty good team actually....